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{{Short description|American food scientist and computer scientist}}
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|fields = [[Computer science]], [[Food science]]
|fields = [[Computer science]], [[Food science]]
|workplaces = [[FMC Corporation]], PhF Specialists
|workplaces = [[FMC Corporation]], PhF Specialists
|alma_mater = [[University_of_California%2C_Berkeley|University of California, Berkeley]] and [[University_of_California,_Davis|Universisty of California, Davis]]
|alma_mater = [[University of California, Berkeley]] and [[University of California, Davis]]
|known_for = Creating [[Project_One_(San_Francisco)#Resource_One|Resource One]], a so-called ''people's computing center'' at [[Project_One_(San_Francisco)|Project One]] in San Francisco
|known_for = Creating [[Project One (San Francisco)#Resource One|Resource One]], a so-called "people's computing center" at [[Project One (San Francisco)|Project One]] in San Francisco
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'''Pamela Hardt-English''' is an American food scientist and computer scientist who created [[Project_One_(San_Francisco)#Resource_One|Resource One]], a ''people's computing center'' in 1972 at [[Project_One_(San_Francisco)|Project One]], a "technological commune" in San Francisco, California.<ref>{{cite book |last=Evans |first=Claire |date=2018 |title=Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545427/broad-band-by-claire-l-evans/ |location=New York |publisher=Penguin Random House |page=97 |isbn=9780735211759 |author-link=Claire_L._Evans}}</ref>
'''Pamela Hardt-English''' is an American food scientist and computer scientist who created [[Project One (San Francisco)#Resource One|Resource One]], a "people's computing center" in 1972 at [[Project One (San Francisco)|Project One]], a "technological commune" in San Francisco, California.<ref>{{cite book |last=Evans |first=Claire |date=2018 |title=Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet |url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/545427/broad-band-by-claire-l-evans/ |location=New York |publisher=Penguin Random House |page=97 |isbn=9780735211759 |author-link=Claire L. Evans}}</ref>


==Education==
==Education==


Pamela Hardt-English was a graduate student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. She left the computer science program in 1970 in protest against the [[Cambodian_campaign|American incursion into Cambodia]]. As she noted, "I dropped out of school because I decided that I spent too much time preparing to do stuff and not enough time actually doing anything."<ref>{{cite AV media | people= Optic Nerve (Director) | date=1972 | title=Project One | URL = https://archive.org/details/cbpf_000052 | medium=Motion picture | location=San Francisco | time = 4:10 minutes in }}</ref>
Pamela Hardt-English was a graduate student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. She left the computer science program in 1970 in protest against the [[Cambodian campaign|American incursion into Cambodia]]. As she noted, "I dropped out of school because I decided that I spent too much time preparing to do stuff and not enough time actually doing anything."<ref>{{cite AV media | people= Optic Nerve (Director) | date=1972 | title=Project One | URL = https://archive.org/details/cbpf_000052 | medium=Motion picture | location=San Francisco | time = 4:10 minutes in }}</ref>


==Resource One==
==Resource One==


Hardt-English joined [[Project One]], a live-work community (sometimes referred to as a "technological commune," conceptualized around Symbas School — an alternative high school — and housed in a multistory former factory building in San Francisco, in 1970. In 1972, she arranged for the delivery of a decommissioned [[SDS 940]], a mainframe computer, to the commune, establishing Resource One. Resource One's goal was to link together the centers of counterculture across the Bay Area with a computer network.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leefelsenstein.com/?page_id=44 |title=Resource One / Community Memory 1972-1973 |last=Felsenstein |first=Lee |date=April 30, 2005 |website=LeeFelsenstein.com |access-date=October 9, 2019}}</ref>
Hardt-English joined [[Project One (San Francisco)|Project One]], a live-work community (sometimes referred to as a "technological commune"), conceptualized around Symbas School — an alternative high school — and housed in a multistory former factory building in San Francisco, in 1970. In 1972, she arranged for the delivery of a decommissioned [[SDS 940]], a mainframe computer, to the commune, establishing Resource One. Resource One's goal was to link together the centers of counterculture across the Bay Area with a computer network.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.leefelsenstein.com/?page_id=44 |title=Resource One / Community Memory 1972-1973 |last=Felsenstein |first=Lee |date=April 30, 2005 |website=LeeFelsenstein.com |access-date=October 9, 2019}}</ref>


==Career==
==Career==


After leaving Project One, Hardt-English received master's degrees in [[agricultural engineering]] and [[food science]] from the University of California, Davis.<ref>{{cite book |date=1992 |title=Marine Aquaculture: Opportunities for Growth |url=https://www.nap.edu/read/1892/chapter/15#270 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=National Academy Press |page=270 }}</ref> She is currently the president of PhF Specialists, Inc. in San Jose, California.
After leaving Project One, Hardt-English received master's degrees in [[agricultural engineering]] and [[food science]] from the University of California, Davis.<ref>{{cite book |date=1992 |title=Marine Aquaculture: Opportunities for Growth |url=https://www.nap.edu/read/1892/chapter/15#270 |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=National Academy Press |page=270 |doi=10.17226/1892 |isbn=978-0-309-04675-6 }}</ref> She is currently the president of PhF Specialists, Inc. in San Jose, California.


==Notes==
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Pamela Hardt-English
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley and University of California, Davis
Known forCreating Resource One, a so-called "people's computing center" at Project One in San Francisco
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science, Food science
InstitutionsFMC Corporation, PhF Specialists

Pamela Hardt-English is an American food scientist and computer scientist who created Resource One, a "people's computing center" in 1972 at Project One, a "technological commune" in San Francisco, California.[1]

Education

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Pamela Hardt-English was a graduate student in computer science at the University of California, Berkeley. She left the computer science program in 1970 in protest against the American incursion into Cambodia. As she noted, "I dropped out of school because I decided that I spent too much time preparing to do stuff and not enough time actually doing anything."[2]

Resource One

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Hardt-English joined Project One, a live-work community (sometimes referred to as a "technological commune"), conceptualized around Symbas School — an alternative high school — and housed in a multistory former factory building in San Francisco, in 1970. In 1972, she arranged for the delivery of a decommissioned SDS 940, a mainframe computer, to the commune, establishing Resource One. Resource One's goal was to link together the centers of counterculture across the Bay Area with a computer network.[3]

Career

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After leaving Project One, Hardt-English received master's degrees in agricultural engineering and food science from the University of California, Davis.[4] She is currently the president of PhF Specialists, Inc. in San Jose, California.

Notes

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  1. ^ Evans, Claire (2018). Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet. New York: Penguin Random House. p. 97. ISBN 9780735211759.
  2. ^ Optic Nerve (Director) (1972). Project One (Motion picture). San Francisco. Event occurs at 4:10 minutes in.
  3. ^ Felsenstein, Lee (April 30, 2005). "Resource One / Community Memory 1972-1973". LeeFelsenstein.com. Retrieved October 9, 2019.
  4. ^ Marine Aquaculture: Opportunities for Growth. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press. 1992. p. 270. doi:10.17226/1892. ISBN 978-0-309-04675-6.
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