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Oral history interview with Ann S. Kaufman
No full textTranscript, 52 pp.Ann Kaufman graduated from an all-girls academic high school, then took a bachelor’s degree in math from Queens College (CUNY) with a Regent’s Scholarship and then a master’s degree in math from Duke University. After teaching mathematics at a junior high school for three years, she took her first computer science courses at Staten Island College where an instructor arranged an interview with Bell Labs. Hired at Bell she took a master’s in computer science at Stevens Institute of Technology. She relates her experiences on assignment at Bell Southern, an operating company, and her subsequent Bell Labs work in programming, systems engineering, product management, and systems integration. She then traveled extensively in helping internationalize AT&T's Unix system, and then worked in different capacities for Novell and Santa Cruz Operation (SCO), after they successively bought the Unix division. She returned to Lucent Technologies then Avaya, doing project management for several data centers. Then, after a post-2001 hiatus, she returned to project-management and consulting work for Diageo (the drinks conglomerate). She offers thoughts on outsourcing and professional entrance in the IT workforce.
This material is based on work funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”Alfred P. Sloan Foundation award B2014-07 “Tripling Women’s Participation in Computing (1965-1985).”Kaufman, Ann S.. (2015). Oral history interview with Ann S. Kaufman. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/188466
Ann S. Conner Hartsuck trip diary, February 1866 to March 1866
No full textAnn S. Conner was one of a second group of Mercer Girls brought to Seattle in 1866. In this trip diary, she tells of life on the steamer which took her from New York and around the southern point of South America. At the end of the diary, she includes a note to a friend, to whom she has decided to mail the diary. Ann writes of life among the varied passengers on the ship, including Asa Mercer, and of several stops in Chile.In 1864 and again in 1866, Asa Mercer, Seattle pioneer and first president of the University of Washington, led groups of young women known as the Mercer Girls on journeys from the East Coast to Seattle. These women were asked to come to Seattle to increase the numbers of marriageable women in the young city. They were also needed to fill jobs, mostly as teachers. Most, but not all, of the Mercer Girls did end up marrying and settling in the Puget Sound area. Ann Conner taught school in Elma, Washington, and married Mark Hartsuck in 1869.
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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