"The computer does not believe in tears": Soviet programming, professionalization, and the gendering of authority

• Main Author: TATARCHENKO, Ksenia
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Philosophy of Science
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cis_research/132; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/cis_research/article/1131/viewcontent/The_Computer_Does_Not_Believe_in_Tears.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

By the middle of the 1960s, the Soviet press routinely exalted computers as the “machines of communism,” and the new programming profession had become familiar enough to make a programmer the main hero of a science iction novel. he Strugatskys’ immensely popular Monday Begins on Saturday—the title r...