Year: 2007

As if I didn’t already have enough to do in my First Life, I logged on for a Second Life. Second Life (SL) is “a 3-D virtual world entirely created […]

This brief paper concludes the Gender and IT Entrepreneurship project that we conducted for NCWIT with support from the Kauffman Foundation. In this final paper, we present a high-level overview

My mother always knew that the most effective way to get me to do something was not to force me. Commands like, “Clean your room,” were never spoken. Instead, she

Some of you may have seen the article in today’s NY Times, “Study Compares States’ Math and Science Scores With Other Countries’”, about a recent research report that compares 8th

We all attended the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2007 conference recently, and hats off to the Anita Borg Institute for doing such a super job of running

Thomas Friedman had an interesting piece in last week’s NY Times about “Generation Q” – the generation of young people today whom he calls The Quiet Americans – and why

I spent Tuesday and Wednesday last week at EmTech ’07 — the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT — a conference produced by Technology Review. The conference included an extraordinary number