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Joyce Currie Little Pull Quotes
Joyce Currie Little is Professor, Computer and Information Sciences at Towson University in Towson, Maryland. She has had a varied career--Testing Engineer at Convair Aircraft, (and she related her experiences of that time in a program on the History of Programming made by BBC television). Computer Center Director at Goucher College, founding chairperson of departments of computer and information sciences at both the Community College of Baltimore and Towson University. Her teaching within the field of Computer Science ranges from the fundamentals of practical application to meta-analyis of the field itself.
This webpage gives excerpts taken from the interview of Joyce Currie Little conducted on the 5th of October 2006 in San Diego, California by Barbara Boucher Owens. The entire interview and transcript are also available from here.
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Joyce Currie Little
Towson University, Maryland
ACM Fellow, recipient of 1997 ACM distinguished service award 2006 SIGCSE Award for Lifetime Service 18 mb mp3 interview opens in new window pdf interview transcript opens in new window 5 mb video snippet March 08 opens in new window |
"Well, it turns out that in the 1940's when the ENIAC was being built at the University of Pennsylvania, for some reason Mauchly and Eckert got women mathematicians to do the programming. And of course there is a lot of talk about whether or not it was because all the men were gone off to war -- that was in World War II or whether it was some other reason, but they consistently hired women to do the programming. Yeah, so it turns out the people at Convair had actually done research as to who was going to be active in this new field that was arising. I was hired in 1957 and so it turns out that they had read research, psychological findings and workplace findings that women were supposed to be specially good at detail. " Link to this audio snippet in new window |
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