Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!pasteur!agate!brad%looking.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET From: brad%looking.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Brad Templeton) Newsgroups: comp.society.women Subject: Women Wizards? Message-ID: <11843@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 8 Jul 88 18:39:11 GMT Sender: usenet@agate.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 10 Approved: skyler@violet.berkeley.edu (Moderator -- Trish Roberts) Comments-to: comp-women-request@cs.purdue.edu Submissions-to: comp-women@cs.purdue.edu Yes, I think Grace Hopper qualifies. But I'm not sure when I hear the word "Wizard" it conjures up "top support person" or corporate programmer. To me that means the true creators of the industry. The ones who made the big discoveries or wrote the landmark programs almost single-handedly. Folks like Bill Gates, Dennis Ritchie. There are only a thousand or so of these people in the world, perhaps. They are almost all men, with Admiral Hopper one of the very few exceptions. This is the question we should answer. I have a general answer, later.