Mar Hicks
8 Podcast Episodes
How Britain Killed its Computing Industry w/ Mar Hicks
How Britain Killed its Computing Industry w/ Mar Hicks
Paris Marx is joined by Mar Hicks to discuss why we need to know the history of tech and how the British history of sexi... Read more
18 Mar 2021
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54mins
Your Computer Is on Fire with Mar Hicks & Kavita Philip
Your Computer Is on Fire with Mar Hicks & Kavita Philip
How do we challenge techno-utopianism? How do we dismantle systems of oppression in technology? To answer these questio... Read more
10 Mar 2021
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58mins
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Queen of Code (1943) w/ Mar Hicks
Queen of Code (1943) w/ Mar Hicks
It’s November 22nd. On this day in 2016, Barack Obama awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to computer programmer G... Read more
22 Nov 2020
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22mins
Mar Hicks, “The Meta-Narrative of the Machine: Computing and Social Inequalities in Great Britain”
Mar Hicks, “The Meta-Narrative of the Machine: Computing and Social Inequalities in Great Britain”
In the popular imagination, computers are not only superior to humans in speed and accuracy, but they do their work free... Read more
26 Aug 2019
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19mins
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Episode 39: Fighting the Tech-Bro Stereotype with Dr. Mar Hicks
Episode 39: Fighting the Tech-Bro Stereotype with Dr. Mar Hicks
In this episode we finish up our interview with Historian Mar Hicks and talk about contemporary issues facing women in c... Read more
23 Apr 2019
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31mins
Episode 37: The History of Gender in Computing with Historian Dr. Mar Hicks
Episode 37: The History of Gender in Computing with Historian Dr. Mar Hicks
In celebration of women's history month and the 30th anniversary of the world wide web, we are kicking of our third seas... Read more
20 Mar 2019
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38mins
Mar Hicks: "We Belong"
Mar Hicks: "We Belong"
Mar Hicks, Associate Professor of History at Illinois Institute of Technology, drops in to talk about the history of te... Read more
18 Oct 2018
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48mins
Programmed Inequality with Mar Hicks
Programmed Inequality with Mar Hicks
In the 1940s, programming was viewed as women’s work. However, as electronic computing matured the proportion of women w... Read more
17 Apr 2018
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