Heriot-Watt University

This year marked a historic occasion in the Computer Science department at Heriot-Watt University: the number of our female professors doubled from two (Ruth Aylett and Fairouz Kamareddine) to four with the promotion of Verena Rieser and Helen Hastie.  Join us as these four professors discuss how they ended up in computing at Heriot-Watt: the education and career choices […]

HIDDEN FIGURES is the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson (Taraji P. Henson), Dorothy Vaughan (Octavia Spencer) and Mary Jackson (Janelle Monáe)—brilliant African-American women working at NASA, who served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn into orbit, a stunning achievement that restored the nation’s […]