Shaundra Daily is a digital native currently completing her PhD in the Affective Computing Group (the intergroup) at the prestigious MIT Media Lab. Within the
Michael Lang 07.11.2010 "If current trends continue, by 2018 the information technology industry will only be able to fill half of its available jobs."
-- Catherine Ashcraft, Ph.D. and Sarah Blithe, NCWIT, in research paper "Women In IT: The Facts"
Michael Lang 06.24.2010 "If I ever want to find a game designer, I go to the storage closet, and when I open the door there will be six people standing there with their resumes. The problem is that none of them will be female, and none of them will be people of color. They will simply be white males."
-- Sheri Grainer Ray, a game designer, in NPR article "So, Only White Men Can Be Game Designers?"
Michael Lang 06.24.2010 "Technology careers offer a great paycheck. Obviously, the more computer-literate you are, the better your options will be. But there's also plenty of room in tech for people who aren't good at math."
--Holly Hirzel, Lead Producer for "1 vs. 100", Xbox Live in interview with ZDNet's Mary-Jo Foley
Michael Lang 05.26.2010 "We are focusing on young women because we want to develop a pipeline of women who are empowered and independent. We want to give young women a stronger foundation in technology skills, which I believe is essential to developing their economic empowerment."
