Other posters have already pointed out that the author is male; I wanted to add that it is quite common for academic computer science texts to use feminine pron

Other posters have already pointed out that the author is male; I wanted to add that it is quite common for academic computer science texts to use feminine pronouns. For example, the first slide from the following link has such an an excerpt from the classic _Operating System Concepts_ by Silberschatz and Galvin (aka the "dinosaur book"): http://main.metaprl.org/jyh/classes/cs134/cs134a/2000/slides/lec6/slides.pdf http://main.metaprl.org/jyh/classes/cs134/cs134a/2000/slides...