Bettina Bair is a Senior Lecturer in the Computer Science & Engineering department at the Ohio State University where she teaches introductory CS topics, computer architecture and software engineering. Bettina is also the department's Diversity Coordinator and Director of the TWiCE (The Women In Computer Engineering) program. She is a faculty sponsor of the university's student chapter of ACM-W, and a member of the Ohio State University President's Council on Women's Issues. Bettina recently received OSU's Distinguished Diversity Enhancement Award and is the 2004 winner of the AFPW Mary Ann Williams Leadership award.
Before becoming an academic, Bettina had a nearly 20 year career in IT industry as a systems programmer, analyst, manager and entrepreneur. She can remember when:
Introductory Computer Science classes used card punch machines and card readers
There were Apple computers that weren't named Macintosh and there was no such company as Microsoft
A gigabyte of disk storage took an 8 foot tall tower of rack mounted Winchester disk drives
The top speed for a modem was 300 bps--that's BYTES per second
Women in computing weren't a novelty
You can learn more about Bettina's diversity related research, and what's happening at OSU to celebrate, inform and support women in computing by visiting http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~bbair/WIC.
