Ambient belonging 2: return of the Star Trek poster

I'm giving this its own top-level post as I suspect it would otherwise escape most people's attention:

Remember our previous discussion of the 'ambient belonging' study? The one about how environmental cues alone (Star Trek poster, comics, video-game boxes, pizza boxes, etc.) can influence how much people (don ...

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Gender count: Hovav Shacham talk on voting systems, MIT, Oct. 29

  • Men present: 12 (not including the speaker)
  • Women present: 8
  • Women missing: 4 (33%)

Apologies for the long absence, gentle readers. My two-year-old has been waking us up two to four times per night for for the past few months, making it nigh-impossible for me to string two coherent sentences ...

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More links about women in CS

To return to a former topic: I've collected a number of interesting links regarding women in computer science, and while none have individually warranted a blog post on their own the aggregation is now large enough to post.

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Happy Ada Lovelace Day!

Though I can only wish that I had the energy to fully participate in this worthwhile celebration (things have been crazy-busy) I cannot let the day pass without noting that it is Ada Lovelace Day. I can get behind the concept: instead of talking even more about the women who ...

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Where are all the female computer scientists?

No, really. Where are they? Now that I've noticed, I can't help but see a conspicuous absence of female computer scientists at every CS event I attend. So where are they?1

I admit it, I'm late to this party. I didn't even notice the problem ...

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Gender count: Silverman talk, 2 Oct. 2009

(I'll explain this a little bit later, but I wanted to get this into the blog before I forgot.) MIT CSAIL CIS talk: Joe Silverman, 2 October 2009:

  • Total audience: 31
  • Men in audience: 27
  • Women in attendance: 4
  • Women missing: 23 (85%)
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