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Karen Spärck Jones

Following on from our Ada Lovelace Day post last month, in the office we have been researching other women who have had a major impact on our industry over the years.  We have each chosen a different woman to introduce over the coming months. First up was chosen by Kerry, who selected Karen Spärck Jones. Jones championed the […]

Karen Spärck Jones
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Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating Women in Tech

Today is Ada Lovelace Day (ALD). ALD was launched in 2009 by Suw Charman-Anderson as a response to the lack of women on stage at tech conferences. She realised however that the issue wasn’t so much the lack of women in the industry, but their invisibility. One of the aims of ALD is to increase […]

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Becoming an instructor for Code First: Girls

Earlier this year, I went to Front End North, a conference for web developers which ran at the City Hall. One of the speakers was Tejay White, who mentioned during her talk that Code First: Girls (CFG) were looking for instructors. I arranged to meet Tejay for a cuppa and to find out more. Tejay […]

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