This is a biography which explores the career of computer visionary Grace Murray Hopper, whose innovative work in programming laid the foundations for the user-friendliness of today's personal computers.
Computing remains a heavily male-dominated field even after twenty-five years of extensive efforts to promote female participation. The contributors to Women and Information Technology look at reasons for the persistent gender imbalance in computing and explore some strategies intended to reverse the downward trend.
Based on extensive interviews, Tessa Dunlop tells the story of The Bletchley Girls through the lives of fifteen women who were all selected to work in Britain's most secret code-breaking WWII organisation - Bletchley Park.
Full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: mid 1970s-present
Interdisciplinary, international database covering the core literature of the field of women's and gender studies with links to full text.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1964 -
Full-text collection of all ACM publications including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters, and books. The ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database with a focus on the field of computing is included in the ACM Digital Library.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1985-present (Conference proceedings before 1991 may be citation only)
Scholarly journals, trade publications, and consumer titles covering topics such as artificial intelligence, automation, gaming, graphics, networking, security, database management, systems administration, information science and hardware
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The database includes the following subjects: computer applications, data communications and data transmission systems, electronic data processing, information science and information theory, radio and television
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Full-text database covering librarianship, cataloging, classification, publishing, information retrieval and information management. Historical coverage includes materials back to 1900.
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Provides access to major popular and scholarly journals, including many full-text articles.
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An index for North American history consisting of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations & book reviews. America, History and Life is a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. (Source: vendor website.)
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Indexes US dissertations from 1861 with full text available from 1997; masters theses covered selectively including some full text.
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Database from the American Psychological Association covering the academic research and practice literature in psychology and related disciplines (medicine, education, social work, etc.) from over 60 countries in more than 29 languages. It provides indexes to journals, dissertations, book chapters, books, technical reports, and other documents from 1887 to the present.
Access: Off Campus Access is available for: UNC-Chapel Hill students, faculty, and staff; UNC Hospitals employees; UNC-Chapel Hill affiliated AHEC users. Coverage: 1887 - Present