Archive for August, 2010

Students who did not have the privilege of hacking since they were young are at a disadvantage in Computer Science (CS). However, CS departments can teach introductory programming using an obscure functional programming language to ...

When not making music and splattering it unceremoniously across the Internet, Lindsey Kuper braindumps on her blog about life as a computer science Ph.D. student and human being. It took her fully half an hour ...

I’ve been working on a rather silly but entertaining project for the past few weeks: It’s a hat, that’s also a compass.  There are LEDs in the brim – whichever is pointed North is the ...

(Cross-posted from my personal blog.) It should be no surprise that I am thrilled – nay, bubbling over with effervescent happiness – that Elena Kagan was confirmed today to the U.S. Supreme Court. As of ...

We’d love to feature more guest posts on Geek Feminism, and we accept proposals at any time. But relying on self-nominations from our core audience, women, is problematic due to social training against self-promotion. So ...

Pewter is a geek of Virtual Worlds and Imagined Spaces. By reading far too many books and keeping some excellent company she has managed to become somewhat opinionated. She blogs at MentalShaman while she treads ...

Gail Carmichael muses upon What Your Identity Has to Do With Learning including how this affects women in technology. Open to Everyone: How Open Source Communities Can Benefit from Diversity Without Disunity: Open source is ...