Study: Workers Unimpressed With Diversity (AP)

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New center at Irvine to study diversity
in technology

New center at Irvine to study diversity
in technology 01/10/2004 06:45 PM

A new center founded at University of California Irvine 's School of Information and Computer Science , plans to study diversity in technology fields. The Ada Byron Center , named after the nineteenth-century computing pioneer and associate of Babbage, aims to work on various levels within the UC system and nationally, including teaching, scholarship, and computer-mediated teaching.

"The percentage of women and underrepresented populations — Latinos, African Americans and Native Americans — in computing and information technology has not grown proportionately with the industry,” said Debra J. Richardson, ABRC director and the Ted and Janice Smith Interim Dean of ICS. "This translates into a loss of opportunity and economic advancement, a loss of talent in the workforce and a loss of creativity in shaping the future of information technology.”

(via ACM TechNews )

Case Study - Ford For All! Embracing
Diversity in Design

Case Study - Ford For All! Embracing
Diversity in Design 05/23/2002 11:35 PM

Lab to study remote workers

Lab to study remote workers 02/10/2004 01:33 PM
ZDNet Feb 10 2004 5:27PM GMT

Study: IT workers more optimistic

Study: IT workers more optimistic 08/13/2004 05:46 PM
IT workers' confidence in the employment market kept growing in July, but techies are less happy with actual jobs than workers overall.

Study: IT workers get a bit more
confident

Study: IT workers get a bit more
confident 09/01/2004 05:05 PM
CNET News.com Sep 1 2004 9:14PM GMT

Study: IT workers see raises ahead

Study: IT workers see raises ahead 12/18/2003 08:44 PM
Technology professionals expect that 2004 will bring an end to two straight years of weak salary increases, according to a new survey.

Study: 20M Workers Have No Health
Coverage (AP)

Study: 20M Workers Have No Health
Coverage (AP) 05/05/2004 12:45 PM
AP - More than one in five working adults in Texas and five other Southern and Southwestern states don't have health insurance, a new study says.

Home-networking lab to study remote
workers

Home-networking lab to study remote
workers 02/10/2004 01:33 PM
CNET Feb 10 2004 5:20PM GMT

Study: Salary gloom ahead for IT workers

Study: Salary gloom ahead for IT workers 11/06/2003 03:53 PM
Starting wages for techies will fall next year, and pay for jobs that boomed in the '90s will keep on dropping, says a recent study. But there's a bright spot for some in-demand pros.

Brits unimpressed by e-Gov

Brits unimpressed by e-Gov 07/19/2004 04:23 AM
Cost billions, but totally invisible

PSX leaves retail unimpressed

PSX leaves retail unimpressed 01/29/2004 01:59 PM
Computer Buyer Jan 29 2004 5:45PM GMT

AValon RF to Present Helicopter
Newsgathering links, digital video links
for Video Signage, COFDM True diversity
Receivers and Transmitters and Diversity
Analog receivers for stationary and
mobile Newsgathering applications at
IBC2004

AValon RF to Present Helicopter
Newsgathering links, digital video links
for Video Signage, COFDM True diversity
Receivers and Transmitters and Diversity
Analog receivers for stationary and
mobile Newsgathering applications at
IBC2004 09/09/2004 03:17 AM
AValon RF, Inc., a leading provider of high-performance wireless links will present its robust wireless video solutions at IBC2004, September 10-14 2004, Amsterdam, NL.Highlights will be a new static antenna tracking receivers for Helicopter news gathering , new 200 Kbit/1 megabit digital transceivers for data, audio video transmissions for Video Signage and digital (COFDM) and analog Video Receivers [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

Can-Spam law signed--critics unimpressed

Can-Spam law signed--critics unimpressed 12/16/2003 12:27 PM
ZDNet Dec 16 2003 11:42AM ET

Juniper unimpressed by Cisco's 'huge
fast router'

Juniper unimpressed by Cisco's 'huge
fast router' 05/24/2004 12:19 PM
ZDNet UK May 24 2004 3:49PM GMT

Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing?

Can Diversity Be a Bad Thing? 04/12/2004 03:34 PM

vs. Linux GUI: Owen found an interview that really, really hits the nail on the head about a big problem with Linux.

Right now, the Linux community values "diversity" too highly to ever get a single, consistent GUI, let alone a good one. At the same time, it holds on doggedly to its (often ancient) Unix-rooted traditions and conventions.

