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From: jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck)
Newsgroups: comp.society.women
Subject: Re: Women Wizards?
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Date: 10 Jul 88 02:06:09 GMT
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In article <11843@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> brad%looking.uucp@RELAY.CS.NET (Brad Templeton) writes:
>To me that ["wizard"] 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.
Well, there's Adele Goldberg, one of the authors of Smalltalk and
a key member of the Xerox PARC group who invented most of the key
ideas you see in Macintoshes and such. Certainly she should count.
She does get recognition -- she's been president of ACM and
was the keynote speaker at Usenix.
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