More about looking for geek role models

Posted on October 6th, 2005 by Sacha Chua

I hope Google does a better job with your tech talk than they did at Purdue. A few things rankled me. Like bringing in an equal number of men and women to the talk, but no computer scientists among the women, just recruiters. All of the men, by contrast, were computer scientists.

You know, he has an interesting point there.

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