Ellen Ullman
Ellen Ullman is an American computer programmer and author. She has written novels as well as articles for various publications, including Harper's Magazine, Wired, the New York Times and Salon. She owned a consulting firm and worked as technology commentator for NPR's All Things Considered.[1] Her essays and novels analyze the human side of the world of computer programming.
Ullman's adoptive father's family included computer scientists and mathematicians who had a major impact on her decision to pursue software engineering, a field for which she did "not have native talent."[2] Ullman earned a B.A. in English at Cornell University in the early 1970s.[3] She began working professionally in 1978 as a programmer of EDI applications and graphical user interfaces that preceded Microsoft Windows.[4]
She eventually began writing about her experiences as a programmer. From 1994 until 1996 she published articles in Harper's Magazine and in the collections Resisting the Virtual Life and Wired Women.[4] In 1995 she wrote an essay titled Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life. She lives in San Francisco.[5]
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Bibliography
Non-fiction
- Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents (ISBN 0-87286-332-8, 1997 and ISBN 978-1-250-00248-8, 2012)
Novels
- The Bug (ISBN 0-385-50860-3, 2003)
- By Blood: A Novel (ISBN 0-374-11755-1, 2012)
Essays
- Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life (included in the 1995 collection Resisting the Virtual Life, ISBN 0-87286-299-2)
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References
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- Interview with Salon magazine (October 9, 1997)
- Needed: Techies Who Know Shakespeare New York Times (July 8, 1998)
- Interview with Stay Free magazine (Fall 1998)
- Interview with frontwheeldrive.com (May 21, 1999)
- Interview with SF Gate (May 8, 2002)
- Interview and discussion of The Bug on The WELL (January, 2004)
- Audio interview with Jon Udell (October 6, 2006)
- "Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life"
- Disappearing into the code (Salon Magazine)
- Sliced off by the cutting edge (Salon Magazine)
- How to be a 'Woman Programmer' New York Times (May 18, 2013)
- Story Behind By Blood - Online Essay at Upcoming4.me (July 9, 2013)
- Story Behind The Bug - Online Essay at Upcoming4.me (October 9, 2013)
- REVIEW : By Blood Upcoming4.me (May 25, 2013)
