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Diversity

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In January of this year, at CES, Intel announced a US$ 300 million fund to promote diversity in technology.

I’m only going to comment on this with two photographs.

The first one is from around 1940 and shows two of the women who were the original ENIAC programmers:

The second photograph is more interesting, because it really does show gender and racial diversity: we see Grace Hopper with her team working on the UNIVAC I:

At what point did computing lose its diversity?

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