introduction to digital media | fdm20c

I’m enjoying this little article about IT Barbie–I love the comments about her hairstyle!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8517097.stm

For Ada Lovelace Day 2010, I want to share some work made by women who have taken my “Introduction to Digital Media” class at UCSC. Some of these women are accomplished programmers, engineers, and/or computer scientists who also have vibrant art practices. Others are artists first, and have learned about programming to help them think [...]

Everyone should go to the Computer History Museum asap for a PDP-1 demo. Today, I played Spacewar! on a PDP-1. This is unbelievably cool, not just because I played Spacewar, but because I got to meet two of the people who programmed PDP-1 at MIT in the 1960s, Steve Russell and Peter Samson.

From the website, [...]

I’ve stopped responding to e-mails about Spring’s 20c, due to volume, as of March 1. And I haven’t responded to any e-mail sent to ucsc.

But, please know that I am labeling and archiving your narratives about why the class is important for spring quarter, and I will consider these narratives as much as possible [...]