The latest history is full of stories about male visionaries working in a garage on inventions that changed the face of the world. But the visionary women who have always pioneered new technologies are rarely remembered, from the Victorian aristocrat Ada Lovelace, author of the first computer program, to cyberpunk-inspired web developers in the 1990s.
Claire L. Evans is passionate about the women who enable us to use the Internet today, restoring their rightful place in history. We meet, among others, Grace Hopper, an uncompromising mathematician who democratized programming after World War II by introducing a programming language independent of computer architecture, Stacy Horn, who in the 1980s managed the world's first social network from her apartment in New York, and Elizabeth "Jake "Feinler, which made the Internet more than just a collection of IP addresses.
You will find the book, among others in the bookstore of the Jagiellonian University Publishing House
Written with a great sense of humor, the book Evans not only reveals to us the hitherto unknown female face of the history of the Internet, but also presents its characters as models of competent, tough and independent women of the 21st century.
The pioneers of the Internet are a paean to the women who built the motherboard and other essential parts of the computer ... It's a collection of captivating essays about the lives of little-known mathematicians, inventors and cyber activists.
It's worth it!
Evans is an insightful and intelligent observer of reality ... Her book is a guide to cyberspace, written from a female perspective,
much needed nowadays.
New York Times
A collection of captivating stories about the women who contributed to the digital industry.
Wall Street Journal
In her inspirational book, Claire Evans documents the invaluable contribution of many women to the founding of the Internet.
Scientific American
We invite you to read an excerpt from the book: This uncompromising mathematician revolutionized programming
and with the article Without these women, there would be no Internet. Who were the pioneers of the digital industry?