Until October, 2001, when I retired from full-time (and more) work, I was the coordinator of the Librarians’ Internet Index, I had updated the LII weekly since it started as my gopher bookmark file in mid-1991. From 1994 to early 1996 it was known as the Berkeley Public Library Index to the Internet. We were awarded LSTA grants from the California State Library from 1997-2001 to produce a training manual for indexers, train California librarians to become indexers, and enhance the indexing and searching functions of the database.
Having not been sensitized to her story (even though it was one of Stem Fatale’s essays) I’ve always had a very stereotypical idea of Nightingale as a “highly competent nurse”.
But in fact you can read some of her writing here:
Tina Bird (panel chair):
Tina is a security analyst at Secure Network Systems, a small consulting firm in
Lawrence, KS. She has implemented and managed a variety of wide-area-network
security technologies, such as firewalls and VPN packages; built and supported extranet
and intranet remote access packages; and developed, implemented and enforced
corporate IS security policies in a variety of environments. Her main focus in the last
year has been on the evaluation and implementation of virtual private networking
solutions in small- to mid-sized networks (40 to 4000 hosts). Tina is the moderator of the
Virtual Private Networks mailing list, and is currently writing a book on VPN
implementations with Ted Stockwell (Ascend). Tina has a BS in physics from Notre
Dame and an MS and Ph.D in astrophysics from the University of Minnesota.
Tina was an early pioneer of Virtual Private Networks up to around 2006.
“This is the VPN book I wish I’d written. It explains enough about the protocols and issues to clarify the difficulties for the novice, and supplies page after page of clearly-commented examples – the only way to learn how to make a VPN work! Building Linux Virtual Private Networks will be at the top of my list when people ask what they should read about this complex networking topic.”
Hann is the first woman to achieve the rank of vice admiral in the history of the NOAA Corps and its predecessors.
She served on commercial fishing vessels, NSF research vessels and various NOAA ships and aircraft, as a pilot, flight meteorologist, NOAA Diver and unmanned aircraft systems pilot.[6] She is responsible for the direct leadership and management of OMAO’s operational assets, including the agency’s fleet of 16 research and survey vessels and nine aircraft.
Somerville is the first person to be referred to as a “scientist”, as the word was coined in a review by William Whewell of Somerville’s second book On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences .[5][6] Beyond her work as a scientist, she is known and celebrated as a mathematician and philosopher.[7]
(earlier, such people were referred to as men of science)
Early Developments
The idea for an electron multiplier based on an integrated device combining secondary
emission and a resistive chain dates from 1930; however, it was not until suitable materials became available - based largely on work by Blodgett - that operational devices became a
reality. The first successful multipliers were fabricated in 1958 by Goodrich and Wiley, then with Bendix Research Labs.
The paper in question is
Surface Conductivity of Lead Silicate Glass after Hydrogen Treatment by KATHARINE B. BLODGETT
