An article from Forbes debunks the myth that women cannot do math and science. In the article, the career path of Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox Copr., is highlighted along with those of other leading business women.
The article mentions other ‘visible women scientists’ that are rising to the top of corporate America. Included in this list is Virginia Rometty, IL G ’79, of IBM and Joanne Maguire, MI A ’75, of Lockheed Martin.
Read the full article about women with science degrees that are busting the myth that women cannot do math or science and cannot become leaders of large, global companies.
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Google has announced the purchase of reCaptcha, a company that “develops online word puzzles to serve both as Web-site security and to help digitize printed text.”
Software engineer Colin McMillen, MN A ’03, receives credit with five others for reCaptcha, which originated from a project of the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
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In conjunction with the recent Microsoft & Yahoo deal, Google is actively publicizing its desire to hire Yahoo Search engineers.
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