Variety

'The Book of Queer' to Premiere on Discovery+ in June

April 27, 2022

 

MIT Technology Review

It's Okay to Opt Out of the Crypto Revolution

April 21, 2022

 

Wired

Women in Tech Have Been Pulling a 'Second Shift' for Decades

February 8, 2022

 

strategy+business

The Right Time to Yell "Fire!"

Best Business Books 2021

November 8, 2021

 

Vice

Ethical AI Trained on Reddit Posts Said Genocide Is Okay If It Makes People Happy

Motherboard - Tech by Vice

November 3, 2021

 

Wired

Facebook's Fall From Grace Looks a Lot Like Ford's

October 14, 2021

 

University of Edinburgh

Your Computer Is On Fire: A Discussion with Authors Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip

Centre for Data Culture & Society

September 22, 2021

 

MIT Technology Review

The Voices of Women in Tech Are Still Being Erased

August 3, 2021

 

Public Books

No Cure: Review of Your Computer Is On Fire

June 2, 2021

 

Oxford University

Your Computer Is On Fire: Book Launch with the Editors

Oxford Internet Institute

June 1, 2021

 

New Scientist

Your Computer Is On Fire review: Wake up to tech's inequalities

April 7, 2021

 

Los Angeles Review of Books

Chasing White Supremacy into Tech's Lairs

April 4, 2021

 

Engadget

The bias behind AI assistants' failure to understand accents (Excerpt from Your Computer Is On Fire)

April 3, 2021

 

How Britain Killed its Computing Industry w/ Mar Hicks

Tech Won't Save Us

Mar 18, 2021

 

VentureBeat

Your Computer Is On Fire Draws on Tech History to Critique AI and the Cloud

March 11, 2021

 

The Radical AI Podcast

Your Computer Is On Fire with Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip

March 10, 2021

 

Britain's Sexist Campaign to Sell Computers

The Reader

Februrary 12, 2021

 

Computational Technologies

Media, Technology & Culture

February 5, 2021

 

CBC

Google Union Organizers Could Face Retaliatory Action, Legal Expert Says

Day 6

January 8, 2021

 

Where Regulation Has Failed, Could a Workers’ Union Hold Google to Account?

Tech Monitor

January 7, 2021

 

Listed on the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics List

(includes nonbinary people)

Women in AI Ethics

December 5, 2020

 

IEEE

2019 Best Paper Award

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

IEEE Computer Society Publications Board

December 1, 2020

 

PRX

Queen of Code (1943) w/ Mar Hicks

This Day in Esoteric Political History

November 22, 2020

 

Wealthsimple

The Code That Controls Your Money

Money & The World

November 10, 2020

 

Fast Company

You Watched 'The Social Dilemma.' Read These Eleven Books Next

September 30, 2020

 

moz://a

Reading List: The Social Dilemma

The Mozilla Foundation

September 29, 2020

 

Built to Last: Don't Blame COBOL. Blame Austerity.

LOGIC #11

August 31, 2020

 

University Professors Share Their Thoughts On Colleges Reopening

All Things Considered

August 21, 2020

 

The Verge

University Staff Are Worried Their Recorded Lectures Will Be Used Against Them

August 20, 2020

 

Co-Opting AI: GENDER

Institute of Public Knowledge, New York University

May 14, 2020

 

NBC News

A 'perfect storm' for chaos: Unemployment system's failures were a long time coming

May 12, 2020

 

The Verge

The Problem with COBOL

April 28, 2020

 

Massive Science

Can You Help Identify Unnamed Women Scientists of the Past?

