Harry Mudd (who got the robots he deserved):
Harvey Mudd? As in Harcort Fenton Mudd? From Star Trek?
FWIW, in 1987 my CS-101 class at SUNY Stony Brook had hundreds of students, and just a handful were female. This isn't anything new.
Mark
Harvey Mudd is a really, really good school. Small and focused on math and science, so it doesn’t make headlines.
The number of women in CS has actually gone down since the 80s, probably because of the introduction of “computer information technology” type degrees. There were always a few other women in my CS classes but most of them were interested in web or database design. By the time I got to grad school I was usually one of maybe 2 or 3 American women in my classes.
Didn’t bug me, I don’t like being around other women much either. There’s a lot of good reasons women don’t go into computer science, most of which say more about our school systems or the industry than anything else.
Harry Mudd (who got the robots he deserved):
That was Harry Mudd, and I always do a double-take on that school's name, too.
I got my CS degree in 1980, and including the grad students, we numbered 17 or 18.
There may have been 2 women in the graduate class, and 5 in the undergrad class. All were competent, and one even got a double major in Math.
“FWIW, in 1987 my CS-101 class at SUNY Stony Brook had hundreds of students, and just a handful were female. This isn’t anything new.”
My Assembler language programming course in 1990 started with 58 students. 17 men and 0 women took the final exam.