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On broadband access disparities, online harassment, and algorithmic bias, and what it will take to build a more inclusive and equitable internet.

With Meredith Clark, Sasha Costanza-Chock, and Safiya Noble, moderated by Candice Norwood.

On the history of academic computer networks and time-sharing systems, and how they shaped computing as a public utility rather than a private product.

On performing gender within PLATO, an early educational computing system, and what it reveals about identity and power in computer history.

On challenging traditional narratives of computer history, pairing emerging scholars with practitioners to surface overlooked questions of gender, race, and class beyond the standard Silicon Valley story.

On her mother's decision to refuse breast cancer treatment, and how it shaped Rankin's own choices when she later faced a breast cancer diagnosis herself.

On why patients sometimes decline recommended cancer treatments, and how oncologists can support those decisions without withdrawing their care.

On the history of academic computer networks as a public utility, and what that history means for how we think about computing and AI today.

On the research behind her book, and how mid-century time-sharing networks shaped computing as a public utility rather than a private product.

On the Dartmouth Time-Sharing System and the birth of BASIC, and how it brought computer games and access to computing to the public.

On leaving a tenured path to work at the forefront of AI, and her research on gender, race, and power in AI systems.

On the origins of C and UNIX at Bell Labs, and the broader 1960s movement for time-sharing and computing as a public utility.

On the GE-225 mainframe, its time-sharing capabilities, and its role in the creation of BASIC at Dartmouth.

On her book's account of educational computing initiatives, from Dartmouth's time-sharing system to the PLATO project, that expanded access to computing as a public utility.

On the history of collaborative, community-centered computer networks in the 1960s and 70s, and how it contrasts with today's Silicon Valley mythology.

A short documentary film about Grace Hopper, directed by Gillian Jacobs (star of Community).

A workplace comedy pilot about an all-women tech incubator, written by Kim Rosenstock, starring Sophia Di Martino and Kirby Howell-Baptiste.

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A documentary about the programming language BASIC, developed at Dartmouth College in the early 1960s.

Dartmouth BASIC at 50