Christie’s auction house is conducting a sale of The Origins of Cyberspace: A Library on the History of Computing, Networking & Telecommunications. Among the items up for bids is a paper on programming by Grace Hopper. How much for a corner of a page? ;-)
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- Study: Girls equal to boys in math skills I'm a bit late on tagging this story, but for those that missed it: in the largest study of its kind, researchers found no difference in the math scores of boys and girls -- not even in high school. Women are now earning 48% of undergrad degrees in math.
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