In 1985, approximately 15,000 women and 27,000 men earned bachelor’s degrees in computer and information sciences. By 2010, over 35,000 men earned computer science degrees, while only 7,500 ...

At the dawn of computing, women were the early adopters of computational technology, working with punch cards in what was ...

At Compuware's headquarters in downtown Detroit, more than 200 employees work in the mainframe division, not including its salespeople. The company would not reveal the average age of this group ...

Since the early days of the mainframe, women have been coding and working with the platform to help not only researchers, but also the government. Like Grace Hopper, today’s women continue to build on ...

You might think of the mainframe computer as long-gone relic of the Cold War. A 22-year-old senior at the University of North Texas was the first woman in the U.S. to win an IBM mainframe coding ...

The mainframe computer has been around for over half a century, and it seems like people have been predicting its demise for almost as long. But the only thing going away is the workforce that ...

The IBM z890 Mainframe computer weighs 1,500 pounds and stands over five feet tall. When it was first unveiled in 2004, it cost over $300,000. At that time, the z890 was a cutting-edge solution ...

Computers weren’t always an electronic device – it was a job done by black women – but the relations of 1960s black politics, culture and space were far more complex than ‘Hidden Figures ...

In the 1950s, women were calculating U.S. space missions, and by the 1960s they were programming mainframe computers. So, it should come as no surprise that there are also many remarkable female ...

A mainframe is just a big computer, as defined by David Stephens, author of What On Earth Is A Mainframe?, but more specifically the IBM zSeries computers.Simple as that. Mainframes date back to ...

The 64-bit OS was developed by IBM for the Z/Architecture family of mainframe computers, and it has compatibility with the older MVS mainframe OS. It was released in 2000 and is backward ...