April 16, 2020

 

MIT Technology Review

What Past Disasters Can Teach Us About How to Deal With COVID-19

April 15, 2020

 

2018 Award Winner Interviews

The Society for the History of Technology

March 19, 2020

 

The New York Times

The Great Google Revolt

March 18, 2020

 

Time

How Pets Are Taking Their Thrones as the Stars of the Work-From-Home Paradigm Right Now

March 13, 2020

 

BBC News Service

Global stocks plunge as coronavirus fears spread

World Business Report

March 12, 2020

 

KCBS Radio

Discussing the Kickstarter Union

February 19, 2020

 

Information & Culture

A History of Women in British Telecommunications: Introducing a Special Issue

Information & Culture - University of Texas Press

February 1, 2020

 

HuffPo

National Archives Blurred Out Anti-Trump Messages In Women's March Photo

The Huffington Post

January 18, 2020

 

IEEE Spectrum

The Hidden Figures Behind Bletchley Park's Code-Breaking Colossus

December 31, 2019

 

2019 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize

American Historical Association

December 1, 2019

 

Slate

The Lines of Code That Changed Everything

Slate: Future Tense

October 14, 2019

 

The Washington Post

How a debate about punching Nazis sparked the fight to create tech's first name-brand union

October 10, 2019

 

OneZero

Here's How Amazon Alexa Will Recognize When You're Frustrated

September 27, 2019

 

Mar Hicks, "The Meta-Narrative of the Machine: Computing and Social Inequalities in Great Britain"

National Humanities Center Podcast

August 26, 2019

 

Slate & The Economist

A Bug in the System: What can Ada Lovelace's mistake from 1843 tell us about modern-day biases in software algorithms?

The Secret History of the Future Podcast

August 15, 2019

 

HuffPo

Why Thousands Of Amazon Workers Are Striking On Prime Day

The Huffington Post

July 16, 2019

 

The New York Times

Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions.

July 8, 2019

 

El País

El sexismo oculto en la voz de Alexa

June 27, 2019

 

The Guardian

Our gender is not for others to decide. A bill for trans people to self-identify is a good start

June 19, 2019

 

Smithsonian Magazine

The Gendered History of Human Computers

June, 2019

 

Inverse

The Enduring, Intoxicating Appeal of the "Secret Crush"

May 28, 2019

 

TechCrunch

Gender, race and social change in Tech

TechCrunch : Extra Crunch

May 22, 2019

 

Quanta Magazine

The Hidden Heroines of Chaos

May 20, 2019

 

Slate

Early Libertarian Dreams of a Free Internet Didn’t Work Out as Planned

Slate: If Then

May 8, 2019

 

Big Picture

Technology's Gender and Sexuality Blindspot

Big Picture, The View From Lewis College

Spring, 2019

 

BBC Radio

A Job for the Boys

BBC Radio 4

April 1, 2019

 

What Makes a History "Hidden"?

The MIT Press Blog

March 29, 2019

 

Episode 37: The History of Gender in Computing with Historian Mar Hicks

She Who Persisted, the Nasty Podcast

March 20, 2019

 

6AM Book Club

Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks

March 18, 2019

 

The New York Times

The Secret History of Women in Coding

The New York Times Magazine

February 13, 2019

 

Programmed Inequality: A 2018 Bestseller at the MIT Press Bookstore

MIT Press

February 1, 2019

 

Review of Programmed Inequality

Jonnie Penn on H-Net

February 1, 2019

 

Wired

Finding Lena, The Patron Saint of JPEGs

wired.com

January 31, 2019

 

La computadora tiene cara de mujer

(The Computer Has a Women's Face)

infobae

January 22, 2019

 

Review: Programmed Inequality

H / Soz / Kult

January 16, 2019

 

Wired

Mackenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder

wired.com

January 11, 2019

 

Review of Programmed Inequality

Aurelio Cianciotta on Neural.it

January 11, 2019

 

Programmed Inequality

2018 winner of the

Business Archives Council's Wadsworth Prize

November 15, 2018

 

The Verge

The Long History Behind the Google Walkout

November 9, 2018

 

Harvard Kennedy School

Before Algorithms: A History of Bias and Oppression in Computing (video)

digital HKS

November 8, 2018

 

