Seniors In Tech: Ruth Pordes
Daily Tech News Show
Tom Merritt
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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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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