The Atlantic’s Rebecca Rosen profiles MIT alumna Radia Perlman in the first installment of a new series on pioneering women in science and technology. Rosen discusses Perlman’s early interest in science, her first introduction to programming and her time at MIT.
Institute Prof. Sheila Widnall, the first woman to lead the Air Force, and Linguistics alumna Jessie “Little Doe” Baird, an indigenous language preservationist, are two of the 10 accomplished women chosen to represent Massachusetts in USA Today’s Women of the Century series, reports Nicole Simmons. Baird was also included in the paper’s nationwide list of 100 Women of the Century.