Internet and Popular Press Publications

Variety
'The Book of Queer' to Premiere on Discovery+ in June
April 27, 2022

MIT Technology Review
It's Okay to Opt Out of the Crypto Revolution
April 21, 2022

Wired
Women in Tech Have Been Pulling a 'Second Shift' for Decades
February 8, 2022

strategy+business
The Right Time to Yell "Fire!"
Best Business Books 2021
November 8, 2021

Vice
Ethical AI Trained on Reddit Posts Said Genocide Is Okay If It Makes People Happy
Motherboard - Tech by Vice
November 3, 2021

Wired
Facebook's Fall From Grace Looks a Lot Like Ford's
October 14, 2021

University of Edinburgh
Your Computer Is On Fire: A Discussion with Authors Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip
Centre for Data Culture & Society
September 22, 2021

MIT Technology Review
The Voices of Women in Tech Are Still Being Erased
August 3, 2021

Public Books
No Cure: Review of Your Computer Is On Fire
June 2, 2021

Oxford University
Your Computer Is On Fire: Book Launch with the Editors
Oxford Internet Institute
June 1, 2021

New Scientist
Your Computer Is On Fire review: Wake up to tech's inequalities
April 7, 2021

Los Angeles Review of Books
Chasing White Supremacy into Tech's Lairs
April 4, 2021

Engadget
The bias behind AI assistants' failure to understand accents (Excerpt from Your Computer Is On Fire)
April 3, 2021

How Britain Killed its Computing Industry w/ Mar Hicks
Tech Won't Save Us
Mar 18, 2021

VentureBeat
Your Computer Is On Fire Draws on Tech History to Critique AI and the Cloud
March 11, 2021

The Radical AI Podcast
Your Computer Is On Fire with Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip
March 10, 2021

Britain's Sexist Campaign to Sell Computers
The Reader
February 12, 2021

Computational Technologies
Media, Technology & Culture
February 5, 2021

CBC
Google Union Organizers Could Face Retaliatory Action, Legal Expert Says
Day 6
January 8, 2021

Where Regulation Has Failed, Could a Workers’ Union Hold Google to Account?
Tech Monitor
January 7, 2021

Listed on the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics List
(includes nonbinary people)
Women in AI Ethics
December 5, 2020

IEEE
2019 Best Paper Award
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
IEEE Computer Society Publications Board
December 1, 2020

PRX
Queen of Code (1943) w/ Mar Hicks
This Day in Esoteric Political History
November 22, 2020

Wealthsimple
The Code That Controls Your Money
Money & The World
November 10, 2020

Fast Company
You Watched 'The Social Dilemma.' Read These Eleven Books Next
September 30, 2020

moz://a
Reading List: The Social Dilemma
The Mozilla Foundation
September 29, 2020

Built to Last: Don't Blame COBOL. Blame Austerity.
LOGIC #11
August 31, 2020

University Professors Share Their Thoughts On Colleges Reopening
All Things Considered
August 21, 2020

The Verge
University Staff Are Worried Their Recorded Lectures Will Be Used Against Them
August 20, 2020

Co-Opting AI: GENDER
Institute of Public Knowledge, New York University
May 14, 2020

NBC News
A 'perfect storm' for chaos: Unemployment system's failures were a long time coming
May 12, 2020

The Verge
The Problem with COBOL
April 28, 2020

Massive Science
Can You Help Identify Unnamed Women Scientists of the Past?
April 16, 2020

MIT Technology Review
What Past Disasters Can Teach Us About How to Deal With COVID-19
April 15, 2020

2018 Award Winner Interviews
The Society for the History of Technology
March 19, 2020

The New York Times
The Great Google Revolt
March 18, 2020

Time
How Pets Are Taking Their Thrones as the Stars of the Work-From-Home Paradigm Right Now
March 13, 2020

BBC News Service
Global stocks plunge as coronavirus fears spread
World Business Report
March 12, 2020

KCBS Radio
Discussing the Kickstarter Union
February 19, 2020

Information & Culture
A History of Women in British Telecommunications: Introducing a Special Issue
Information & Culture - University of Texas Press
February 1, 2020

HuffPo
National Archives Blurred Out Anti-Trump Messages In Women's March Photo
The Huffington Post
January 18, 2020

IEEE Spectrum
The Hidden Figures Behind Bletchley Park's Code-Breaking Colossus
December 31, 2019

2019 Herbert Baxter Adams Prize
American Historical Association
December 1, 2019

Slate
The Lines of Code That Changed Everything
Slate: Future Tense
October 14, 2019

The Washington Post
How a debate about punching Nazis sparked the fight to create tech's first name-brand union
October 10, 2019

OneZero
Here's How Amazon Alexa Will Recognize When You're Frustrated
September 27, 2019

Mar Hicks, "The Meta-Narrative of the Machine: Computing and Social Inequalities in Great Britain"
National Humanities Center Podcast
August 26, 2019

Slate & The Economist
A Bug in the System: What can Ada Lovelace's mistake from 1843 tell us about modern-day biases in software algorithms?
The Secret History of the Future Podcast
August 15, 2019

