Oral history interview with Carolyn S. Miller

Miller, Carolyn S.
2015-12-01
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Oral history interview with Carolyn S. Miller

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2015-12-01

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Charles Babbage Institute

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Carolyn S. Miller graduated in 1968 with a degree in mathematics from the University of Kentucky, which had significant computing courses at the time. She took a job at Bell Laboratories military division in Whippany, New Jersey, working on the Safeguard Ballistic Missile Defense System while gaining a master’s degree from Stevens Institute of Technology. When Bell canceled the missile project, she moved with other Whippany staff to Bell Labs in Naperville, Illinois, to work on software for ESS (Electronic Switching System). The interview discusses affirmative action and the women’s movement. She left Bell in 1976 for General Electric and then North Carolina State, where she experienced significant gender differences in teaching introductory computer science. This material is based on work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”

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Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”

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Carolyn S. Miller, OH 480. Oral history interview by Thomas J. Misa, 1 December 2015. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.

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Miller, Carolyn S.. (2015). Oral history interview with Carolyn S. Miller. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/183241.

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