Finally, it's hard to get a really large group of Linux developers to do much of anything beyond a single "project." A GUI is not a "project." It's the whole OS from the user's perspective, and it must be from the creators' perspective too or it will fail.

This is so true. One thing that has always bothered me about Linux is the lack of a consistent file structure. One distribution puts certain files in one place, and another puts them somewhere else.

This was such a big problem, in fact, that the United Linux consoritum was put together specifically to define a common file system. However, Red Hat didn't play ball, and that really marginalized any chance of success.

As for the GUI problem discussed above: Gnome or KDE? Why? Why don't they get together and build the GUI to end all GUIs and just make life simpler for everyone? The different Linux distributions and GUI essentially create multiple "virtual OSs." You're running Fedora and KDE, or SuSE and Gnome, or Slackware and something else.

You also see this when installing software. I'm using Red Hat Fedora, so I need to find an RPM specifically for my distribution. This isn't the same thing that will run in SuSE or other distributions. In fact, they may not use RPMs at all. You may need to compile them from source, etc.

About 18 months ago, I made a concerted effort at using Linux on the desktop. I posted here about the lack of consistency:

While I appreciate the cowboy, wild-west, open-source attitude as much as the next guy, I also appreciate not having to relearn an interface for every new app. With Linux apps, Lord only knows what the menu commands are going to be. Right-clicking on the workspace may reboot the machine for all you know. CTRL-A works in some apps, not in others. Double-clicking has all sorts of different behaviors as well.

Let me say that I haven't found this issue to be the case with Fedora, but the premise holds true. Linux developers look at their one little corner of the OS. They are tactical. No one is looking at the big picture — the strategic picture.

Perhaps the best thing to happen to Linux would be for Red Hat to destroy all competitors and become the Microsoft of Linux. If everyone was using Red Hat, and there was one monolithic entity working on developing the platform, maybe this would provide the cohesion the OS needs to make real inroads on the desktop.

Far be it for me to agree with Owen about anything, but this interview is right on the money.

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Rayovac Gets a Surge of Diversity

Rayovac Gets a Surge of Diversity 01/04/2005 05:56 PM
United Industries adds $950 million in annual revenue, product variety, and new distribution channels.

Seeking Diversity Abroad

Seeking Diversity Abroad 09/16/2004 03:28 PM
Before you chase foreign investments, consider a few things first.

Celebrate Diversity Gun T-Shirt

Celebrate Diversity Gun T-Shirt 08/05/2004 11:08 PM
CELEBRATE DIVERSITY! .. this t-shirt .. wardrobe .. Bang!

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Diversity Mongers Target the Web

Diversity Mongers Target the Web 03/31/2005 03:41 AM
National Review's Heather McDonald responds to columnist Steven Levy's question: Does the blogosphere have a diversity problem? "Could it be that the premise of the 'diversity' crusade is wrong—that there are not in fact hordes of unknown, competitively talented non-white-male journalists held back by prejudice? Don’t even entertain the thought. Steven Levy certainly doesn’t. 'It appears that some clubbiness is involved'—that is, that white male bloggers only link to other white male bloggers." Do we need a race-based quota for web journalism? As racial identity is often anonymous, where would we start?

For Abortion Rights Cause, a New
Diversity

For Abortion Rights Cause, a New
Diversity 04/23/2004 11:14 PM
Young first-generation Americans and recent immigrants are bringing a broader perspective and new energy to the abortion rights cause.

Diversity! Tolerance! Free speech!

Diversity! Tolerance! Free speech! 09/17/2004 12:30 PM
Score one for tolerance and diversity. Three-year-old Sophia Parlock cries while seated on the shoulders of her father, Phil Parlock, after having their Bush-Cheney sign torn up by Kerry-Edwards supporters on Thursday, Sept. 16, 2004, at the Tri-State Airport in Huntington, W.Va. Do the smirking people in this photo really feel proud for terrorizing a three-year-old girl?

FC Now: Director of Diversity Business
Development

FC Now: Director of Diversity Business
Development 09/20/2004 12:16 PM
Talk about a job title of the future today. Graphic Press, an LA-based printing company whose employee base is more than 70% of minority descent,...

