A young cousin of mine taking a University of California at Berkeley computer course was really upset that the professor had shown this highly acclaimed video, Triumph of the Nerds. It leaves out any role women have ever had in computing, ... The women in this class get the message that they have to be different or strange to get into this field.
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None of these devices address that women keep track of many people's lives, not just their own.Anita Borg
We'll try to be a catalyst for development projects that include women at all levels - in the design and development process.
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Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in - real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it's going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand.
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Women will change the corporation more than we expect.
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I want all of these folks connected. We're all doing too much reinventing of the wheel, ... The Internet enables us to share the ideas we have without having to create another hierarchy. We hope that these two projects will come together and create a structure of continued involvement.
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