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Subject: Re: Investigation of women .

Author: Rémi Coulom

Date: 02:45:32 12/11/98

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On December 10, 1998 at 16:31:25, Steven Schwartz wrote:

>On December 10, 1998 at 15:00:56, Chris Moreton wrote:
>
>>It would be strange if there is not even one female who reads this site.  Of the
>>three Artificial Intelligence lecturers under whom I studied at University, two
>>were women, including one who supervised my chess programming project.  Also the
>>author of one of the most useful books I had when I started writing chess
>>programs was written by Elaine Rich (Artificial Intelligence. McGraw-Hill
>>(1983)) who I assume is female.  How many members are then in the CCC?
>>
>>-Chris
>
>We now have 4588 members.
>I get a chance to see the new members' names when
>they sign up, and my best guess is that I have come
>across about 30 to 40 female names. But I do not
>recall any female actually posting here. Anyone
>else recall?
>- Steve (ICD/Your Move)

I suggested a question about this for the opinion poll a few months ago. Maybe
it would be interesting to ask questions like these :

Are you a male or a female ?
Do you consider computer chess as an addiction that makes you lose contact with
the real life ?
...

Remi



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