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"Profiles of women engineers and coders who overcame obstacles to become leading voices in their fields. Each profile presents the subject's challenges and career path while exploring global themes of gender-based disenfranchisement-and empowerment-in STEM fields. The work presents itself as both a guide for girls who want to go into these areas as well as an appeal to those who don't think they would find them interesting or who might feel discouraged...
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Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation--they've just been erased from the story. Until now. Women are not ancillary to the history of technology; they turn up at the very beginning of every important wave. But they've often been hidden in plain sight, their...
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2023
Language
English
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"The moving memoir of a girl coming of age as an immigrant in America who finds her calling as a scientist at the forefront of the AI/Machine Learning revolution. Fei-Fei Li is known to the world as the creator of ImageNet, a key catalyst of modern artificial intelligence (AI). But her career in science was improbable from the start. Moving from China's middle class to American poverty, her family navigated the hardships of immigrant life while struggling...
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Firebrand Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
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English
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Lesbian Alice receives a visit from Phoebe, her guardian angel who wants to learn human feelings, including sexuality. When she learns enough, Phoebe dictates a story which Alice writes, and as Phoebe is an angel the characters magically come to life.
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Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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True story of six women who programmed the ENIAC computer as part of a secret WWII mission. They learned to program the computer without any software, instructions or tools (none existed.). --
The story of Jean Jennings, Kay McNulty, Frances Bilas, Ruth Lichterman, Betty Snyder, and Marlyn Wescoff, who were chosen to work on the ENIAC computer.
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[2019]
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English
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"An unforgettable story of four women who came to California to try to make it in a world stacked against them. Through grit and ingenuity, the women became stars in cutthroat, high-stakes, male dominated Silicon Valley and helped build some of the most important companies of our day. They were written out of history - until now. In Alpha Girls, award-winning journalist Julian Guthrie takes readers behind the closed doors of venture capital, an industry...
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