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  Stereotype - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Often a stereotype is a negative caricature or inversion of some positive characteristic possessed by members of a group, exaggerated to the point where it becomes repulsive or ridiculous.
Stereotypes are common in the world of drama, where the term is often used as a form of dramatic shorthand for "stock character".
For example, the stereotypical devil is a red, impish character with horns, bifurcated tail, and a pitchfork (actually a trident), whilst the stereotypical salesman is a slickly-dressed, fast-talking individual who cannot usually be trusted.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stereotype   (810 words)

  
 Computing for a Purpose
We refer to this orientation as "computing for a purpose." In this paper, we examine the nature of these two different attachments and discuss the implications for computer science education (curriculum, pedagogy, and culture) if greater numbers of potentially interested women are to be attracted to and engaged with the field.
The computer for them is the ultimate toy and they get "hooked." They become "intensely fascinated." "Play" and "fun" are the words that they use when they describe their first experiences with computers.
While love of computing is the overwhelming reason why most of the males in our study major in computer science, women cite a more varied array of reasons for their decision to major.
www.cs.cmu.edu /afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/gendergap/www/purpose.html   (4139 words)

  
 Pseudo-scientific rumors on computer geek.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
While we have interviewed some self-described computer geeks who tell us that computers are the primary passion of their lives, our research reveals successful computer science students, both male and female, with a wider variety of interests and ways of relating to the computer than the stereotype portrays.
They are more likely to conclude that they do not belong in computer science because they do not have the same relationship to the computer and do not know as much about computing as their male peers.
Persistence and Resistance Until the long-range goal of gender integration and cultural/curricular change in computer science is accomplished, it appears that an important component of women's persistence in the major involves conscious resistance to the dominant culture.
scienster.com /netpreneur.chtml   (921 words)

  
 British Psychological Society
Whether boys see computers as toys and girls see computers as tools based on their role models remains to be examined.
It forcefully illustrated the development of stereotypes of computer users during adolescence with the pre-dominant appraisal by late adolescence for both sexes of computer users as young ‘geek-like’ males.
Stereotypes of computer users as male seemed well established for both sexes by late adolescence.
www.le.ac.uk /psychology/eavm1/poster.london2000.html   (1203 words)

  
 Java, Women and the Culture of Computing
Computing is very passionate, colorful and masculine; feeling comfortable with computing is not just a matter of acquiring technical skills.
The purpose of this inquiry is to expose the language and cultural norms of computing.
When women in computing were asked for their definition of nerd, they replied that nerds were considered overwhelmingly to be young, white males with glasses and bad clothing.
turbo.kean.edu /~dbernste/naccq.html   (3985 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The stereotypes that tend to solidify (rather than dissipate) during adolescence only further the perception that computers are something "male." Games, in their current dominant form, tend to reinforce this stereotype.
Women are more drawn to computing with a sense of purpose, e.g., contextual concers, creative overlaps with computing, the versatility of the field in terms of application areas.
In addition, there is room for offering views of CS and computation that counter the stereotype at all levels of the curriculum, both in class and outside of it.
www.cs.hmc.edu /wincs/clubhouse.html   (1225 words)

  
 The Shuttle XPC and Linux Revolution. Part I - Installation.
Computer cases are now available in a variety of materials, from elegant brushed aluminium to clear perspex, with designs ranging from a clean, almost puritanical box, through to artistic designs with references to the classic shapes of the art deco period.
It is easy to knock Microsoft, but the success of home computer and its penetration into the home on a scale unimaginable a decade ago is due, almost exclusively, to their vision of bringing computing to the masses.
And so, it is quite feasible that whilst the beige box and Microsoft dominated home computing in the 1990’s, the first decade of the 21st century may see the growth of a new model for computing: the small form factor PC and Linux.
www.sudhian.com /index.php?/articles/show/290   (1404 words)

  
 Women in Computer Sciences: Reversing the Trend: Campus Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Further discouraging women in computing is an incorrect stereotype that computing is a solitary and antisocial activity.
To help counteract this stereotype, computer science faculty can adopt cooperative learning techniques in their classroom, assign group problem-solving activities, and invite local industry employees (preferably women) to the campus to discuss a typical day at their job.
Specifically, if a computing department moves from a non-engineering college to an engineering college, the department can expect an 18 to 26 percent decrease in bachelor's and master's degrees awarded to women and a 7 to 8 percent decrease in doctoral degrees awarded to women in their department.
www.campus-technology.com /article.asp?id=4576&p=3   (585 words)

