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Something that occurred to me when I first saw this video is the number of women featured, I can't say with certainty if I've seen a recent major tech demo vide

by bigdubs 12y ago

Something that occurred to me when I first saw this video is the number of women featured, I can't say with certainty if I've seen a recent major tech demo video from a large company feature as many.

jimktrains2 12y ago
I noticed the same thing when watching the SICP lectures (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PL8FE88AA54363BC46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PL8FE88AA54...)
larrys 12y ago
One of the women, Lorinda Cherry raced rally cars as a hobby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry Here's an interview with her that I just dug up: http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/cherry.htm http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/cherry.htm
nofinator 12y ago
This was right around the peak of CS degrees awarded to women: 37% in 1984.
- CalRobert 12y ago
  Thank you for mentioning this - there's a perception that CS and tech has always been male dominated, but there were plenty of women programmers in the 80's and the field has become even more male-dominated since. It's really annoying that one of the primary qualifications for tech CEO's is apparently 'be a tall man, ideally white but Asian is OK too' "In the United States, the number of women represented in undergraduate computer science education and the white-collar information technology workforce peaked in the mid-1980s, and has declined ever since" -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing
  - maaku 12y ago
    There was, in fact, a point in time when programming was 100% dominated by women.
    - CalRobert 12y ago
      Indeed! At one point a "computer" was a person, and this was also a field where women were relatively well represented (when compared to other fields during the same time periods). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
  - Dewie 12y ago
    Who'd have thought that women could be nerds, too.
- peterwwillis 12y ago
  Yep. Interesting reading: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-computer-programming-was-womens-work/2011/08/24/gIQAdixGgJ_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-computer-program...

by bigdubs 12y ago

Something that occurred to me when I first saw this video is the number of women featured, I can't say with certainty if I've seen a recent major tech demo video from a large company feature as many.

jimktrains2 12y ago

I noticed the same thing when watching the SICP lectures (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PL8FE88AA54363BC46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Op3QLzMgSY&list=PL8FE88AA54...)

larrys 12y ago

One of the women, Lorinda Cherry raced rally cars as a hobby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorinda_Cherry Here's an interview with her that I just dug up: http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/cherry.htm http://www.princeton.edu/~hos/mike/transcripts/cherry.htm

nofinator 12y ago

This was right around the peak of CS degrees awarded to women: 37% in 1984.

CalRobert 12y ago
Thank you for mentioning this - there's a perception that CS and tech has always been male dominated, but there were plenty of women programmers in the 80's and the field has become even more male-dominated since. It's really annoying that one of the primary qualifications for tech CEO's is apparently 'be a tall man, ideally white but Asian is OK too' "In the United States, the number of women represented in undergraduate computer science education and the white-collar information technology workforce peaked in the mid-1980s, and has declined ever since" -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_computing
- maaku 12y ago
  There was, in fact, a point in time when programming was 100% dominated by women.
  - CalRobert 12y ago
    Indeed! At one point a "computer" was a person, and this was also a field where women were relatively well represented (when compared to other fields during the same time periods). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_computer
- Dewie 12y ago
  Who'd have thought that women could be nerds, too.
peterwwillis 12y ago
Yep. Interesting reading: http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-computer-programming-was-womens-work/2011/08/24/gIQAdixGgJ_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-computer-program...