Claire L. Evans — Broad Band

Claire L. Evans — Broad Band https://clairelevans.com Claire L. Evans — Broad Band Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:58:26 +0000 https://clairelevans.com en Press https://clairelevans.com/Press Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:58:26 +0000 Claire L. Evans — Broad Band https://clairelevans.com/Press ︎Press “An insightful, intelligent observer...Evans proves a companionable guide for a tour through cyberspace...[and] provide[s] much needed perspective." —New York Times An “engrossing revisionist history of computation and the internet...Evans’ writing can approach lyrical pitch.” — San Francisco Chronicle “Broad Band is a celebration of the women whose minds gave birth to the motherboard and its brethren.... an engaging series of biographical essays on lesser known mathematicians, innovators and cyberpunks." —Wall Street Journal "A jaunty new history of women in computing." —WIRED "In this inspiring tale, writer Evans chronicles the contributions of some of the many women who aided the rise of the modern Internet." —Scientific American “An invigorating history of female coders, engineers, entrepreneurs, and visionaries who helped create and shape the internet.” —Publishers Weekly "An edifying and entertaining history of the rise of the computer age and the women who made it possible. A good choice for fans of Hidden Figures." —Kirkus A “fascinating and inspiring work of women’s history.” —︎Booklist ︎ For press inquiries contact ︎ Margo Stamas at Penguin Random House <img width="315" height="176" width_o="315" height_o="176" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fd4e4549778fc3a6e3928e5c7970451099952c3ca6473710a7e1f82ee70b39ef/PBS.svg" data-mid="14870209" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/315/i/fd4e4549778fc3a6e3928e5c7970451099952c3ca6473710a7e1f82ee70b39ef/PBS.svg" /> <img width="355" height="428" width_o="355" height_o="428" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b5ffefdbea81b525c184e5e8e8e35b018690e5fb7183d8740cf24ca1a8cacefa/PC-Mag.svg" data-mid="14870204" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/355/i/b5ffefdbea81b525c184e5e8e8e35b018690e5fb7183d8740cf24ca1a8cacefa/PC-Mag.svg" /> <img width="585" height="83" width_o="585" height_o="83" 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Evans — Broad Band https://clairelevans.com/Merch ︎ BROAD BAND SHOP ENIAC SIX SHIRT Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Meltzer, Fran Bilas, and Ruth Lichterman were the six female programmers of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first electronic general-purpose computer. They’re known to history as the ENIAC Six and I always thought that’d make a killer all-girl punk band name.  Honor these punks of early computing with an ENIAC Six shirt, woman-printed in Los Angeles by Temple of Merch on soft 100% cotton shirts. 50% of profits donated to Girls Who Code. Designed by Jona Bechtolt. FREE SHIPPING! $25 Sizes Small $25.00 USD Medium $25.00 USD Large $25.00 USD XL $25.00 USD Email Signup https://clairelevans.com/Email-Signup Wed, 20 Dec 2017 15:50:54 +0000 Claire L. Evans — Broad Band https://clairelevans.com/Email-Signup Blurbs https://clairelevans.com/Blurbs Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:13:04 +0000 Claire L. Evans — Broad Band https://clairelevans.com/Blurbs “Broad Band is the Our Bodies, Ourselves for all computer users—this knowledge belongs to us. And Claire Evans tells the story like a friend who knows you get bored easily; a generous sort of brilliance that pulled me right in. This is a radically important, timely work.” MIRANDA JULY, filmmaker, artist, and author of The First Bad Man “Broad Band is such an interesting secret history, written with great panache.” JON RONSON, author of The Psychopath Test and So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed “A necessary addition to the story of women in computing, about known heroes and the fearless women and punks the world needs to know more about.” ELLEN ULLMAN, author of Life in Code, Close to the Machine, and The Bug Author https://clairelevans.com/Author Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:13:03 +0000 Claire L. Evans — Broad Band https://clairelevans.com/Author Claire L. Evans is a writer and musician. She is the singer and coauthor of the pop group YACHT, and the founding editor of Terraform, VICE's science-fiction vertical. She is the former futures editor of Motherboard, and a contributor to VICE, Rhizome, The Guardian, WIRED, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Eye on Design, and Aeon. She is an advisor to graduate design students at Art Center College of Design and a member of the cyberfeminist collective Deep Lab. She lives in Los Angeles. Photograph of the author © Jaclyn Campanaro Events https://clairelevans.com/Events Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:13:03 +0000 Claire L. Evans — Broad Band https://clairelevans.com/Events ︎Events 10/18/2019 University of California, Berkeley 10/24-25/2019 Berlin, DE - Ada Lovelace Festival Cover https://clairelevans.com/Cover Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:13:01 +0000 Claire L. Evans — Broad Band https://clairelevans.com/Cover <img width="1562" height="725" width_o="1562" height_o="725" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/942c1f8088ed4c043f60efcdf6ffc6a6b0eec3dd2c9ce0834be9549f53e5cbfc/Broad-Band-Type.png" data-mid="8256882" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/942c1f8088ed4c043f60efcdf6ffc6a6b0eec3dd2c9ce0834be9549f53e5cbfc/Broad-Band-Type.png" /> Book https://clairelevans.com/Book Mon, 18 Dec 2017 19:13:01 +0000 Claire L. Evans — Broad Band https://clairelevans.com/Book The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation—they’ve just been erased from the story. Until now. Join the ranks of the pioneers who defied convention and the longest odds to become database poets, information-wranglers, hypertext dreamers, and glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs. Welcome to the Broad Band. You’re next. OUT NOW! Order from: ︎ Powell's ︎ Amazon ︎ Audible ︎ iBooks ︎ Google Play ︎ BAM ︎ IndieBound ︎ Barnes and Noble