Comments on: Top Ten Girl Geeks, or C|Net Completely Misses the Point http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/ Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:25:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Intardetritus « Tlönista http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-6717 Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:48:02 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-6717 [...] Intardetritus 09Dec06 So there’s a Slashdot thread about the 100th anniversary of Grace Hopper’s birth. Hopper’s one of the few actually geeky women who got onto that lame top-10 list a while ago. She was a Rear Admiral in the US Navy and an accomplished computer scientist who developed COBOL — serious geek cred there. (You’ve probably heard about how she coined “debugging” after she found a moth inside the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.) [...] […] Intardetritus 09Dec06 So there’s a Slashdot thread about the 100th anniversary of Grace Hopper’s birth. Hopper’s one of the few actually geeky women who got onto that lame top-10 list a while ago. She was a Rear Admiral in the US Navy and an accomplished computer scientist who developed COBOL — serious geek cred there. (You’ve probably heard about how she coined “debugging” after she found a moth inside the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator.) […]

]]> by: angelicnoir http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-64 Tue, 28 Nov 2006 00:19:59 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-64 So... I would name ANY, and I mean, ANY Frag Doll as famous Girl Gamer instead of Paris Hilton. So… I would name ANY, and I mean, ANY Frag Doll as famous Girl Gamer instead of Paris Hilton.

]]> by: KoryWells http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-59 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:46:56 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-59 Neither of the following may be "as geeky" as Annalee's suggestions, but they immediately came to my mind as women prominent in the media who I'd sure pick over Paris Hilton as being positive role models for girls in math and science... Danica McKellar - the actress ("West Wing," "Wonder Years," and more) who has a B.S. in math from UCLA and is this year's national spokesperson for Math-a-Thon. Her web site even has a math section. Kim Comando - with 10 million listeners to her weekly call-in radio show, in my book she deserves the title she's claimed as "America's Digital Goddess." Neither of the following may be “as geeky” as Annalee’s suggestions, but they immediately came to my mind as women prominent in the media who I’d sure pick over Paris Hilton as being positive role models for girls in math and science…

Danica McKellar - the actress (”West Wing,” “Wonder Years,” and more) who has a B.S. in math from UCLA and is this year’s national spokesperson for Math-a-Thon. Her web site even has a math section.

Kim Comando - with 10 million listeners to her weekly call-in radio show, in my book she deserves the title she’s claimed as “America’s Digital Goddess.”

]]> by: Annalee http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-58 Mon, 27 Nov 2006 00:24:16 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-58 Women missing from the list: Barbara Simons, first woman president of the Association for Computing Machinery and a tireless advocate for voting machine reform. Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Robotic Life group at MIT's Media Lab. Nancy Kanwisher, neuroscientist who discovered the "face recognition" center of the brain Xiaoyun Wang, cryptographer who discovered collision attacks on the supposedly unbreakable SHA-1 hash function Women missing from the list:

Barbara Simons, first woman president of the Association for Computing Machinery and a tireless advocate for voting machine reform.

Cynthia Breazeal, director of the Robotic Life group at MIT’s Media Lab.

Nancy Kanwisher, neuroscientist who discovered the “face recognition” center of the brain

Xiaoyun Wang, cryptographer who discovered collision attacks on the supposedly unbreakable SHA-1 hash function

]]> by: mary hodder http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-55 Sun, 26 Nov 2006 20:10:09 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-55 i can see daryl hannah.. depending on the criteria (famous first, geeky second?) because she has diligently been working away on her video blog for some time, and it's good stuff and fits the internet. it's not mainstream format shoveled into the internet. and for that, i've been very appreciative. few people who started in mainstream seem to get what's good about internet media. i can see daryl hannah.. depending on the criteria (famous first, geeky second?) because she has diligently been working away on her video blog for some time, and it’s good stuff and fits the internet. it’s not mainstream format shoveled into the internet. and for that, i’ve been very appreciative. few people who started in mainstream seem to get what’s good about internet media.

]]> by: Heidi's author http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-42 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 19:51:05 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-42 I predict that 2007 will be the Year of the Geek Girl. I predict that 2007 will be the Year of the Geek Girl.

]]> by: charlieanders http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-38 Thu, 23 Nov 2006 05:53:30 +0000 http://www.shessuchageek.com/2006/11/22/top-ten-girl-geeks-or-cnet-completely-misses-the-point/#comment-38 I'm almost speechless. Who comes up with this stuff? I’m almost speechless. Who comes up with this stuff?

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