#CfP for the #panel "The Invisible Orientation: The Effacement of Asexuality", which will take place at the Northeast Modern Languages Association (#NeMLA#northeastMLA) convention in Boston on March 7-10, 2024.
#CfP for the #panel "Spare, (Almost) Never Heir: Girls, Second Sons and Other Fantastic Creatures", which will take place at the Northeast Modern Languages Association (#NeMLA#northeastMLA) convention in Boston on March 7-10, 2024.
As a social historian of tech tired of hype & innovation/invention-speak & "fathers" & "godfathers" of AI, & as one who greatly values HCI, des, dev & debugging maintenance work & highlighting gender & women's history of software, I for one am still waiting for Mothers of Maintenance lost tapes.
CBI Image o' Day. A 1969 note from Grace Hopper to Jack Jones, US Air Force on their CODASYL work & COBOL’s creation by her, Jean Sammet, Jones, +others. Hopper is suggesting important contributors to CODASYL who were at the '59 demo, to invite for the '69 COBOL 10th Anniversary Celebration including Alan Taylor who had become Editor of then new magazine Computerworld.
Like many early automobile companies, Anderson Electric Car Company, founded in 1907, had long been a carriage & buggy company prior. It chose to produce electric cars not gas pwrd.
"Cleaner" Electrics, like the Detroit Electric here in Nov. 1917, were often marketed to upper class women (as avoid the chauffer) & during WWI w/ a "be patriotic" angle.