Lena Soderberg, a Playboy centrefold from the 70s, became the most used test image in the world and is symbolic of how women were left out, and pushed out, of the technology industry. The story dates ...

I had spent many hours looking at Lena: her eyes, her hair and her hat. But then, so had dozens of other researchers working in a new field called digital image processing. It was the early 1980s, and ...