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Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

Posted by: barbara | Date: Apr 11, 2009 | Category: girl geeks | Comments: 0

This is about a month late, but I wanted to make some mention of it before too much time has passed.

In March, the news broke that Barbara Liskov was the winner of this year's Turing Award.

You may never have heard of the Turing Award, or indeed of ...

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Happy (belated) Ada Lovelace Day

Posted by: barbara | Date: Mar 25, 2009 | Category: ald09 girl geeks | Comments: 1

Whoa, look at the date on that last post. A lot has changed since then - I went back to work in a PHP shop, all the while intending to keep doing Python/Django on the side, but I haven't been able to make as much time for that as I ...

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That's right, the women are smarter

Posted by: barbara | Date: Jul 28, 2008 | Category: girl geeks | Comments: 0
Girls Close the "Math Gap" [Alternet] Gender Similarities Characterize Math Performance [Science Magazine] Girls Bridge Gender Divide in Math [ABC News]

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apparently, we're a phenomenon now

Posted by: barbara | Date: Jun 21, 2008 | Category: girl geeks | Comments: 0
Nerdy Girls Have Attained Sexy Status [AlterNet]

Revenge of the Nerdette [Newsweek]

Do Women Write Better Code? [Slashdot]



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