Comments on: Not your average film critique http://beckyblab.com/not-your-average-film-critique/115/ A quest for clarity Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:02:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: bagchi02 http://beckyblab.com/not-your-average-film-critique/115/comment-page-1/#comment-27 bagchi02 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 08:58:00 +0000 http://beckyblab.com/not-your-average-film-critique/115/#comment-27 Hey Becky, Yes you did give due credit, thanks. There are quite a few female computer science professors (although the fraction is low, two out of twenty in my department.) The Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing is held annually and is probably the largest technical conference exclusively devoted to women scientists and technologists. The second thing, a part of this essay was included in a reader for essay writing classes called The Contemporary Reader some years ago. And some time later I got an email from an English teacher who was trying to figure out how many of the people who wrote these essays in freshman composition readers were women. She hadn't been able to tell from my name whether I was male or female. And, she had had guessed from my affiliation to Computer Science that I was male. What can I say? Sigh. Amitabha PS: As for finding your link, like everyone else I like to ego google from time to time :-) Hey Becky,

Yes you did give due credit, thanks.

There are quite a few female computer science professors (although the fraction is low, two out of twenty in my department.) The Grace Hopper celebration of women in computing is held annually and is probably the largest technical conference exclusively devoted to women scientists and technologists.

The second thing, a part of this essay was included in a reader for essay writing classes called The Contemporary Reader some years ago. And some time later I got an email from an English teacher who was trying to figure out how many of the people who wrote these essays in freshman composition readers were women. She hadn’t been able to tell from my name whether I was male or female. And, she had had guessed from my affiliation to Computer Science that I was male.

What can I say? Sigh.

Amitabha

PS: As for finding your link, like everyone else I like to ego google from time to time :-)

]]> By: bexband http://beckyblab.com/not-your-average-film-critique/115/comment-page-1/#comment-26 bexband Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:37:45 +0000 http://beckyblab.com/not-your-average-film-critique/115/#comment-26 Hi Amitabha, Yes I realised that! But I hope I gave you due credit ;) I certainly wasn't expecting to hear from you--how did you find out that I linked to your site? Actually please excuse me but I thought you were a woman, hence the exclamation point... Becky Hi Amitabha,
Yes I realised that! But I hope I gave you due credit ;) I certainly wasn’t expecting to hear from you–how did you find out that I linked to your site? Actually please excuse me but I thought you were a woman, hence the exclamation point…

Becky

]]> By: bagchi02 http://beckyblab.com/not-your-average-film-critique/115/comment-page-1/#comment-25 bagchi02 Sat, 22 Sep 2007 05:23:54 +0000 http://beckyblab.com/not-your-average-film-critique/115/#comment-25 Dear Becky, The blogger purple passion has basically plagiarized large portions of my essay for the segment of the entry about the film Mohra. Not quite ethical, but what does one do? In any case, thanks for the parenthetical exclamation point :-) Amitabha Dear Becky,

The blogger purple passion has basically plagiarized large portions of my essay for the segment of the entry about the film Mohra. Not quite ethical, but what does one do?

In any case, thanks for the parenthetical exclamation point :-)

Amitabha

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