Ada Lovelace devised the first program. Grace Hopper wrote the first complier. Margaret Hamilton started the field of software engineering. Women have always been and will always be essential to the advance of computing.https://twitter.com/louisemensch/status/1015775582263627776 …
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At the highest, most pure level of abstraction, I agree with you. But in all other aspects of the human elements of computing, with all due respect, I think you are profoundly wrong.
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Likewise, dear Grady!
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And Joscha, reframe my statement in this manner: have men impeded the contributions of women in the field of computing? Regretfully, there is considerable evidence this is true. How then might computing have been were it not so?
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Rational thought has no gender, nor is it exclusive to any gender. Computation is a means to an ends, not an ends itself
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That may be, but one's lived experience and resulting perspectives on things are surely brought to
#computing just as with other endeavours. One only need to look at demonstrated biases in#AI for example as proof of this. - 2 more replies
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