Podcast Episode 126 l Mary Kenneth Keller: The Nun Who Helped Shape the Digital Age

20/06/2025 6 min
Podcast Episode 126 l Mary Kenneth Keller: The Nun Who Helped Shape the Digital Age

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Episode Synopsis

We all know of the pioneers of computer science like Alan Turing and Bill Gates. What most people are not familiar with is Mary Kenneth Keller - a Catholic nun and one of the field's true trailblazers. In the US, she was one of the first people to earn a Ph.D in computer science and then went on to make computing accessible.