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--- history:top [2016/05/17 15:48]
jebailie [Winifred Asprey]
+++ history:top [2022/02/19 21:50] (current)
mlsmith [The History of Computing at Vassar]
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 ====== The History of Computing at Vassar ======
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+{{ :history:asprey_lab.jpg?direct&200 |left to right: Nancy Ide, Winifred Asprey, Grace Hopper}}
+**Photo wall in Asprey Lab:** \\
+**Matriarchs of Computing**
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 ===== Winifred Asprey =====
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 Asprey secured the funds for Vassar's first computer, the IBM 360, which was purchased in 1967. At the same time, she established Computer Science Studies and set up a Mathematics and Computer Science major. She served as chair of Computer Science Studies until her retirement in 1982. As Professor Emeritus, she remained an active member of the Vassar Computer Science community until her death at the age of 90 in October, 2007.
+More articles and photographs:
+  * [[http://computerscience.vassar.edu/about/history.html|More about the history of Computer Science at Vassar College]]
+  * [[https://www.flickr.com/photos/baynardbailey/albums/72157604954577635|Gallery of photos]] of Miss Asprey curated by Baynard Bailey
+  * {{:history:student_using_vc_s_first_computer.jpg?linkonly|Student using Vassar College's first computer}}
+  * Winifred A. Asprey, '38. "Vassar's Newest Jewel: the 360." //Vassar Alumnae Magazine,// April, 1967, pp. 2--6. {{ :history:vassar_s_newest_jewel_-_vq_april_1967.pdf |PDF}}
+  * [[https://www.vassar.edu/computerscience/docs/women-of-computing.pdf|How Vassar’s Computer Science Department Championed the Role of Women in
+  * Programming and Computer Systems -- by Steven Park, December 2016]]
+  * {{ :history:a_brief_history_of_women_in_computer_science_at_vassar.pdf |A Brief History of (Women in) Computer Science at Vassar}} -- presentation by Professor Nancy Ide, June 2021.
-[[http://computerscience.vassar.edu/about/history.html|More about the history of Computer Science at Vassar College]]