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Connecting Women and Technology » Anita Borg Institute for Women

How does biology explain the low numbers of women in computer sc Panos Ipeirotis – Google+ Blog Archive » Woman in technology Usually I avoid topics like women in technology because (1) it is a can of worms, and (2) I can really only speak for myself. For the most part, I’d rather be seen as a person in technology than a woman, but this weekend the twitterverse erupted with opinions about Google sponsoring female students to attend JSConf. As a woman who is often the only-woman-in-the-room, I want people to know it isn’t always easy. I was a bit shocked by the blatant failure to empathize. On the Big Web Show, I talked about being a women in a male dominated field (min 7:12). “I was a carpenter before I got into web stuff, so you guys can’t really compete with the carpenters, no matter how unruly you get.” That is true, but a simplification. After conducting a thorough study on the status of female researchers at MIT. The heart and soul of discrimination, the last refuge of the bigot, is to say that those who are discriminated against deserve it because they are less good.Dean Robert J. He says it beautifully.

The Female Perspective of Computer Science CompSci Woman CompSci.ca/blog Travel Time API — Amazon vs. Microsoft public transit times The awesome part about working at a startup is that I get to play with all the neat technology that the rest of the team puts together. One such example is the Travel Time API, which is used to calculate actual travel times (via multiple modes of transportation) from one origin to many destinations. The resulting map of how far one can get via public transit and walking from the centers of Amazon (left) and Microsoft (right) tech headquarters within 25 minutes. The difference between Computer Scientist and Computer Engineer [according to SMBC] It's Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal! UBB (metered internet) will restrict innovation UBB (Usage Based Billing / “Metered Internet”) is a hot topic right now, with many Canadians angry over the failures of CRTC and the subsequent forced price hike of the internet, even when using small competing ISPs. (Important) Computer Science jobs are not outsourced

From comments: women in science, their history as told by… men? A few strands are coming together in comments. First, our linkspam linked to Richard Holmes’s The Royal Society’s lost women scientists, and Lesley Hall then commented: I’m somewhat annoyed at all the coverage A MAN talking about lost women scientists is getting, when we have several decades-worth of women historians of science who have been saying the exact same thing. Meanwhile on the Wednesday Geek Woman post on Maria Goeppert-Mayer, Chronic Geek asks: As a side note. The following have already been recommended: Margaret Wertheim (1995) Pythagoras’s Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender WarJulie Des Jardins (2010) The Madame Curie Complex: The Hidden History of Women in Science Lesley Hall herself also has a book chapter: (2010) ‘Beyond Madame Curie? For readers just starting out on this, what works would you recommend on the history of women in science and the invisibility of women in science? Like this: Like Loading...

Vi Hart: Math Doodling Remember that video about doodling dragons and fractals and stuff? I finally finished part 2! Here is a magnet link so you can dowload it via torrent. Here it is on YouTube: You can tell I worked on it for a long time over many interruptions (travelling and other stuff), because in order to keep myself from hating what was supposed to be a quick easy part 2, I had to amuse myself with snakes. Part of working on part 2 was working on part 3 and other related material, so the next one should go faster. Here was part 1, via Torrent or YouTube. Pseudocontext in Computer Science Can you imagine a programming assignment or example where "common sense and real-world knowledge are not needed"? Math teacher (and now PhD student in education) Dan Meyer proposed that many math problems fit into this category, exhibiting what he calls pseudocontext. Dan settles on the following definition of pseudocontext: context that is flatly untrue: "a basketball team scores two points every minute for the duration of the game." And in an earlier post on the topic, describes why it's a problem: We need to call pseudocontext out when we see it, call it out by name. I've been thinking about some of the assignments we can see in computer science classes and how far from reality they can seem, and wondered whether we suffer from the same issues. It's certainly not as clear as with math problems, however. The last assignment from the same class makes use of a text file containing a list of dictionary words.

An Interview with Frances E. Allen | January 2011 Interview By Guy L. Steele Communications of the ACM, Vol. 54 No. 1, Pages 39-45 10.1145/1866739.1866752 Comments ACM Fellow Frances E. ACM Fellow Guy L. Your first compiler work was for IBM Stretch.a Yes. How many copies of Stretch were built? Eight or nine. But still, 50 times... Meanwhile, the underlying technology had changed. What was your connection with Stretch? My role was on the compiler. Did you already know FORTRAN, or were you learning it a week ahead, as professors often do? Yeah, a week ahead [laughs]. It was recognized later that the technology developed in building Stretch made a huge difference for subsequent machines. Did you win them over? Yes—and won myself over. Did you ever work on that compiler yourself? I was reading the code in order to do the training. The Stretch group recognized that the compiler was going to be an essential part of that system. This was Stretch Harvest? Yes. A single compiler framework to encompass all three languages? What did you do next? Yes. Yes.

Geek Girl Camp Women in Tech If you're still working on your annual self-review, you're in good company. I'm still putting the finishing touches on mine, and I have list of requests for coworker feedback that I'm also chiseling down on. With deadline looming, I thought I would share some advice from Yahoo! leaders about the process. Last week, Women in Tech gathered a panel to talk about the process, offer tips about how to write an effective self-review, and share what the review process really accomplishes. We were grateful to host the following esteemed speakers: John Matheny – SVP, Media & Commerce EngineeringRusty Berg – VP, Service Engineering - Platform & Data ServicesAlison Hu – Talent & Organization Development Here are some highlights from the meeting, for inspiration. How much time should you spend on your self-review? Our panelists agreed that no matter what else you might have on your plate, your self-review is Read More »from Tips on writing self-reviews from Women in Tech’s panel

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