HuffPo
Why Thousands Of Amazon Workers Are Striking On Prime Day
The Huffington Post
July 16, 2019

The New York Times
Employee Activism Is Alive in Tech. It Stops Short of Organizing Unions.
July 8, 2019

El País
El sexismo oculto en la voz de Alexa
June 27, 2019

The Guardian
Our gender is not for others to decide. A bill for trans people to self-identify is a good start
June 19, 2019

Smithsonian Magazine
The Gendered History of Human Computers
June, 2019

Inverse
The Enduring, Intoxicating Appeal of the "Secret Crush"
May 28, 2019

TechCrunch
Gender, race and social change in Tech
TechCrunch : Extra Crunch
May 22, 2019

Quanta Magazine
The Hidden Heroines of Chaos
May 20, 2019

Slate
Early Libertarian Dreams of a Free Internet Didn’t Work Out as Planned
Slate: If Then
May 8, 2019

Big Picture
Technology's Gender and Sexuality Blindspot
Big Picture, The View From Lewis College
Spring, 2019

BBC Radio
A Job for the Boys
BBC Radio 4
April 1, 2019

What Makes a History "Hidden"?
The MIT Press Blog
March 29, 2019

Episode 37: The History of Gender in Computing with Historian Mar Hicks
She Who Persisted, the Nasty Podcast
March 20, 2019

6AM Book Club
Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks
March 18, 2019

The New York Times
The Secret History of Women in Coding
The New York Times Magazine
February 13, 2019

Programmed Inequality: A 2018 Bestseller at the MIT Press Bookstore
MIT Press
February 1, 2019

Review of Programmed Inequality
Jonnie Penn on H-Net
February 1, 2019

Wired
Finding Lena, The Patron Saint of JPEGs
wired.com
January 31, 2019

La computadora tiene cara de mujer
(The Computer Has a Women's Face)
infobae
January 22, 2019

Review: Programmed Inequality
H / Soz / Kult
January 16, 2019

Wired
Mackenzie Bezos and the Myth of the Lone Genius Founder
wired.com
January 11, 2019

Review of Programmed Inequality
Aurelio Cianciotta on Neural.it
January 11, 2019

Programmed Inequality
2018 winner of the Business Archives Council's Wadsworth Prize
November 15, 2018

The Verge
The Long History Behind the Google Walkout
November 9, 2018

Harvard Kennedy School
Before Algorithms: A History of Bias and Oppression in Computing (video)
digital HKS
November 8, 2018

Programmed Inequality
2018 winner of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) Stansky Book Prize
October 25, 2018

Stayin' Alive in Technology
Mar Hicks: "We Belong"
Stayin' Alive in Technology Podcast
October 18, 2018

The Guardian
From the Birth of Computing to Amazon: Why Tech’s Gender Problem is Nothing New
October 12, 2018

Programmed Inequality
2018 winner of the Society for the History of Technology's Sally Hacker Book Prize
October 11, 2018

Forbes
Was Der Code Verrät
Forbes (German)
October 10, 2018

Debates on Artificial Intelligence: Arts vs. Technology?
Interview with GDI Researcher Zhan Li
Artificial intelligence, equality and social justice
September 24, 2018

How To Kill Your Tech Industry
LOGIC #5
September 18, 2018

Fixing Tech's Built-In Bias
American Scientist
September 1, 2018

A Convenient Excuse: Tech's Discrimination Problem
The H-Net Book Channel
June 1, 2018

BBC History Extra
The changing role of women in British computing
May 2018

University of Pennsylvania
Three-dozen summer reading recommendations from faculty and staff
Penn Today
May 24, 2018

The Times Literary Supplement
Storm Clouds
May 15, 2018

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Oral History of Dame Stephanie Shirley
May 8, 2018

Science, Technology and Human Values
Girls Who Coded: Gender in Twentieth Century U.K. and U.S. Computing Review
May 7, 2018

2018-2019 Fellows
National Humanities Center
April 27, 2018

House of Lords
AI in the UK: ready, willing and able?
Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence
April 16, 2018

Programmed Inequality with Mar Hicks
The Women in Tech Show
April 16, 2018

The Brookings Institute
Black and Hispanic underrepresentation in tech: It's time to change the equation
March 28, 2018

BBC
How Women Got Squeezed out of Tech
(my remarks begin at the 9 minute mark)
BBC World Service Business Daily
March 8, 2018

Silicon Republic
The Storytellers: 12 women shining a spotlight on women in STEM
March 7, 2018

E&T
Book review: Programmed Inequality by Mar Hicks
Engineering and Technology
February 13, 2018

Computer Dating: Women Tech Innovators
Professor Buzzkill
February 13, 2018

American Publishers Awards
Programmed Inequality
2018 winner of the
PROSE Award for History of Science, Technology & Medicine
February 8, 2018

Trailblazers Podcast
"Be Mine"
(History of computer dating goes from 8:50 - 15:22)
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson
February 6, 2018