  
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>, is a stereotype of UML's Collaboration metaclass.
A stereotype may be a subtype of one or more existing stereotypes (which must all refer the same baseClass, or baseClasses that derive from the same baseClass), UML 1.4 introduces a well-formedness rule for the above and gives an example: A stereotype may be a subclass of one or more existing stereotypes.
For instance, if a stereotype s with a base class b is defined then a stereotype t that has s as is superclass has either b or any subclass of b as its base class value.
www.omg.org /docs/ad/01-08-26.doc   (1020 words)

  
 [No title]
This is certainly true in computing; consider the number of times that promised software or hardware introductions have been delayed when the promised power of the new product could not be provided on schedule.
Intoxication with power may also lead one to apply computers to perceived problems not because the computer can help solve the problem, but because a ``computerized'' solution is by definition more valuable than a ``manual'' one.
The stereotype of the computer ``geek'' who prefers to spend time with the computer he understands rather than the complicated people around him that he can never understand is all too real.
www.eecis.udel.edu /~baskinge/cs/assume.txt   (3185 words)

  
 Stereotype - Voyager, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Stereotypes are seen by many as undesirable beliefs which can be altered through education and/or familiarization.
Common stereotypes include a variety of allegations about groups based around: race, ethnicity, sexuality, nationality, and religious belief, and also profession, social status and wealth (see social stereotype).
Media stereotypes change and evolve over time - for instance, we now instantly recognise only a few of the stereotyped characters shown to us in John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, and the stereotypical 1970s effete gay man depicted by John Inman in Are You Being Served?
www.voyager.in /Stereotype   (769 words)

  
 INQUIRY UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH JOURNAL   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Female computing professors and professionals are likely to bring diverse perspectives to the design, implementation, and management of computer-related systems and businesses, and be better able to address student and user needs from the standpoint of the female half of the population.
Phrasing computing in terms of battle and other stereotypically masculine pursuits, a Kansas man wrote "we have to sit in a chair and 'fight' a compiler/debugger until we win (program runs)" as his explanation for why the field is gendered masculine (003051m).
Genet chose to study why international women may participate in computer science as a group more frequently than American women, examining the possible causes of why this many be true, and proposing possible ways to increase the participation of American women in computer science based on her observations and results.
www.uark.edu /rd_vcad/urel/publications/inquiry/2004/1688_ENG_HTML.htm   (8982 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Onion Johnny from the Roscoff area of Brittany was the image of the stereotypical Breton.
For example in the case of fls, the positive stereotype of athletic ability plays into the negative stereotype of not being intellectually advanced; it can also play into various sexual stereotypes about the African American male.
As for the Asians, their positive intellectual stereotype is often associated with the socially awkward nerd image, a negative stereotype in Western society.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/S/Stereotype.htm   (222 words)

  
 Coalition to Diversify Computing
Many students are put off by the popular stereotype of the computer scientist as a lone programmer, toiling away in a cubicle with little human contact.
Students come away with a broader understanding of computing, a stronger confidence in their own abilities, a decreased sense of isolation within their field, and an increased interest in pursuing similar work in graduate school.
The Coalition to Diversify Computing (CDC) is a joint organization of the ACM, CRA and IEEE Computing Society (http://www.cdc-computing.org/).
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu /Outreach/CDC/news/20040517.html   (438 words)

  
 MDST110 Final Exam study guide
Discuss the impact of gender on computers and computing history, and in particular the ways in which computers do or do not reinforce existing real-world gender problems.
Computing provides ways for women to work from home and stay active in the workplace while raising a family.
Stereotype has often been that of a geek, or one who is socially inept.
www.people.virginia.edu /~guh4w/mdst110/final_review.html   (1099 words)

  
 Stereotype -
It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with Ethnic stereotype.
Common stereotypes include a variety of allegations about groups based around: race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality, or religious belief; also profession and social class (see social stereotype).
For example, the stereotypical devil is a red, impish character with horns and a pitchfork (actually a trident), whilst the stereotypical salesman is a slickly-dressed, fast-talking individual who cannot usually be trusted.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Stereotyping   (854 words)

  
 Students Offer Free Computing Services
We work tediously on the computer and say to ourselves, "There has to be a better way to do this." Faculty members with this nagging doubt or with any other computing problem, can utilize a free campus resource, the Computing Services Graduate Assistant Program.
Bucking the stereotype of computing assistants who know how to fix a problem but lack the social skills to explain the problem or its solution, graduate assistants in Computing Services are selected not only for their technical abilities, but also for their people skills.
Computing Services expects to provide GCOE with a student who will live up to Barricelli's standards.
www.umb.edu /news/1997news/reporter/ureporter997/computingsvs.html   (606 words)

