BIFF

Amy and I are long-time supporters of the Boulder International Film Festival . The 2019 festival starts soon and runs from February 28 to March 3rd. Bias, one of the documentaries that we helped fund, is making its Colorado Premier and showing on Saturday, March 2, 2019 at 10:00 am. Robin Hauser, the director, is spectacular. Amy and I supported her previous moving Code: Debugging the Gender Gap , which was dynamite, incredibly informative, and very accessible. ...

On Saturday I went to two films at the Boulder International Film Festival – Code: Debugging the Gender Gap and A Good American . Both were excellent and worth watching, but Code was special for me as its an issue I’ve been helping work on for over a decade. When I joined the National Center for Women & Information Technology board as the chair in 2005, it was a nascent organization and the issue of the small number of women in computer science, while often talked about, wasn’t well understood. Today, not only is the issue well understood, but many of the solutions are clear and being talked openly about, such as in the article At Harvey Mudd College, the Ratio of Women in Computer Science Increased from 10% to 40% in 5 Years ...