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Seniors In Tech: Ruth Pordes

Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

News, Technology

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to Seniors In Tech, a podcast mini-series where we bust stereotypes by talking to seniors who either worked in the tech industry at the beginning of the digital era, and or are currently tech-fluent in their everyday lives. I’m Dr. Niki Ackermans and in this final installment of Seniors In Tech we're talking to Dr. Ruth Pordes. A software engineer and IT for particle accelerator labs in the 1990s, and who also had a role in developing the World Wide Web.

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0:00.0

A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.

0:04.0

Then I'm going to jump to a link.

0:05.0

Using the usual tech devices.

0:07.0

We have a plane device called our mouse.

0:09.0

Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.

0:11.0

Now we're connected audio.

0:13.0

You can see my work. You can point at it.

0:15.0

And I can see your face and we can talk.

0:17.0

Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda

0:20.0

for the next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.

0:24.0

The mother of all demos on no a little more.

0:27.0

Get it wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.0

Welcome to the final episode of seniors and tech.

0:37.0

A mini series where we bust stereotypes

0:39.0

by talking to seniors who are either working in the tech industry

0:42.0

at the beginning of the digital era.

0:44.0

Or who are currently tech fluent in their everyday lives.

0:47.0

I'm Dr. Nikki Akramins.

0:48.0

And this week we are talking to Dr. Ruth Pords

0:50.0

who worked on software that ran particle accelerators

0:53.0

all around the world.

0:55.0

So if you don't mind starting out with your name.

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