Women in Computing

Women in Computing - Fall 2009

Lecture Activities, Homework and Labs

Lecture Activity - History of Computers

Team 1: Ancient History - 1900
Team 2: 1901 - 1945
Team 3: 1946 - 1980
Team 4: 1981 - 2009

All teams will prepare 4 - 5 Power Point slides with the summary of the historical period that your team is covering.
The summary should include the list of women in computing that worked in the time period that your team is covering and only very brief (one sentence) description of their contribution.

Topic: Programming Languages

Women in Computing Contribution: Programming and Programming Languages

Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace
Grace Hopper
- The Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing
Barbara Liskov
- The Mother of all programming languages - WITSend - a place for women in IT
Mary Allen Wilkes
Adele Goldberg
- Smalltalk language
ENIAC Programmers - Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances Snyder Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Frances Bilas Spence and Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum.

Lecture Activity - Learning HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language

Lab 2 - Women in Computing Contribution: Programming and Programming Languages

Team 1: Ada Byron, Lady Lovelace
Team 2: Grace Hopper
Team 3: Barbara Liskov, Mary Allen Wilkes and Adele Goldberg
team 4: ENIAC Programmers - Kathleen McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Jean Jennings Bartik, Frances Snyder Holberton, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Frances Bilas Spence and Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum.

Lab requirements

Each teach will prepare small website - 2-3 pages. No external links.
The website should include the following:
- Short bio
- Detailed description of the contibution
- Description of the retaled events/projects/issues
- Summary of the article from ACM digital library (acm.org) related to the contribution that your team is covering

Programming Languages

Alice Programming: In Class Lab Assignment

Build an animation for an electronic greeting card (any occasion you choose . birthday, get well, etc.). You can get ideas from the following web sites:
free.bluemountain.com
greetings.yahoo.com

Paper Summary
Each student will prepare the summary (2-3 Power Point slides or one HTML page) of one paper from the list of papers that are listed below. The summary should include 2-3 questions to assess the understanding of the presentation and also to initiate discussion related to the paper. The presentation also should include a short personal opinion related to the various programming environments that we explored so far in the course.

Second Alice Project

For this project you will create one of the following animations:

animated commercial movie to advertise the original product that is related to technology or computing.
animation for the interactive game
advertisement for the summer camp that explore computing field

Creating Timer in Alice

Cryptology

Homework for Friday, Nov 6 ( no class on Friday Nov 6)

History of Cryptology
Cryptology and WWII
The Women of Bletchley Park
- The Women of Bletchley Park
- The Women of Bletchley Park
Women in Computing Contribution into Cryptology Field:
- Shafi Goldwasser
- The Cryptoclub Using Mathematics to Make and Break Secret Codes: Janet Beissinger, Vera Pless, Daria Tsoupikova
Women in Computing Contribution into Design and Analysis of Algorithms: Eva Tardos
Women in Computing Contribution into Game Design: Carol Shaw, Roberta Williams
Women in Computing Contribution into Robotics:
- Women in Robotics and Automation towards Human Science, Technology and Society
- Ada Lovelace Day: celebrating women in robotics
  
  Guest Talk - November 16, 11:00 - 11:50, Webb Room
- Title and Abstract of the Guest Talk
Computer Forensics and Steganography Lecture Activities

Files for the Lab
picture 1
picture 2

Steganography Lab Practice
- The lab practice instructions were edcrypted in the following file ForensicsLabPractice.doc.isc
- Save this file to your desktop
- Decrypt the following file that was encrypted with Invisible Secrets software using AES encryption algorithm. In order to find the password for decryption you need to decrypt the word RZPEDYBO that was encrypted by Shift Cipher with Muptiply 5 and Add 7
- After decryption, you would be able to open the file and read the message.
- Follow instuctions that you just read to find the treasure.
- You would need to use an additional file picture.bmp to find a treasure
- Here is the file: picture.bmp
Lab Practice - Preparation for the Lab Assignment

Lab Practice Description
Files for the LAB

data.htm.isc
pic.jpg
Steganography Lab Assignment

ForensicsStegLabAssignment.doc
Files for the Lab Assignmen
hidePic.jpg
info.htm.isc