Get to know Ada Lovelace, who wove the first computer program in 1842, and Grace Hopper, the tenacious mathematician who democratized computing after World War II. In a world where tech companies are still male-dominated and women are often dissuaded from STEM careers, Broad Band shines a much-needed light on the bright minds history forgot, from pioneering database poets, data wranglers, and hypertext dreamers to glass ceiling-shattering dot com-era entrepreneurs. They may have been hidden in plain sight, their inventions and contributions touching our lives in ways we don't even realize, but they have always been part of the story. In fact, women turn up at the very beginning of every important wave in technology. Female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation. The history of the internet is more than just alpha nerds, brogrammers, and male garage-to-riches billionaires. This is a radically important, timely work, says Miranda July, filmmaker and author of The First Bad Man. She lives in Los Angeles, where she is an advisor to students in the Media Design Practices program at Art Center College of Design.If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet-written out of history, until now.
She has given invited talks at the Hirshhorn Museum, Walker Art Center, TEDx, La Gaité Lyrique, Google I/O, The New Museum, XOXO Festival, MUTEK, Goethe Institut, Manchester International Festival, SXSW, Gray Area, Neural Information Processing Systems, the Association for Computational Linguistics, and the Decentralized Web Summit, among others. Her 2022 profile of the lost hacker Susy Thunder was nominated for an ASME Award a feature film adaptation of the story is currently in development at Paramount Pictures. Her writing has appeared in The Verge, MIT Technology Review, VICE, , Pioneer Works’ Broadcast, The Guardian, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Document Journal, Eye on Design, and Aeon, among others. Her 2018 history of women in computing, Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet, published by Penguin Random House, has been translated into six languages. She is the singer of the Grammy-nominated pop group YACHT, co-founder of VICE’s imprint for speculative fiction, Terraform, and co-editor, with Brian Merchant, of the accompanying anthology Terraform: Watch Worlds Burn (MCD Books, 2022). Evans is a writer and musician exploring ecology, technology, and culture.
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