All About TAP

• Purpose of TAP

• TAP was developed by: Elisabeth Freeman and Susanne Hupfer, Yale University, New Haven, CT

• History of TAP:
  • July 1, 1994: The TAP site was opened and announced.

  • March 5, 1995: TAP became an official volunteer project of the ACM Committee on the Status of Women.

    This committee, currently chaired by Dr. Amy Pearl (Sun Microsystems), supports volunteer projects on women's issues in computer science. Current projects also include the NSF mentoring project, Women in Computing Academic Resources (WCAR), and the Employment database project. Previous activities of the committee have included sponsoring the Grace Hopper Conference, and the January 1995 special issue of the CACM on women in computing.

• Usage Statistics:

  July 1, 1994 - May 16, 1995:
  TAP was accessed from 7333 unique sites
  There were 32112 total accesses to TAP pages
  There were 8608 total accesses to the top-most TAP page

• Articles about TAP:
  • Freeman, Elisabeth and Hupfer, Susanne. TAP: Tapping Internet Resources for Women in Computer Science, Society of Women Engineers Hartford Section newsletter, August 1997.

  • Freeman, Elisabeth and Hupfer, Susanne. The Ada Project: A Web Site for Women in Computing, Educom Review, March/April, 1996. (Scroll down the page.)

    (Educom is a Washington, D.C.-based consortium of leading colleges and universities seeking to transform education through the use of information technology.)

  • Moran, John. A Matter of Survival: Web Site Seeks to Reverse Women's Declining Interest in Computer Science, The Hartford Courant, Dec. 28, 1995.
    Also appeared in:
    The News and Observer, Raleigh, NC, Jan. 2, 1996
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Jan. 7, 1996
    Fort Worth Star-Telegram
    Montreal Gazette, Jan. 8, 1996
    The Journal Gazette, Fort Wayne, IN, Jan. 30, 1996

  • Shelton, Jim. Woman-Friendly: Yale Grad Students Create a Place on the World Wide Web Where Women Can Learn and Share Computer Info, New Haven Register, Sept. 25, 1995. (View Photo)

  • Freeman, Elisabeth and Hupfer, Susanne, TAP: The Ada Project. Tapping Internet Resources for Women in Computer Science, Yale Omnibus Computing Newspaper, Sept. 1995.

  • Freeman, Elisabeth and Hupfer, Susanne, TAP: Tapping Internet Resources for Women in Computing, Communications of the ACM, Jan. 1995, Vol. 38, No. 1, p. 44.

• Places TAP has received mention:
  • TAP is listed at the Microsoft Museum.
  • TAP is rated a gold site by NetGuide. (See the review.)
  • TAP is rated in the top 5% by Point Communications. (See Women's Resources.)

  • TAP is rated a 3-star site by the Magellan Internet Guide. (See the review.)

  • Maier, Thomas. Girl Talk: Boys, Music and the Web. Newsday, February 20, 1996.

  • Ligh, Peter. Females make up only seven of 68 computer science majors. Yale Daily News, January 30, 1996, New Haven, CT.

  • DeBare, Ilana. Women in Computing: Logged On or Left Out?. A Sacramento Bee Special Report, Jan. 21, 1996.

  • Engler, Natalie. Women Helping Women: Making Connections, Women in Computing in 1996: A Special Report of the McGraw-Hill Companies, January 1996.

  • Named "Cool Website of the Week" by The Times Union, Albany, NY, Jan. 10, 1996

  • Women's Voices. NetGuide Magazine, Dec. 1, 1995.

  • Ruiting, Liu. PC Magazine Chinese Edition, Dec. 1995. (TAP is mentioned in an article about Ada Lovelace, Grace Hopper, and other women of computer science, including Chinese women of computer science.)

  • Web Welcomes Women: Offerings Belie "Men-Only" Image, Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 9, 1995.

  • Llanos, Miguel. Women's Resources Available on Major Online Services, The Seattle Times, July 9, 1995.

  • TAP was in June, 1995.

  • Graduate Women in Science magazine, Spring 1995.

  • The Uphill Struggle: No Rose Garden for Women in Engineering, IEEE Spectrum, May 1995. pp. 40-50.

  • Connecticut magazine, May 1995, p. 45.

  • King, Elizabeth. U.S. Women Cutting Swath in Cyberspace, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, March 6, 1995.

  • IEEE "The Institute" (supplement to IEEE Spectrum), Vol. 18, No. 9, Dec. 1994.

  • Association for Women in Mathematics newsletter, Sept. 1994.

  • Elmegreen, Debra, editor. American Astronomical Society (AAS) Committee on the Status of Women newsletter, July 14, 1994.

  • Scout Report, July 8, 1994. (The Scout Report is a weekly publication offered by InterNIC Information Services to the US research and education community; it highlights selected online resources and network news.)

  • EDUCOM Listserv, July 1994.

  • Women in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering (WICSE) newsletter, U.C. Berkeley, July 1994.

• TAP appears in the following Internet-related books:
  • Laurel Gilbert and Crystal Kile, Surfergrrrls : Look Ethel! an Internet Guide for Us!, Seal Press Feminist Publishing, 1996.

  • New Riders' Official World Wide Web Yellow Pages, Macmillan Publishing, 1996 edition.

  • Deemer, Charles. Secrets of the Webmasters, Resolution Business Press, 1996.

  • Powell, Bob, and Wickre, Karen. Atlas to the World Wide Web, Ziff-Davis Press, 1995.

  • The Internet Yellow Pages, Second Edition, Osborne McGraw-Hill, January 1995.

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