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This web site which contains artifacts of the
computing culture: the nonacademic literature such as best-selling
books, movies, TV shows, electronic lists and even jokes. Though most of
these computing artifacts are not aimed strictly at women,
understanding the culture is more critical for women in computer
science where personal and academic computing tend to merge. In
particular, so much of computing is learned outside the formal
classroom setting.
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Gopher: gopher://acm.org/
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Search the ACM Calendar of Events
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Articles of specific interest:
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Metaguide is an annotated list of Internet sites and collections related to
business, women's issues and organizations, feminized professions,
employment, general subject-searching, and current events (electronic
newspapers).
Caltech Women's Center
The Caltech Women's Center was founded in 1993 to work for the advancement
of women in science and engineering. The Center works to supports the
central mission of the California Institute of Technology, which is to
promote the education and development of all scientists and engineers.
The Caltech Women's Center operates as a central meeting place, information
resource, program center, and support for the entire Caltech community.
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CBI is a research center at the University of Minnesota dedicated
to promoting the study and preservation of the history of information
processing. As part of its mission, CBI maintains an archival collection
available for use by the public. This collection includes oral history
interviews of prominent computer scientists, engineers, and industrialists.
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DIMACS is a national research center, funded by the National Science
Foundation. It is a joint project, whose direct participants are
Rutgers University, Princeton University, AT&T Bell Labs, and
BellCore. This site has information about DIMACS, as well as
several pointers to technical information, and links to related
WEB pages.
CSAM's goal is to encourage women to enter the field of computing. To
this end, they maintain a scholarship that provides money to in-state
resident women at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who are
pursuing a career related to Computer Science by earning an
undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or
through the Independent Concentration Program.
Educom is a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of colleges and universities
seeking to transform education through the use of information technology.
The site provides summaries and archives of news items on information
technology, listings of conferences, and more.
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FeMiNa is a comprehensive World Wide Web based directory and
information resource containing information exclusively for and
about women and girls online. It is searchable, and contains a wide
array of topics.
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Maintained by the Computing Research Association, this is a
list of all Ph.D.-granting departments of computer science and computer
engineering.
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An extensive listing of publicly-accessible electronic forums (or "lists")
related to women or to gender issues.
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More info on the SDE/GWIS organization.
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The Guerrilla Girls are a group of women artists who make posters
relating to discrimination. See their Internet Poster.
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``Her Interactive,'' a division of American Laser Games, is developing
live-action software specifically for girls. Patricia Flanagan,
Executive Director of ``Her Interactive,'' believes that girls would use
computers more if games were designed just for them. Check out their
web site to learn about their first product, McKenzie & Co., a 5-CD-ROM game
featuring an adventure at an American high school. ``Her Interactive'' also
runs Her
Online, a web site specifically designed for girls.
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Herspace provides links to hundreds of sites of interest to women
including a good section on women in computing and women and technology.
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The NASA WWW site includes information about
Research Programs and
Minority Programs,
as well as information about each NASA Center.
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This multimedia collection contains descriptions of some of the
10,000 scientific research projects that have used the resources of
National Science Foundation supercomputing centers. The reports range
from astronomy to zoology, and include scientific breakthroughs on black
holes, how the heart works, pollution control, and modelling the oceans.
All reports have images, and many also are accompanied by animations and sound.
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The K-12 Resources folder has a Math/Science/Technology
folder that has much valuable information.
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ONR carries out its research in naval laboratories and through grants and
contracts with universities, industry, and non-profit organizations.
ONR places strong emphasis on university research.
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A searchable directory of organizations from the
National Academy of Sciences.
Includes groups in
Computer Science,
Engineering, and many other scientific and Engineering disciplines.
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``Discovering Women'' Follows Female Scientists to the Corners
of the World
A six-part series narrated by Michelle Pfeiffer on
PBS.
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A broad educational site with information about schools, financial aid, jobs
and more. Specific information about
schools
with Computer Science programs as well as many other fields of study.
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A World Wide Web site for women. Features include
an illustrated guide to the Internet; directories of women's organizations,
resources, and businesses; calendar of events; job listings and
discussion groups.
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Includes general information for women online as well as some specific
pointers to women in science and technology resources.
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Enter "women" as the search keyword.
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Information about obtaining student loans, newsletters for financial aid
and students, etc.
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This database contains information about many engineering disciplines,
including
Computer Engineering.
The Southeastern University and College Coalition
for Engineering EDucation (SUCCEED)
consists of nine southeastern universities engineering colleges
committed to a comprehensive revitalization of undergraduate engineering
education for the 21st Century. SUCCEED is one of several other coalitions
involving more than thirty two institutions that comprises the National
Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Education Coalitions Program.
See also the Florida SUCCEED
pages for pointers to Engineering departments involved in the project.
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Washington State University has created a Virtual Science Fair,
open to projects from students around the nation, that exists on the World
Wide Web. Student projects are proposed and presented on the Web for
everyone to visit. The projects won't be shown until November, however,
the site is open for registration of projects, and lots of information and
dialogue about the fair is being posted every day.
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Virtual Sisterhood, a global women's electronic support network, is
dedicated to strengthening and magnifying the impact of feminist
organizing through promotion of electronic communications use within
the global women's movement.
``If you are a woman with WWW development skills, particularly if you work
with CGI scripts and search engines, Virtual Sisterhood needs your help.
Please contact vsister@igc.apc.org to offer your assistance, or to find
out more about what we're up to.''
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A collection of women's pages and pointers to other collections
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Listings of prominent women in politics and other "women's resources"
web sites. (Part of the
Women
Leaders Online site.)
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``Women in Multimedia'' is a web site by the Oregon Multimedia
Alliance, highlighting the contributions of women to the world of
multimedia. The site includes interviews with women in multimedia and
the computing industry, an online mentoring program for women in
multimedia, facts about women in computing, and links to other online
resources.
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The "Women of NASA" project is an opportunity for teachers to
introduce their students to the exciting world of math and science
through the eyes of women working at NASA in various disciplines.
These women provide a link between the real-world and what students
are actually learning in the classroom.
Local info: Women of NASA
Web site: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/women/hpage.html
Gopher site: quest.arc.nasa.gov (go to Interactive Projects directory)
Mailing List:
To receive updates on the project send Email to: listmanager@quest.arc.nasa.gov
In the message body, write: subscribe updates-won
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Women Online is a Macintosh and Internet consulting referral service
for women in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Pointers to Web and gopher resources for women.
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Pointers to Web resources for women.
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Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois
Women's Studies, University of Wisconsin Gopher
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WOMEN'SPACE is a women's newsletter which is based in Nova Scotia, Canada.
The newsletter was started to bridge the gap between those women who were
already involved in organizing on the Internet, and those women who are
centred in community organizing but are not as yet online.
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NOEMA: The Collaborative Bibliography of Women in Philosophy. This
bibliography is a project in collaborative scholarship which began on June
22nd, 1995 and has grown to over 3,300 entries on over nine hundred
authors. Visitors to the site can search by author, title or other criteria.
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The purpose of the Women in Technology Directory is to facilitate and
encourage women's ability to network with one another. The directory is
designed to provide information that women can use to collaborate, mentor,
and advance their careers.
You can search the directory, and also submit your own information to the
directory.
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Women's Way is a place to find information, entertainment,
and ideas for women on the World Wide Web. Features include media reviews
and a cooking column.
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A March, 1995 article from Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine
describing the state of women on the web and including some pointers to
women's web sites.
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