In his 2015 CES Keynote, Intel CEO announced Brian Krzanich announced a $300 million investment in training and recruiting female and other groups of under-represented computer scientists. The goal is to achieve “full representation” of women and minorities by 2020 at Intel and within the Intel supplier pipelines. The Intel announcement follows other diversity initiatives that … [Read more...]
Gender Diversity Study “In Science, It Matters That Women Come Last”
FiveThirtyEightScience continues the study of gender diversity with their article, "In Science, It Matters That Women Come Last". The author, Emma Pierson, downloaded and statistically analyzed 938,301 scientific papers from the arXiv, a website where physicists, mathematicians and other scientists often post their papers and inferred the authors’ gender from their first … [Read more...]