Programmed Inequality

2018 winner of the

North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) Stansky Book Prize

October 25, 2018

 

Stayin' Alive in Technology

Mar Hicks: "We Belong"

Stayin' Alive in Technology Podcast

October 18, 2018

 

The Guardian

From the Birth of Computing to Amazon: Why Tech’s Gender Problem is Nothing New

October 12, 2018

 

Programmed Inequality

2018 winner of the

Society for the History of Technology's Sally Hacker Book Prize

October 11, 2018

 

Forbes

Was Der Code Verrät

Forbes (German)

October 10, 2018

 

Debates on Artificial Intelligence: Arts vs. Technology?

Interview with GDI Researcher Zhan Li

Artificial intelligence, equality and social justice

September 24, 2018

 

How To Kill Your Tech Industry

LOGIC #5

September 18, 2018

 

Fixing Tech's Built-In Bias

American Scientist

September 1, 2018

 

A Convenient Excuse: Tech's Discrimination Problem

The H-Net Book Channel

June 1, 2018

 

BBC History Extra

The changing role of women in British computing

May 2018

 

University of Pennsylvania

Three-dozen summer reading recommendations from faculty and staff

Penn Today

May 24, 2018

 

The Times Literary Supplement

Storm Clouds

May 15, 2018

 

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Oral History of Dame Stephanie Shirley

May 8, 2018

 

Science, Technology and Human Values

Girls Who Coded: Gender in Twentieth Century U.K. and U.S. Computing

Review

May 7, 2018

 

2018-2019 Fellows

National Humanities Center

April 27, 2018

 

House of Lords

AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?

Select Commitee on Artificial Intelligence

April 16, 2018

 

Programmed Inequality with Mar Hicks

The Women in Tech Show

April 16, 2018

 

The Brookings Institute

Black and Hispanic underrepresentation in tech: It's time to change the equation

March 28, 2018

 

BBC

How Women Got Squeezed out of Tech

(my remarks begin at the 9 minute mark)

BBC World Service Business Daily

March 8, 2018

 

Silicon Republic

The Storytellers: 12 women shining a spotlight on women in STEM

March 7, 2018

 

E&T

Book review: Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks

Engineering and Technology

February 13, 2018

 

Computer Dating: Women Tech Innovators

Professor Buzzkill

February 13, 2018

 

American Publishers Awards

Programmed Inequality

2018 winner of the

PROSE Award for History of Science, Technology & Medicine

February 8, 2018

 

Trailblazers Podcast

"Be Mine"

(History of computer dating goes from 8:50 - 15:22)

Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson

February 6, 2018

 

Mar Hicks on Programmed Inequality in conversation with documentarian Melissa Pierce

The Seminary Co-op : Open Stacks

February 4, 2018

 

Forbes

Elizebeth Smith Friedman: 'The Woman Who Smashed Codes'

January 6, 2018

 

Longreads.com

Best of 2017: Science, Technology, and Business Writing (For the article "The Mother of All Swipes")

Longreads

December 27, 2017

 

Episode 4: Technology and Women's Labor

Lady Science Podcast

December 12, 2017

 

The Wall Street Journal

The First Women in Tech Didn’t Leave—Men Pushed Them Out

December 10, 2017

 

IEEE Spectrum

The Numbers of Women in Tech Rise and Fall, But Sexual Harassment is Ever Present

View From the Valley

December 8, 2017

 

Computer History Museum

Programmed Inequality

CHM Live

December 6, 2017

 

Woman Crush Wednesday: Stephanie Shirley

Professor Buzzkill

November 1, 2017

 

Brand Eins

Stereotypen befallen uns alle (Stereotypes Affect Us All)

Frauen/Männer (Women/Men)

November 11, 2017

 

Programmed Inequality: Women and British Computing

Professor Buzzkill

October 11, 2017

 

Grace Hopper Celebration

Why Discrimination Against Women Destroyed the British Computing Industry and Why We Should Care

October 5, 2017

 

Women once powered the tech industry. Can they do it again?

