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Slide 6 shows a college-age girl who doesn't match the CS stereotype uploading her brain to the great interbot -- it shows that tech is for everyone, not just u
by etal 16y ago
Slide 6 shows a college-age girl who doesn't match the CS stereotype uploading her brain to the great interbot -- it shows that tech is for everyone, not just unattractive and friendless geeks.
Slide 13 compares CS at MIT to steak at a steakhouse, and salad to any other major. As far as I can tell, most women prefer steak to salad, given the choice and no strong social pressures either way.
I'd say this slide set is much more encouraging to women in CS than discouraging.
- joshuaeckroth 16y agoI'm not sure slide 6 counts as a positive viewing of women. The Facebook page is obviously doctored (such as "Sex: San Francisco, CA"). Her "Activities" are "food stuff, art, fixing up the house, friends." She is supposedly a Stanford Alum but remember this talk was at MIT. She also works at "NoddaCorp." I also feel slide 6 is generally a negative view of CS, since it refers to "The Matrix", and the joke in the notes is about how people already upload their brains to the web and escape "real-life". Finally, "these are some of the LESS interesting things we talk about in computer science!" This slide does not show that creating tech is for everyone, simply that, in this case women at least, make significant use of it (for better or worse...).