The excerpt draws on: Jean Jennings Bartik, Pioneer Programmer (Truman State); Jean Bartik
oral history, conducted by Gardner Hendrie, Computer History Museum, July 1, 2008; Jean Bartik
oral history, conducted by Janet Abbate, IEEE Global History Network, Aug. 3, 2001; Steve Lohr, «Jean Bartik, Software Pioneer, Dies at 86,» New York Times, Apr. 7, 2011; Jennifer Light, «
When Computers Were Women,» Technology and
Culture, July 1999.
Having said that,
when you call on your own lives to understand lives lived in different
cultures; film, maybe better than television or even books which often suffer from the translation, provide a mainline into that power of the
oral tradition.
These shortcomings include failure to protect artists for more than 70 years (
when culture is ongoing), protection for individuals only, and not for communities, and failure to protect
oral history, Indigenous ecological knowledge or sacred sites.