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Friday, August 15, 2008 5:39 AM

Challenge and Success – Behind the Code with Rebecca Norlander

The latest “Behind the Code” interview at Channel 9 is with Rebecca Norlander who is an executive with Microsoft. She started as a software developer and moved up and up in the company into a very senior role. So if you are looking for another example
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Friday, August 01, 2008 6:56 AM

Attracting Young Women to Software-Related and Other Engineering Fields: We've Been on The Wrong Track All Along

David Klappholz asked me to post this and let any interested LA-area high school computer science teachers know about it. This looks like a very interesting event and if you are in the LA-area please check out. And if you do go please take notes and if
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Friday, July 04, 2008 6:44 AM

June 2008 Top Conversations

June was an interesting month with two main topics that generated traffic and conversation. The most conversation was about women in computer science. Women and Minorities in Computer Science had several comments and attracted a lot of readers. But Articles
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Sunday, June 29, 2008 12:17 AM

Computer Science & Information Technology Symposium 2008

I’ve been to most of the CS & IT symposiums at NECC (and the one at SIGCSE) over the years but today’s was by far the best. Every year the speakers get better. The number and range of sessions gets better. The number of people gets larger (this year’s
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Wednesday, June 18, 2008 3:25 PM

Women and Minorities in Computer Science

One of the post s I wrote last week brought an interesting comment . Why should one concern themselves with whether or not women become computer scientists? Why should women receive any special emphasis? I’ve heard that question or variations of it before.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:56 PM

ACM Committee on Women in Computing Newsletter

ACM-W, the ACM Committee on Women in Computing , has just published the first edition of their newsletter. The newsletter is called "ACM-W CIS newsletter: Celebrate, Inform, Support" and the first issue is pretty interesting. The ACM-W main web page (
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Friday, April 11, 2008 7:39 AM

NCWIT Award for Aspirations in Computing

NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) is running an award program for high school women in the greater metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, and New York City Sponsored by Bank of America, the NCWIT
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 5:25 AM

Bill Gates Calls For More Technology Education

Bill Gates testified before Congress last week ( transcript here ). Most of the news reports focused on his calling for more H1B visas and left out some of what I think are the more important things he said. First among those is that we need to improve
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Thursday, February 28, 2008 4:44 AM

Join The Conversation - Girls On The Web and Other Topics

I'm away on a gaming in computer science conference and while I really wanted to have a lot of great blog posts for you all to enjoy and learn from it's been tough getting all the things done that I needed to get done. But I did want to make sure some
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008 5:32 AM

Science and Engineering Links

Did you know that this is National Engineering Week ? Well it is. So in honor of that a few links. Check out the Try Science web site - Sponsored by IBM. There you will find a list of science competitions by a wide range of sponsors and for a number of
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:23 AM

Update on DigiGirlz Days at Microsoft

I got this announcement this week and thought it worth sharing and reminding people that sign ups open soon. Technology career options offered for high school girls 4th Annual Microsoft DigiGirlz Day connects high school girls with Microsoft women executives
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:20 AM

Top November Posts

November was an interesting month in some ways. It seems that when I really lay out an opinion piece it attracts more attention in both readers and comments. At the same time some informational posts quietly attract a lot of readers as well. Is Computer
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:05 AM

Is Computer Science Dying

Well that is a pretty dramatic title. I didn't think it up myself though. I'm not so pessimistic. It is the title of a post I read recently though. There does seem to be a lot of bad news in the field of Computer Science these days. I also read recently
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Monday, November 19, 2007 4:14 AM

Carrot, Stick, Attract, Retain, Boys, Girls

Is the shortage of women in computer science caused by a failure to attract women or are women being chased away? That seems to be at the heart of some recent discussions I've been following on the subject. Recently one educator talked about using games
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:40 AM

What in the world is a Developer Evangelist?

The word "evangelist" is showing up in job titles more and more these days. But what is a job like that all about? I tend to describe it as being in the "making friends and influencing people" business. But that is just my perspective. Recently Channel
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