When we first meet with the kids, we ask them to close their eyes and describe what they see when they imagine a computer professional at work," said Siek. "They usually conjure up images of a male, socially-challenged nerd working in isolation at a computer. The presenters then show them pictures of actual computing professionals both at work and in their free time to demonstrate that they can be normal people, too. | laboratorytalk via acm

no mam, they are maniacs, schizophrenic phobes, playing with slide rules if you don't watch them. joder, where are they growing up?

what's that. while trying to understand gödel machine i went over to chris just to read again an annoying chapter of kurzweil's dilemma; technews delivered a story on irobot and its believer, followed by a story about a giant baby for the wm ...

not my day.

stuart I. feldman or telle whitney? software versus hardware, when i read their biographies ...