BurningbirdI have been remiss in congratulating Halley Suitt for breaking into another bastion of geek brotherhood – ITConversations. Her new Memory Lane interview series is an interesting addition to the lineup, and I’ve enjoyed listening to her recent interviews with Joi Ito and Dan Bricklin. I personally think that Susan Hockfield, the new President of MIT, would be an exceptionally good candidate for […]
When I worked at the Women’s Center at Yakima Valley Community College back in the late 70’s, I interviewed the head instructor of our mechanical engineering program about women participating in his program. I remember him saying that he welcomed women into the program, as long as they were serious about studying in the field. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I liked what Kevin Murphy had to say in the comments to the post “In Defense of Michelle Malkin”: The only thing you can learn of substance from such an adverserial segment is that it’s pointless to expect to learn anything by listening to two unprepared pundits argue it out on TV. […]
Dare Obasanjo wrote a terrific post in response to my noticing that the Applied XML Conference had no women speakers. He listed out several women in the XML world who would be great speakers, several of whom I was familiar and agree with him, 100%. In particular, I would be intrigued by a presentation by Lanqing Dai, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sam Ruby has posted a note about the upcoming Applied XML Conference put on by Chris Sells. When I looked at the agenda and realized that the conference managed to put together two days worth of presentations without one woman speaker, I was moved to note in comments at Sam’s: For entertainment, is the […]