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E-book Diversity in Computer Science : Design Artefacts for Equity and Inclusion

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ll the research we present in this book took place in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Copenhagen (Datalogisk Institut Københavns Universitet [DIKU]), in Denmark. Thus, our work is situated in Denmark, and since gender is culturally shaped (Butler 1999), providing some contextual information about the Computer Science Department is important. The University of Copenhagen was established in 1479 and is the oldest university in Denmark and the second old-est in Scandinavia (Uppsala University in Sweden was established in 1477). DIKU was established in 1970 by Turing Award winner Peter Naur and grew out of the Department of Mathematics. DIKU was thus created during the ‘68 student rebel-lion at universities in Denmark, where students and administrative personnel fought for voice and decision power in the universities, thus challenging the prior unified power owned only by professors (Hansen 1997). At this time, universities in Denmark transformed from elite institutions for the few to mass universities that were democratically organized. At DIKU this meant that students were highly engaged with the department’s planning and teaching – active in creating the institu-tion – and that Head of Department was an elected position. At that time approxi-mately 20% of the students were women (Sveinsdottir and Frøkjær 1988), and one of the core faculty members creating the department in 1970 was professor Edda Sveindottir (1936–2022). Considered the first woman computer scientist in Denmark, Professor Sveindottir was the first woman to be appointed Head of Department for Computer Science. Professor Sveindottir was never appointed full professor at DIKU, remaining an associate professor until she left DIKU, but became a full professor at Roskilde University, where she stayed until her retire-ment. Professor Sveindottir is to date the only woman Head of Department at DIKU, and her pioneering research and impact on the development of computer science in Denmark is well celebrated.The PhD degree was introduced in Denmark in 1987, and the first woman to earn the degree in computer science in Denmark was at Aarhus University, the second largest university in Denmark, Professor Susanne Bødker, that same year. The Department of Computer Science at Aarhus University was established in 1975 – and Professor Bødker continues to be one of Denmark’s most influential and inter-national leading computer science researchers to this day. The first woman to earn a PhD in computer science at DIKU was Professor Emeritus Elin Rønby Pedersen, in 1988. After finishing her PhD with Peter Naur as supervisor, Professor Pedersen become associate professor at Roskilde University. She left Denmark and academia and moved on to industry at Google and Microsoft for more than 25 years. Professor Rønby Pedersen returned to Denmark in 2021, continuing as a senior research sci-entist at Google, but was also appointed professor at the University of Southern Denmark.

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004 BJO d

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Switzerland : Springer Nature., 2023

Deskripsi Fisik

139 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9783031133145

Klasifikasi

004

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

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Subjek

Data Processing, Computer Science

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