Ellen Ullman

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Ellen Ullman is an American computer programmer and author. She has written novels as well as articles for various publications, including Harper's, Wired, the New York Times and Salon. Her essays and novels analyze the human side of the world of computer programming.

Ullman earned a B.A. in English at Cornell University in the early 1970s.^[1] She then turned to business programming in the following years. She eventually began writing about her experiences as a programmer in 1995 when she wrote an essay titled Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life. She lives in San Francisco^[2].

Contents 1 Essays 2 Non-fiction 3 Novels 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Essays

• Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life (included in the 1995 collection Resisting the Virtual Life, ISBN 0-87286-299-2)
• The dumbing-down of programming (Salon.com, May 12, 1998)
• The dumbing-down of programming, Part 2 (Salon.com, May 13, 1998)

[edit] Non-fiction

• Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents (ISBN 0-87286-332-8, 1997)

[edit] Novels

• The Bug (ISBN 0-385-50860-3, 2003)

[edit] References

1. ^ Women Who Inspire Us (GirlGeeks)
2. ^ 2003 interview with Salon.com about her novel The Bug

[edit] External links

• Interview with Salon magazine (October 9, 1997)
• 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)