On Girls, Boys, and IT Careers
A couple of weeks ago, there was a totally fabulous talk at Google: Dr. Cornelia Brunner of the Center for...
Archive for Gender
Author gender algorithm
I've developed what I think is a fairly accurate (but entirely useless to most of the world) algorithm for a computer to automatically guess the gender of an author who submits to SH...
Lockpick Pornography: The Novel
I've posted a couple of times in the past year about Joey Comeau's short novel Lockpick Pornography--first when I first...
Girls on teh intarweb?????
The other day, I finally got around to reading Cory Doctorow's story "Anda's Game," published in Salon about a year...
Call for subs: She’s Such a Geek
Annalee Newitz and Charlie Anders are editing an anthology of essays titled She's Such a Geek; below is a copy...
Items: Sex, sexuality, gender
Much of the following is not worksafe. In some cases, not even my description of it is worksafe. Interesting entry...
Items: Browser window closeout
These items have no theme (well, okay, maybe "gender and genre"?); just wanting to close some browser windows. I think...
Another gender guesser
Geoff's Gender Guesser attempts to determine whether a given name is more likely a male name or a female name,...
Short hair belongs to men
I was having dinner with a group of friends a couple months ago when I realized that, in a reversal...
Thoreau on journaling
A conversation with Karen M. the other night somehow came 'round to the Transcendentalists, which reminded me of one of...
Gendered language
Jean pointed to The Gender Genie, where you enter some text and it applies the Koppel-Argamon algorithm (or perhaps that...
Computer can determine author sex?
Interesting item in Nature: "Computer program detects author gender." Claim is that "[the] simple scan of key words and syntax...