ScienceNode

October 2, 2017

 

Reprogramming History

University of Wisconsin-Madison

September 12, 2017

 

CounterSpin Radio

Women in Tech

CounterSpin on FAIR

August 25, 2017

 

Chicago Magazine

Why Women Programmers Were the Foundation of the Computing Age, and Where They Went

August 17, 2017

 

The Verge

"Science Doesn't Explain Tech's Diversity Problem - History Does"

August 16, 2017

BBC Radio 4

 

Global news and analysis

The World This Weekend

August 13, 2017

 

Wisconsin Public Radio

Sexism In Tech Industry

(starts at 22:20)

Central Time

August 11, 2017

 

The Guardian

How the Tech industry wrote women out of history

August 10, 2017

 

The Conversation

What the Google gender ‘manifesto’ really says about Silicon Valley

August 10, 2017

 

The Washington Post

Op Ed

Memo to the Google memo writer: Women were foundational to the field of computing

August 9, 2017

 

The Guardian

Sorry, Google memo man: women were in tech long before you

August 9, 2017

 

BBC Radio 4

Interviewed by Jenni Murray

BBC 4: Woman's Hour

July 6, 2017

 

Chicago Policy Review

Gender, Pop Culture, and Politics in Technology: Lessons from the Past

June 28, 2017

 

"Programmed Inequality"

These Vibes Are Too Cosmic

June 27, 2017

 

Oxford University

Structural Inequality and Technological Consequences:

The Case of British Computing

Oxford Internet Institute

June 1, 2017

 

The Mother of All Swipes

LOGIC Magazine

June 1, 2017

 

Databite No. 97: Why Should We Care About the Failure of The British Computing Industry?

Data & Society

April 19, 2017

 

Australian National Radio

Late Night Live: The History of Women Codebreakers

Australian Broadcasting Company

April 18, 2017

 

The Chronicle

Reading List for a New World Order

The Chronicle of Higher Education

April 9, 2017

 

Times Higher Education

Book of the Week: Programmed Inequality

April 6, 2017

 

"What Happens When Women Are Pushed Out Of The Tech Industry?"

WUNC: The State of Things

April 5, 2017

 

WGN Radio 720

"Women’s Role in Global Technological History"

WGN Radio: The Opening Bell

April 5, 2017

 

Interview: Programmed Inequality - How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing

New Books Network

March 28, 2017

 

Mar Hicks & Programmed Inequality

New Book Network: Gender Studies Podcast

March 28, 2017

 

The MIT Press

"The Hidden Figures of the British Computer Industry"

The MIT Press Blog

February 27, 2017

 

The Guardian

Movie Review of Hidden Figures

February 13, 2017

 

Hidden Histories of Computing Reading List

The Seminary Co-Op Critical Reads

February 5, 2017

 

ChicagoInno

"How Tech's Gender Gap Influences a Country's Computing Power"

ChicagoInno.com

February 3, 2017

 

"Womyn Historical Figures with Mar Hicks"

WIIT's Womyn Power Hour

hosted by Gabbi Henderson and Jenny Pitcher

(See their  page)

February 1, 2017

 

ChicagoInno

"This Illinois Tech Class Puts Women Back in Computing History"

ChicagoInno.com

December 22, 2016

 

BuzzFeed

"We Asked The Experts To Predict The Future Of UK Politics After Brexit"

BuzzFeed News

July 2, 2016

 

WBEZ Chicago

"The Design of the Wrigley Scoreboard: Revolutionary, Retro or Both?"

WBEZ: Curious City

September 11, 2015

 

The Guardian

"Oxford University went co-ed 40 years ago. And look how far we've come"

June 21, 2014

 

BBC

"How the Computer Changed the Office Forever"

BBC News

August 1, 2013

 

Computer History Museum

"Brograms and the Power of Vaporware"

Computer History Museum Blog

March 27, 2013