2020-02-23
“Ask people to imagine a scientist, and many of us will picture the same thing - a heterosexual white male.” https://www.bbc.com/...
BBC Future
Profile of computer scientist Xia Peisu, who is called the “Mother of Chinese Computing” for shaping some of China's first computer science institutions
& a new field of computer science to support that industry—China needed trained personnel. Here, too, Xia was essential.” —@leilasedai on Xia Peisu (via @BBC_Future) https://www.bb...
2020-02-22
“Ask people to imagine a scientist, and many of us will picture the same thing - a heterosexual white male.” https://www.bbc.com/...
BBC Future
Profile of computer scientist Xia Peisu, who is called the “Mother of Chinese Computing” for shaping some of China's first computer science institutions
Isolated from the rest of the world, one woman pushed computing from a geeky obsession into a transformative industry. Tweets: @hild_de , @tsmullaney , @drkevorko , @amanda_ruggeri...