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Alison Young Pull Quotes
Alison joined Unitec New Zealand in 1997 as Head of School of Computing and Information Technology. Alison was Chair of the National Advisory Committee on Computing Qualifications from 1988 until 1998 and has chaired national and international conferences including General Chair of the NACCQ Annual conference in 2006. Alison's recent research projects include: women and computing, e-learning implementation, computing and information technology education and the Poverty Alleviation Project in Peru. She is a Fellow of the NZCS and the NACCQ.
This webpage gives excerpts taken from the interview of Alison Young conducted on the 28th of February 2006 in Houston, Texas by Barbara Boucher Owens The entire interview and transcript are also available from here.
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Alison Young
Head of School of Computing and Information Technology,
Unitec, New Zealand
Vice chair ACM SIGCSE and ACM Ed Council Member New Zealand Computing Educator of the Century 2002 14 mb mp3 interview opens in new window pdf interview transcript opens in new window |
[Early leadership] But my father must have seen some sort of I'll call it leadership ability early on in me, or maybe we just call it bossiness, and so when I didn't make the top netball team (read basketball here), he actually guided me into refereeing and I became the youngest New Zealand referee for women's netball at 16. Link to this audio snippet in new window [How she got into computing] Now where we lived was 35 miles from the big city even though our high school was one of the biggest in the whole of the country, because it was out of Auckland, out of the big city, going to Auckland to the big city in the 60's was a big deal. And my mother was the greatest shopper ever. And I loved shopping and I loved going shopping with Mom. So here I am 16 years old, 17 years old just turned 17 and I got the opportunity of going to the big city shopping with my mother for a day. I would sit any aptitude test or any stupid test that they want me to sit if I can go shopping, take a day off school and go shopping with my mother. Link to this audio snippet in new window |
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