What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?

NY Times ^ | November 16, 2008 | RANDALL STROSS

[Myrddin]

I'll check out NUS Instruments, thanks for the tip. That wouldn't interfere with your flow of work from them, would it?

No. I don't work with them very often. The microcontroller fix was necessary to average out noise on a temperature monitoring circuit that turn out to be 3x higher than previously disclosed. I simply showed them a faster way to accomplish the filter on the 8051. That brought the update rate into compliance. End of task.

The company is currently owned by Curtiss Wright. It was previously owned by Scientech. Owners change, the core business doesn't. You can find info at this link. Bob Queenan is the engineering manager.

My designs are all surface mount as well. Mostly to reduce mass on boards used in high G environments on rail cars.

[Starwolf]

For Christmas after she was accepted in the Comp Sci program my daugher got the Knuth Vol 1-3 in hardback from me. She did not understand why until later. Unfortunately I can not get Vol 4 in the same look.

[Myrddin]

I'm similarly disappointed in not have a hardback Vol 4 that matches Vol 1-3. Still, the combinatorial topic is very relevant to my original field of molecular biology and genetics. Doing factorial calculations with a simple add, subtract,multiply,divide calculator was no fun. My graduation gift was an HP25. In a matter of days, I had cobbled up programs on the HP25 to replace most of the tables in the Schaum's Genetics book. In my freshman physics class, I was calculating square roots with an approximation method while my classmates pushed a button on their HP35 calculators. I kept a slide rule with me to get the first approximation on the calculator :-(