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People talk about computer programmers as if computers are our whole lives. That's simply not true.

Closed environments dominated the computing world of the 1970s and early '80s. An operating system w...

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I don't know where anyone ever got the idea that technology, in and of itself, was a savior. Like al...

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I fear for the world the Internet is creating. Before the advent of the web, if you wanted to sustai...

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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

It is best to be the CEO; it is satisfactory to be an early employee, maybe the fifth or sixth or pe...

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Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology

A computer is a general-purpose machine with which we engage to do some of our deepest thinking and ...

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Introduced in the 1960s, multitasking is an engineering strategy for making computers more efficient...

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I broke into the ranks of computing in the early 1980s, when women were just starting to poke their ...

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Staring prejudice in the face imposes a cruel discipline: to structure your anger, to achieve a cert...

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Ellen Ullman is an American computer programmer and author. She has written novels as well as articles for various publications, including Harper's, Wired, the New York Times and Salon. Her essays and novels analyze the human side of the world of computer programming.More