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"Albert Einstein called her the most “significant” and “creative” female mathematician of all time,..." 9 Aug 2013 | 02:06 am
“Albert Einstein called her the most “significant” and “creative” female mathematician of all time, and others of her contemporaries were inclined to drop the modification by sex. She invented a theor...
The Feminine Side of Game Design: 10 Female Game Designers - Slideshow from PCMag.com 7 Aug 2013 | 11:11 pm
The Feminine Side of Game Design: 10 Female Game Designers - Slideshow from PCMag.com
"A Guardian article, written in 1964, quoted in “Dinosaur and Co", about Shirley and the early..." 6 Aug 2013 | 09:47 pm
“A Guardian article, written in 1964, quoted in “Dinosaur and Co", about Shirley and the early IT industry: “The main qualification is personality…Much of the work is tedious, requiring great attenti...
"297 girls sat the Computing A level in 2012 compared to 3512 boys: http://bit.ly/14gGWjm" 6 Aug 2013 | 09:08 pm
“297 girls sat the Computing A level in 2012 compared to 3512 boys: http://bit.ly/14gGWjm” - Twitter / WestminBriefing: @unstuckthinking Couldn’t find …
"[Zeebox] The second-screen app will now recognise when you’re watching something after the..." 1 Aug 2013 | 02:01 am
“[Zeebox] The second-screen app will now recognise when you’re watching something after the fact, and resurrect the tweets that went along with it, as if it were live.” - Zeebox update adds ‘replay t...
(via Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History - Alexis C.... 1 Aug 2013 | 01:32 am
(via Not Even Silicon Valley Escapes History - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic)
"Rich’s Guide to Santa Clara County’s Silicon Valley in 1983…. I discovered a copy..." 1 Aug 2013 | 01:31 am
“ Rich’s Guide to Santa Clara County’s Silicon Valley in 1983…. I discovered a copy of this rare book in Berkeley’s library system and realized that it was a fantastic dataset: If I stuck all of the...
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"project re:DDS is an attempt to reconstruct the DDS. De Digitale Stad (DDS), the Digital City, was..." 1 Aug 2013 | 12:31 am
“project re:DDS is an attempt to reconstruct the DDS. De Digitale Stad (DDS), the Digital City, was one of the first online community network that operated on an European scale. DDS was founded in the...
"The radiation-mapping project launched shortly after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster recently..." 25 Jul 2013 | 09:30 pm
“The radiation-mapping project launched shortly after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster recently surpassed more than ten million data points, all gathered by a network of local volunteers” - Vol...