  
 Talking With High School Students About Computing Careers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Computer Science and Engineering is about problem solving and creative thinking.
It is helpful here to use examples that are appealing to girls as well as boys and to give many examples that are not mathematics based (to combat the stereotype of the computer as only a number cruncher).
This leads to talking about the courses students should be taking in high school to prepare for such a career(speaking and writing as well as math and science courses).
www.sdsc.edu /CRAW/hs_pamphlet/hs_pamphlet.html   (673 words)

  
 Internet, Ag Computing Focus Of Conference
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Farmers and ranchers sometimes are stereotyped as old-fashioned or technologically-lacking, despite the machinery, crop and animal health advances that have occurred in agriculture.
But this stereotype is beginning to fade as farmers increasingly use the Internet, said Willie Vogt, the E-content director for Farm Progress magazines.
Vogt will be a featured speaker during the Conference on Applied Ag Computing, Jan. 5-6 at the Fort Hays State Memorial Union.
www.oznet.ksu.edu /news/sty/2000/Econference.htm   (397 words)

  
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Each metaclass of the component metamodel maps to a stereotype of a UML element, effectively describing a specialization hierarchy of stereotypes.
However, the stereotype hierarchy contradicts the hierarchy of the UML elements being stereotyped.
If one remembers that stereotypes are effectively new metaclasses specialized from UML metaclasses, then the submission is effectively proposing the following metamodel: That is, the submission proposes a new metaclass Composition that combines the semantics of state machines and collaboration.
www.omg.org /docs/ad/01-08-26.txt   (2277 words)

  
 Distributed-Computing-HOWTO
Ever since PC's appeared and computers have become more popular to the 'common man' the idea of computers being the tool of scientists to do various processing of data has become distant.
The computer is no longer a complicated calculator but rather a technologically advanced toy.
Distributed computing is a simple idea: it makes long and complicated scientific computing a lot cheaper and faster (it depends on project's popularity).
ibiblio.org /gferg/ldp/Distributed-Computing-HOWTO   (674 words)

  
 UML colors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The coloring system indicates which of several archetypes apply to the UML object.
UML typically identifies a stereotype which is a bracketed comment for each object identifying whether it is a class, interface, etc.
Many people feel colored objects appeal to the pattern recognition section of the brain.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UML_colors   (641 words)

  
 Challenges of Symbolic Computation - My Favorite Open Problems - Kaltofen (ResearchIndex)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
A Brief History of Symbolic Mathematical Computation It is dangerous to stereotype historical development into periods.
The following highlights during the decades of symbolic computation, as I perceive them, should simply be taken as a guideline.
25 On Euclid's algorithm and the computation of polynomial grea..
sherry.ifi.unizh.ch /82727.html   (1457 words)

  
 GVU's Third WWW User Survey Fun Graphs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
As with the Third Survey, European users are more likely to spend less time fun computing that their US counterparts (47.6% vs 36.4%).
As was observed with Prodigy users in the Third Survey, Weekend users typically spend more time having fun with their computers than Weekday users.
This characterization of fits the stereotype that males are heavy recreational computer users.
www.cc.gatech.edu /user_surveys/survey-10-1995/graphs/general/fun.html   (167 words)

  
 Christina M   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
  The point that Lee makes in his editorial is that women since the late 1800's have performed computation and secretarial duties for their male superiors and therefore they can be equated with computers (15).
  There have been many female contributors to the expansion of computing machines and computer science and several of the pioneers of computing technology were female.
  Women during this era were stereotyped as being good programmers because of the need for programmers to be patient, persistent, and detail-oriented (Gurer, "Pioneering Women" 176).
www.tcnj.edu /~gaskill3/history.htm   (760 words)

  
 MIND Exchange
To challenge the stereotype that the Singularity will emerge from a non-human machine, here is a vision of augmented humans becoming singularities.
Sure, but a computer can be as simple as a single register of nothing more than a few bits (like an abacus).
It may also create computers that would never need to be plugged in and carry batteries that would never run out of power.
www.kurzweilai.net /mindx/show_thread.php?rootID=1185&o=date   (2103 words)

  
 Seniors and E-Commerce: Selling to the Older Shopper
The stereotype of the older Internet surfers is far from flattering.
In the eyes of some younger people, those surfers, who are age 65 and older, are seen as doddering and easily confused.
The difference in computer skills between the young and the old is large, Nielsen notes.
www.smallbusinesscomputing.com /emarketing/print.php/3550151   (1580 words)

  
 Computer Magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Broadening Participation in Computing series will discuss ongoing efforts to decrease underrepresentation in computing and information technology and explore alternatives for disseminating information about opportunities for participation to a broader audience.
Pervasive computing has changed the landscape by attempting to hide or partially conceal the computer itself.
Past issues of Computer, from 1988 to the present, are available for free to IEEE Computer Society members.
www.computer.org /computer/timeline   (690 words)

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