Mother of Invention: Why including women is the missing key to innovation

Name: Mother of Invention: Why including women is the missing key to innovation
Start: 2021-03-08T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2021-03-08T12:00:00+00:00

March 8, 2021 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Why didn’t we get wheels on suitcases until 1972? Why were electric cars considered “feminine” when they first arrived more than 100 years ago? How come a bra making company created the suit Neil Armstrong wore to the moon?

Hear Katrine Marçal talk about why the future will be shaped by companies that dare to think differently about women and inclusion.

The talk will be held in English.

About Katrine Marçal:

Katrine is a well-renowned Swedish writer, journalist and speaker. She currently writes for the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

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Date:: March 8, 2021
Time:: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Trailblazers in Computing : Karen Spärck Jones 💻✨

Every time you search online and find exactly what you need, you’re benefiting from the groundbreaking work of Karen Spärck Jones.

Long before modern search engines existed, this Cambridge professor pioneered research in information retrieval and natural language processing. Her development of inverse document frequency (IDF) became a core foundation for how search engines rank results today.

A recipient of major honors from Association for Computing Machinery and the British Computer Society, she was not only a brilliant researcher but also a powerful advocate for equality in tech — famously stating: “Computing is too important to be left to men.”

Discover her full story here: https://acmweurope.acm.org/trailblazers-in-computing-karen-sparck-jones/

#TrailblazersInComputing #WomenInTech #AI #SearchEngines #HistoryOfComputing

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Diversity” is often talked about - but how much of it is actually practiced?

In this blog, Ayesha Afzal reflects on how HPC systems thinking can offer a useful lens for understanding inclusion, visibility, and participation in computing communities.

👉 https://acmweurope.acm.org/is-diversity-in-hpc-still-just-a-buzzword/

#Diversity #Tech #InclusionMatters #WomenInSTEM

“Research Spotlights in Computing” is a technical blog series by ACM-W Europe volunteer Ayesha Afzal, highlighting contemporary work across computing research, with a focus on systems, tools, methods, and ideas developed by women in the field. This first blog anchors the series by introducing a ...

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