Mar Hicks on Programmed Inequality in conversation with documentarian Melissa Pierce
The Seminary Co-op : Open Stacks
February 4, 2018

Forbes
Elizebeth Smith Friedman: 'The Woman Who Smashed Codes'
January 6, 2018

Longreads.com
Best of 2017: Science, Technology, and Business Writing (For the article "The Mother of All Swipes")
Longreads
December 27, 2017

Episode 4: Technology and Women's Labor
Lady Science Podcast
December 12, 2017

The Wall Street Journal
The First Women in Tech Didn’t Leave—Men Pushed Them Out
December 10, 2017

IEEE Spectrum
The Numbers of Women in Tech Rise and Fall, But Sexual Harassment is Ever Present
View From the Valley
December 8, 2017

Computer History Museum
Programmed Inequality
CHM Live
December 6, 2017

Woman Crush Wednesday: Stephanie Shirley
Professor Buzzkill
November 1, 2017

Brand Eins
Stereotypen befallen uns alle (Stereotypes Affect Us All)
Frauen/Männer (Women/Men)
November 11, 2017

Programmed Inequality: Women and British Computing
Professor Buzzkill
October 11, 2017

Grace Hopper Celebration
Why Discrimination Against Women Destroyed the British Computing Industry and Why We Should Care
October 5, 2017

Women once powered the tech industry. Can they do it again?
ScienceNode
October 2, 2017

Reprogramming History
University of Wisconsin-Madison
September 12, 2017

CounterSpin Radio
Women in Tech
CounterSpin on FAIR
August 25, 2017

Chicago Magazine
Why Women Programmers Were the Foundation of the Computing Age, and Where They Went
August 17, 2017

The Verge
"Science Doesn't Explain Tech's Diversity Problem - History Does"
August 16, 2017

BBC Radio 4
Global news and analysis
The World This Weekend
August 13, 2017

Wisconsin Public Radio
Sexism In Tech Industry
(starts at 22:20)
Central Time
August 11, 2017

The Guardian
How the Tech industry wrote women out of history
August 10, 2017

The Conversation
What the Google gender ‘manifesto’ really says about Silicon Valley
August 10, 2017

The Washington Post
Op Ed
Memo to the Google memo writer: Women were foundational to the field of computing
August 9, 2017

The Guardian
Sorry, Google memo man: women were in tech long before you
August 9, 2017

BBC Radio 4
Interviewed by Jenni Murray
BBC 4: Woman's Hour
July 6, 2017

Chicago Policy Review
Gender, Pop Culture, and Politics in Technology: Lessons from the Past
June 28, 2017

"Programmed Inequality"
These Vibes Are Too Cosmic
June 27, 2017

Oxford University
Structural Inequality and Technological Consequences:
The Case of British Computing
Oxford Internet Institute
June 1, 2017

The Mother of All Swipes
LOGIC Magazine
June 1, 2017

Databite No. 97: Why Should We Care About the Failure of The British Computing Industry?
Data & Society
April 19, 2017

Australian National Radio
Late Night Live: The History of Women Codebreakers
Australian Broadcasting Company
April 18, 2017

The Chronicle
Reading List for a New World Order
The Chronicle of Higher Education
April 9, 2017

Times Higher Education
Book of the Week: Programmed Inequality
April 6, 2017

"What Happens When Women Are Pushed Out Of The Tech Industry?"
WUNC: The State of Things
April 5, 2017

WGN Radio 720
"Women’s Role in Global Technological History"
WGN Radio: The Opening Bell
April 5, 2017

Interview: Programmed Inequality - How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
New Books Network
March 28, 2017

Mar Hicks & Programmed Inequality
New Book Network: Gender Studies Podcast
March 28, 2017

The MIT Press
"The Hidden Figures of the British Computer Industry"
The MIT Press Blog
February 27, 2017

The Guardian
Movie Review of Hidden Figures
February 13, 2017

Hidden Histories of Computing Reading List
The Seminary Co-Op Critical Reads
February 5, 2017

ChicagoInno
"How Tech's Gender Gap Influences a Country's Computing Power"
ChicagoInno.com
February 3, 2017

"Womyn Historical Figures with Mar Hicks"
WIIT's Womyn Power Hour
hosted by Gabbi Henderson and Jenny Pitcher
(See their  page)
February 1, 2017

ChicagoInno
"This Illinois Tech Class Puts Women Back in Computing History"
ChicagoInno.com
December 22, 2016

BuzzFeed
"We Asked The Experts To Predict The Future Of UK Politics After Brexit"
BuzzFeed News
July 2, 2016

WBEZ Chicago
"The Design of the Wrigley Scoreboard: Revolutionary, Retro or Both?"
WBEZ: Curious City
September 11, 2015

The Guardian
"Oxford University went co-ed 40 years ago. And look how far we've come"
June 21, 2014

BBC
"How the Computer Changed the Office Forever"
BBC News
August 1, 2013

Computer History Museum
"Brograms and the Power of Vaporware"
Computer History Museum Blog
March 27, 2013