Experts debate security through
diversity

Experts debate security through
diversity 07/01/2004 02:04 PM
Boston -- The sheer number of worms and viruses directed at Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser have many in the computer industry wondering whether we would all be more secure if more users relied on alternatives to Microsoft's products.

Gender diversity in intellectual
property

Gender diversity in intellectual
property 04/04/2005 04:05 AM
bizjournals.com Apr 4 2005 7:47AM GMT

Silicon Valley diversity 'call' has
teeth

Silicon Valley diversity 'call' has
teeth 12/27/2004 02:32 AM
bizjournals.com Dec 27 2004 6:24AM GMT

Usenix: Experts debate security through
diversity

Usenix: Experts debate security through
diversity 07/01/2004 01:42 PM
The sheer number of worms and viruses directed at Microsoft Corp.'s Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser have many in the computer industry wondering whether we would all be more secure if more users relied on alternatives to Microsoft's products.

Diversity Plan Shaped in Texas Is Under
Attack

Diversity Plan Shaped in Texas Is Under
Attack 06/12/2004 01:56 PM
Wealthy parents complain that their children are not getting a fair shake under a plan that guarantees admission to the top 10 percent of the graduating class from any high school.

Broadcom: Comms Diversity Drives
Revenues

Broadcom: Comms Diversity Drives
Revenues 04/22/2004 06:44 PM
Broadcom Corp. reported an increase in net income and revenue compared with the fourth quarter of 2003, evidence that the company's diversification into a variety of communications markets is working, executives said.

First Internet server to search for
genetic diversity

First Internet server to search for
genetic diversity 07/19/2004 01:06 PM
Science Blog Jul 19 2004 5:09PM GMT

Fossil Human Teeth Fan Diversity Debate

Fossil Human Teeth Fan Diversity Debate 03/06/2004 02:04 AM

"Harvard�s Diversity Grovel by Heather
Mac Donald"

"Harvard�s Diversity Grovel by Heather
Mac Donald" 06/05/2005 11:45 PM

After Ruling, 3 Universities Maintain
Diversity in Admissions

After Ruling, 3 Universities Maintain
Diversity in Admissions 04/12/2004 10:07 PM
The schools, which abandoned point systems for minority applicants, experienced only slight declines in the racial diversity of the students they admitted.

Harvard’s Diversity Grovel by
Heather Mac Donald

Harvard’s Diversity Grovel by
Heather Mac Donald 06/05/2005 11:30 PM
$50 million that Harvard will be spending .. Heather MacDonald .. very good article

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New Congress reflects nation's division,
diversity (USATODAY.com)

New Congress reflects nation's division,
diversity (USATODAY.com) 01/03/2005 08:12 AM
USATODAY.com - Demographically, the 109th Congress is the most diverse ever, with record numbers of woman and racial and ethnic minorities. Ideologically, it's as divided as the nation. The 50 Congressional newbies to be sworn in Tuesday personify its seemingly irreconcilable differences.

The Directory of Molecular Diversity
Suppliers: Over 90 companies analyzed

The Directory of Molecular Diversity
Suppliers: Over 90 companies analyzed 06/26/2004 03:13 AM
Research and Markets have announced the addition of �The Directory of Molecular Diversity Suppliers� report to their offering. [PRWEB Jun 26, 2004]

CyTela Communications Announces
Diversity Procurement Certification

CyTela Communications Announces
Diversity Procurement Certification 03/23/2005 05:05 AM
CyTela Communications, Inc. is pleased to announce certification by the National Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce (NGLCC) as a participant in the NGLCC�s Diversity Procurement Initiative. [PRWEB Mar 23, 2005]

Fish Diversity Tied to Evolution of
Diving Ability

Fish Diversity Tied to Evolution of
Diving Ability 03/22/2005 03:48 PM

New PBS Kids Arthur Site Explores
Cultural Diversity

New PBS Kids Arthur Site Explores
Cultural Diversity 05/31/2004 07:05 PM
Where in the world can you find a didgeridoo, play jereed, or eat nyama choma? Learn all this and more while matching wits with Buster in the interactive matching card game, "Connect the World," featuring diverse cultures in our world neighborhood. Players can explore even more in an interactive world map.

Senior Civil Service: Increasing
diversity and more women at the top

Senior Civil Service: Increasing
diversity and more women at the top 04/23/2004 02:41 AM
PublicTechnology.net Apr 23 2004 7:21AM GMT
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