Girl wasn’t just the first woman to receive a computer science PhD in America, she was the first person to receive a computer science PhD in the world. The other recipient got it at the same time.
Reminds me of a nun who was one of my professors in college. Three PhD’s, and an MD with board certification in two different areas. Someone asked why and how she did all of that.
“I’m a nun, it’s not like we don’t have a lot of free time to do stuff with…”
Interesting part of this is that she was nearly the first person EVER to get a CS doctorate. A man in St. Louis got his DSc earlier on the exact same day she got her PhD in Wisconsin. They were the first two CS doctorates awarded anywhere in the US, 1965.
Remember that computer science was a lowly women’s job for us lowly unintelligent women when suddenly it wasn’t. CompSci has ALWAYS belonged to women, but tech bros won’t have you believing that.
A lot of early programmers were women, educated women in mathematics and engineering often hard it hard to find work in their field and since early programming required calculation they started hiring these women.
Also women became nuns for lots of reasons, religious calling was only one of many reasons.
bro what?? i never would’ve guessed. love learning random history like this it kinda gives me hope tbh like no matter what your life looks like, you still got room to be a trailblazer.
It seems crazy that the first phd in computer science was as late as 1965. Computers had been developed by academic eggheads for decades at that point.
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Girl wasn’t just the first woman to receive a computer science PhD in America, she was the first person to receive a computer science PhD in the world. The other recipient got it at the same time.
Reminds me of a nun who was one of my professors in college. Three PhD’s, and an MD with board certification in two different areas. Someone asked why and how she did all of that.
“I’m a nun, it’s not like we don’t have a lot of free time to do stuff with…”
it’s woman. women is plural
Interesting part of this is that she was nearly the first person EVER to get a CS doctorate. A man in St. Louis got his DSc earlier on the exact same day she got her PhD in Wisconsin. They were the first two CS doctorates awarded anywhere in the US, 1965.
woman is singular. women is plural. this is about a singular woman. 💫
Sister Mary Keller wasn’t just breaking glass ceilings, she was coding in a habit!
“And the lord said “let there be bytes””.
Why do so many people keep getting woman and women mixed up?
She wrote the God code.
Doctor Sister Mary Keller
Remember that computer science was a lowly women’s job for us lowly unintelligent women when suddenly it wasn’t. CompSci has ALWAYS belonged to women, but tech bros won’t have you believing that.
Had a programming professor that was a nun. They’ve been doing it since punch cards.
A lot of early programmers were women, educated women in mathematics and engineering often hard it hard to find work in their field and since early programming required calculation they started hiring these women.
Also women became nuns for lots of reasons, religious calling was only one of many reasons.
bro what?? i never would’ve guessed. love learning random history like this it kinda gives me hope tbh like no matter what your life looks like, you still got room to be a trailblazer.
Sister Mary Keller walked so modern tech could run. Absolute legend
She felt deus in the ex machina.
Yeah, and she helped develop BASIC too—total legend.
I wonder if she took on the title “Dr”
Get that bag, sis.
Her cousin Helen never saw it coming
She then proceeded to whack her teacher with a pointer stick. If you went a Catholic school you know what I mean.
It seems crazy that the first phd in computer science was as late as 1965. Computers had been developed by academic eggheads for decades at that point.
Man I would be so pissed to be a computer expert who died in 1985. That’s like walking out of a movie just before all the tits and explosions.
First woman*
How is that an easy mistake to make?
Look what boredom does to a mf
My father was a nun.
Republicans say she’s no doctor…lol