= Ellen_Ullman =

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= Ellen_Ullman =
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Introduction
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Ellen Ullman is an American computer programmer and author. She has
written books, articles, and essays that analyze the human side of
the world of computer programming.

She has owned a consulting firm and worked as technology commentator
for NPR's 'All Things Considered'. Her breakthrough book was
non-fiction: 'Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents'.

Life
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Ullman's adoptive father's family included computer scientists and
mathematicians who had a major impact on her decision to pursue
software engineering, a field for which she did "not have native
talent." Ullman earned a B.A. in English at Cornell University in the
early 1970s. She began working professionally in 1978 as a programmer
of electronic data interchange applications and graphical user
interfaces.

She eventually began writing about her experiences as a programmer.
From 1994 until 1996, she published articles in 'Harper's Magazine'
and in the collections 'Resisting the Virtual Life' and 'Wired Women'.
She lives in San Francisco.

Books
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* 'Close to the Machine: Technophilia and its Discontents' San
Francisco : City Lights Books, 1997.
* 'Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology' New York: MCD,
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Novels
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* 'The Bug' New York, N.Y. : Talese, 2003.
* 'By Blood: A Novel' New York, N.Y. : Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2012.

Selected articles and essays
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* 'Out of Time: Reflections on the Programming Life' (included in the
1995 collection 'Resisting the Virtual Life', )
* 'The Myth of Order. The real lesson of Y2K is that software operates
just like any natural system: out of control'
* 'The dumbing-down of programming'
* 'How to Be a 'Woman Programmer
* 'Twilight of the crypto-geeks: Lone-wolf digital libertarians are
beginning to abandon their faith in technology uber alles and espouse
suspiciously socialist-sounding ideas.'
* 'Geeks Win: A survey of the oddballs who write the codes that make
the 21st-century world go round'
* 'The Orphans of Invention'
* 'The Boss in the Machine'
* 'Identity Stolen? Take a Number'
* 'Dennis Ritchie'

External links
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*
[https://web.archive.org/web/20061005130913/http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1997/10/09interview.html
Interview with Salon magazine] (October 9, 1997)
* [http://www.stayfreemagazine.org/archives/15/ellen.html Interview
with Stay Free magazine] (Fall 1998)
* [http://frontwheeldrive.com/ellen_ullman.html Interview with
frontwheeldrive.com] (May 21, 1999)
*
[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2002/05/08/eullman.DTL
Interview with SF Gate] (May 8, 2002)
*
[https://www.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/205/Ellen-Ullman-The-Bug-page01.html
Interview and discussion of The Bug] on The WELL (January, 2004)
*
[https://jonudell.net/udell/2006-10-06-a-conversation-with-ellen-ullman-about-living-close-to-the-machine.html
Audio interview with Jon Udell] (October 6, 2006)

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