The IT Girl by Ann Moffatt
This is a remarkable book. It is frank, insightful and at times hard hitting.
It traces the life, loves and career path, in UK and Australia, of a courageous and very competent woman from the earliest days of the computer age, through to the current times.
A letter to my younger self, Ann Moffatt
This is an extract from Ann Moffatt’s book, The IT Girl, which is to be published in November 2020.
A letter to my younger self, Helen Vorrath
So you’ve decided to become an IT professional when you grow up? Good choice! You’ve already discovered the satisfaction of getting a program to work – that will continue to excite you for the rest of your life. You’ll also find that debugging the things that don’t work is equally rewarding.
Gender no barrier for Dr Skaidrite Darius
This graduation season, we are proud to announce that Skaidrite Darius has received an honorary doctorate from the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science.
A legacy of computing excellence – Jan Kornweibel
From the start she thrived on this new technology that used abstract logic, and still relishes looking back at those early,
adventurous days with all card systems and low-level programming languages.
THE RISE AND FALL OF SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING IN AUSTRALIA
Following the invention and development of the transistor in the late1940’s in the USA, the CSIRO began research into semiconductors.
The IT Girl by Ann Moffatt
This is a remarkable book. It is frank, insightful and at times hard hitting.
It traces the life, loves and career path, in UK and Australia, of a courageous and very competent woman from the earliest days of the computer age, through to the current times.
A letter to my younger self, Ann Moffatt
This is an extract from Ann Moffatt’s book, The IT Girl, which is to be published in November 2020.
A letter to my younger self, Helen Vorrath
So you’ve decided to become an IT professional when you grow up? Good choice! You’ve already discovered the satisfaction of getting a program to work – that will continue to excite you for the rest of your life. You’ll also find that debugging the things that don’t work is equally rewarding.
Gender no barrier for Dr Skaidrite Darius
This graduation season, we are proud to announce that Skaidrite Darius has received an honorary doctorate from the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science.
A legacy of computing excellence – Jan Kornweibel
From the start she thrived on this new technology that used abstract logic, and still relishes looking back at those early,
adventurous days with all card systems and low-level programming languages.
THE RISE AND FALL OF SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING IN AUSTRALIA
Following the invention and development of the transistor in the late1940’s in the USA, the CSIRO began research into semiconductors.
SNOCOM and CIRRUS
Sixty years ago Australians designed and built two of the first transistorised computers called SNOCOM and CIRRUS. They were very advanced for their era.
The Role of the ICT Community in the Future Resilience and Self-Reliance of Australia
On August 9th the Pearcey Foundation hosted a Conversation on the Role of the ICT Community in the Future Resilience and Self-reliance of Australia.
The world’s biggest non-IBM IBM network
Nobody much remembers it now, but 40 years ago Australia built one of the world’s largest computer networks. In 1981 Australia’s Department of Social Security (DSS) began planning an ambitious network to connect all of its 210 Australian offices in real time. The plan...
Girls, computers and rocket science.
Barbara Ainsworth, Monash Museum of Computing History, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University.
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