Cross Section: Dame Stephanie Shirley – Science Weekly podcast

Hannah Devlin speaks with the IT pioneer about her life as a woman in tech, having a son with autism, and how it all led to her later role as a philanthropistSubscribe& Review oniTunes,Soundcloud,Audioboom,Mixcloud&Acast, and join the discussion onFacebook andTwitterIn 1962, Stephanie Shirley - nowDame Stephanie Shirley - set up the computing company Freelance Programmers with just £6. The company was one of the first to commercialise software which, until then, had often been given away for free with computers. And with a gender balance of roughly one man for every hundred women, the company was pioneering in other ways too.Continue reading...

Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - August 16, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Presented by Hannah Devlin and produced by Max Sanderson Tags: Science Technology Autism Computing Source Type: news