Computing science rewriting the program to get girls in the game
Computing science professor Duane Szafron and fellow University of Alberta researcher Maria Cutumisu proved that if you want to get more females interested in computing science, you have "to rewrite the program, so to speak."
Posted by GRAND NCE, February 14, 2011
University of Alberta professor Duane Szafron and Maria Cutumisu
Photo credit: University of Alberta
"Computing science professor Duane Szafron and fellow University of Alberta researchers Mike Carbonaro, Jonathan Schaeffer and Maria Cutumisu say that women in computing science are rare, but their study shows that if you want to get more females interested in computing science, you have to rewrite the program, so to speak."
Part of BELIEVE, one of 34 projects within the GRAND network, their results were recently published in Computers & Education, the longest-running established international journal in its field.
Read story by Jamie Hanlon, Express News, University of Alberta
Additional media coverage, Study: Girls can design videogames, too posted at United Press International (UPI)