CRRL Picks - Great Lives 2020 - Female Internet InventorsLike this list

12 items

• The William B. Crawley Great Lives Lecture Series

  View on umw.edu

  Biography is the most intimate approach to history - and the most entertaining. UMW’s Great Lives lecture series reveals how extraordinary people – some born to privilege and power, others from modest backgrounds – shaped art, literature,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ada's Algorithm

  How Lord Byron's Daughter Ada Lovelace Launched the Digital Age

  Essinger, James, 1957-

  Add Ada's Algorithm to your for later shelf

  A biography of Ada Lovelace, an 1800s mathematician who is considered to be the first computer programmer due her creation of the first computer algorithm.

• Ada's Ideas

  the Story of Ada Lovelace, the World's First Computer Programmer

  Robinson, Fiona, 1965-

  Add Ada's Ideas to your for later shelf

  A picture book biography of mathematician Ada Lovelace, considered to be the first computer programmer.

• Code Girls

  the Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II

  Mundy, Liza, 1960-

  Add Code Girls to your for later shelf

  A history of the American women who worked as code breakers by utilizing mathematics, pattern recognition, and algorithms.

• A Computer Called Katherine

  How Katherine Johnson Helped Put America on the Moon

  Slade, Suzanne

  Add A Computer Called Katherine to your for later shelf

  A children's biography of mathematician Katherine Johnson.

• Hidden Figures

  the American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race

  Lee Shetterly, Margot

  Add Hidden Figures to your for later shelf

  A history of Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory's "West Computing" group of African American women mathematicians in Virginia. It is available in multiple formats (eBook, audio, book club kit) and is also available in multiple…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• How Did That Get to My House? Internet

  Chmielewski, Gary, 1949-

  Add How Did That Get to My House? Internet to your for later shelf

  Part of a series of books for children describing how significant inventions and technologies are available to them every day.

• How the Internet Happened

  From Netscape to the iPhone

  McCullough, Brian

  Add How the Internet Happened to your for later shelf

  This story begins in 1993 when a group of college kids working in a basement developed what would become the first "dotcom." Follow the innovations that brought us to where we are today. Also available to download on audio.

• The Innovators

  How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

  Isaacson, Walter

  Add The Innovators to your for later shelf

  Isaacson begins his narrative with Ida Lovelace and follows the history through such pioneers as Alan Turing, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Larry Page. Also available as an eBook.

• Instructions Not Included

  How a Team of Women Coded the Future

  Brown, Tami Lewis

  Add Instructions Not Included to your for later shelf

  A history written for children about computing innovators Jean Jennings Bartik, Kay McNulty Mauchly, and Betty Snyder Holberton, who programmed the early computer ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer).

• Tubes

  a Journey to the Center of the Internet

  Blum, Andrew

  Add Tubes to your for later shelf

  Tech journalist Andrew Blum explains the extraordinary hardware and engineering behind the Internet and shares interviews with many of its components' designers.

• The Women Who Launched the Computer Age

  Calkhoven, Laurie

  Add The Women Who Launched the Computer Age to your for later shelf

  The true story of six women who programmed the ENIAC computer as part of a secret WWII mission. Part of the Ready-to-Read series for children.