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Janet Abbate (born June 3, 1962) is an associate professor of science, technology, and society at Virginia Tech. Her research focuses on the history of computer science and the Internet, particularly on the participation of women in the field. Janet Abbate is also the author of Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999), Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure (MIT Press, 1995), and Recoding Gender Women’s Changing Participation in Computing (MIT Press, 2012). Janet Abbate also attended The University of Pennsylvania for her Ph.D.

Academic career[edit]
Abbate received her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College and her master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. She also received her Ph.D. from the in American Civilization from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. From 1996 to 1998, she was a postdoctoral fellow with the IEEE History Center, where she conducted research on women in computing. She joined the faculty of Virginia Tech's Northern Capital Region campus in 2004 and is now an associate professor and the co-director of the graduate program in Science, Technology, and Society. Janet Abbate earned a BA from Harvard University, a MA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to her academic work, Abbate was a computer programmer herself. Her background in computer programming has influenced her research approach and has been cited as relevant in reviews of her work.

Research
Janet Abbate has done a lot of research in her career. Some of her main areas of focus include: Gender in Science and Technology, History of Computing the Internet, and Labor Issues in Science and Technology. She has written books including: Inventing the Internet (MIT Press, 1999) Standards Policy for Information Infrastructure (MIT Press, 1995), and Recoding Gender Women’s Changing Participation in Computing (MIT Press, 2012). She also was awarded the 2014 Computer History Museum Prize from the Society for the History of Technology.

Janet Abbate is currently researching historical emergence of computer science as an intellectual discipline.

Resources

 * 1) Abbate, J. (2012). Recoding gender: Women's changing participation in computing. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
 * 2) Abbate, J. (1999). Inventing the Internet. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
 * 3) https://www.linkedin.com/in/jabbate?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F
 * 4) Schafer, V. (2023). [Review of the book Abstractions and Embodiments: New Histories of Computing and Society ed. by Janet Abbate and Stephanie Dick]. Technology and Culture 64(2), 611-613.   https://doi.org/10.1353/tech.2023.0082.