March 23. So much for you, Larry Summers, mere economist.
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the male weirdness of computer science
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female? She published a 124-page paper, “Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?â€, that catalogued different [...]
Watering down computer science, Java, and feminism
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
This old note by Spolsky explains why the shift to java-only in computer science classes is harmful and reminds me of two events in my old career as an academic. One was when a student came by my office to explain to me, in the most condescending manner, how the linked-list exercise I had given [...]