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title: Karen Sparck Jones
canonical: "https://joost.blog/karen-sparck-jones/"
pubDate: "2019-01-03T00:00:00.000Z"
description: "> “Computing is too important to be left to men.”"
categories: [Short]
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> “Computing is too important to be left to men.”

I had never heard of Karen Sparck Jones before, I’m thankful I have now:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/obituaries/karen-sparck-jones-overlooked.html 

We have a team of linguists / developers at Yoast, looks like we owe her a great deal.