Mitch Kapor's Blog

A number of years ago, I helped support early work on a documentary film about the first modern computer programmers, the team of women who programmed the ENIAC computer during World War II. This is an untold story which deserves much wider exposure.

There’s going to be a documentary fundraiser on Thursday, November 8 at Google with Kathy Kleiman, the film’s executive producer, and Jean Bartik, an original ENIAC programmer.

Tickets are $100, and the location is:

Google Headquarters
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Link to the event

Link to info about the ENIAC Programmer’s Project

We’re testing the new version of the Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer. If you’d like to help us shake out the last problems before we make it generally available, see the blog post here, where you can also download it.

Freada’s book has been officially published. I’m very happy for her.

The book ought to be required reading for everyone who wants workplaces to be the kind of respectful and inclusive environment one can feel good about. This has been a shared passion of Freada’s and mine for over 20 years, beginning as professional colleagues at Lotus in the 1980’s and blossoming into love & marriage in the 1990’s.

Read more here.

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