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Producer/Director LeAnn Erickson LeAnn Erickson is an Associate Professor at Temple University in Philadelphia and has been an independent filmmaker for over 20 years. Her work has appeared on television, in galleries, and has won international recognition in video/film festivals. She is a recipient of regional and national production grants for her work from such funding sources as the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation and the Leeway Foundation.
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Hate mail! We’re very excited to announce that we’ve passed an important milestone today: our first piece of hate mail. Confusingly, we’ve no idea what post this chap is talking about, but maybe he’ll respond with a clarification. The full text below, for your enjoyment: Dear whoever you are, I am a programmer and while you find the something-one-digit-percent of tech industry annoying by the way they see women, your post to myself as a programmer (yes, you guessed it, male) is abusing.Disliking this lack of professionalism in her workplace and accused of not being able to take a joke, she created her own bot. Her chat bot responds to “That’s what she said” with a quote from a famous woman. The history of technology is steeped in mathematics. There have been a few recent posts on Systers about the famous and, some argue, forgotten, female mathematician, Emmy Noether. I am sure most of us women in technology have wondered about this: Why are we always a minority? This question came particularly to my mind last month, when I was writing applications for some scholarships (as all grad students do when searching for supplemental funding).
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Several times in the last several weeks, I’ve found myself involved in an internet dust-up on twitter about “women in tech”. This is the politically correct term. But what it’s really about is the rampant misogyny and sexism in the tech industry. The most recent kerfuffle involved geekli.st. I won’t go over the details.
What’s the big deal? « Not Rich Yet
Famous Women in Computer Science » Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
The Anita Borg Institute is proud to introduce – Famous Women in Computer Science. This list was compiled by our Advisory Board Awards Committee: Katy Dickinson (Director, Huawei Technologies), Fran Allen (IBM Emerita and 2006 Turing Award Winner), Dr. Chandra Krintz , (Professor, Computer Science Department, University of California at Santa Barbara) and Dr.techwomenmena.wordpress.com
We’ve put together a new video from 2011 Professional and Cultural Mentors about their experience with the TechWomen program. We hope you enjoy their stories as much as we do! Don’t forget, the deadline to become a Mentor is coming up quickly. Apply before May 15 to be considered in the first round of selection. Applications will be accepted after May 15 on a rolling basis. Additional information about the mentorship is available on our website .
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The Anita Borg Institute is proud to introduce – Famous Women in Computer Science. This list was compiled by our Advisory Board Awards Committee: Katy Dickinson (Director, Huawei Technologies), Fran Allen (IBM Emerita and 2006 Turing Award Winner), Dr. Chandra Krintz, (Professor, Computer Science ...
Dot Diva | Educators & Parents | What Works with Girls: Images
Because graphic images can work on a visceral, emotional level, they have the power to help transform girls' perceptions of computing. Here's what we’ve learned about images from our focus groups with girls. It's about People, Not Technology Images of technology alone (even of cool gadgets like smartphones or 3-D imaging) don't generate much career interest from girls.
My father was a Computer Scientist. He would come home every day talking about the latest breakthroughs. His passion, enthusiasm and the intensity with which he lived his work made a great impression on me.
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For years, I thought I had landed a full-time job at Google due to a series of very fortuitous events. First of all, I got the job through a summer internship, which allowed me to bypass the rigorous 8-interviews-in-a-day hiring process. And I lucked out because my phone screens for the internship just happened to cover material I was familiar with. I was also asked mostly algorithms and larger-picture design questions, which played to my strengths, and completely escaped having to code over the phone. Later I found out that my inability to internalize my own accomplishments was indicative of Impostor Syndrome .
Overcoming Impostor Syndrome « Jean Hsu
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An Interview with Frances E. Allen | January 2011 | Communications of the ACM
ACM Fellow Frances E. Allen, recipient of the 2006 ACM A.M. Turing Award and IBM Fellow Emerita, has made fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of program optimization and compiler construction over a 50-year career. Her contributions also greatly extended earlier work in automatic program parallelization, which enables programs to use multiple processors simultaneously in order to obtain faster results.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 . We need to call pseudocontext out when we see it, call it out by name.
Pseudocontext in Computer Science
This is a series of videos about doodling in math class. Hopefully more info about the mathematics soon. For other videos, see this page . To download a video, right click and select "save link as" (or something like that, depending on your browser).
Vi Hart: Math Doodling
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