Emeritus Prof Christopher May on nostr

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It seems appropriate today to highlight the call by Wendy Hall for more females to get involved in computer science...

Numbers of females being educated in computing has halved in the last 10 years, with now around 25% of computing students at university being women.

If AI & other technologies are to be more attuned to female needs & interests, this decline needs to be reversed & computing become less of a male dominated domain!

#AI #women #InternationalWomensDay
https://observer.co.uk/news/national/article/misogynistic-robots-a-real-risk-unless-more-girls-get-into-computing

Chip Butty · 4w

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Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: · 4w

nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg0tuf634rz4suczwj7kgnecr6cyt0eu9xmp3sp0fku68mqehq4mstcx9tq The encouragement needs to start from an early age. Little boys of my generation got Amigas and Commodore 64s and learned coding from typing in the code from magazines, fixing bugs. In...

Jen · 4w

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