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Gender Predict
Downloads Gender Predict is an application that predicts your baby gender based on Chinese Gender Chart with input of chinese birth date and conception date. Chinese Gender Chart was buried in a royal tomb near Beijing over 700 years ago.
[October 13, 2008, 10:06]
Amazon patents gender stereotyping
News Amazon.com has been granted a US patent on "Methods and systems of assisting users in purchasing items", including the use of gift-buying habits to determine the age, gender and birth-date of gift recipients, according to a US Patent and Trademark...
[March 9, 2005, 14:40]
Networking Academy Program in Ethiopia Bridges Both Gender and Digital Divides
White Papers Additionally, through the UNECA African Center for Women, Academy program participants were trained in gender and development, entrepreneurship, and management skills. With a bachelor degree in Public Administration from the National University of...
[April 13, 2007, 1:01]
Schools 'need gender-specific software'
News GFI Asia Pacific is calling on Australian market researchers to investigate "gender-specific" software. The managing director of IT security company GFI, Richard Rundle, believes "the significant differences between the way boys and girls use and...
[May 6, 2004, 10:50]
Gender divide amongst e-shoppers
News The survey into user attitudes on the Internet -- conducted by Netpoll -- finds there is a clear gender divide when it comes to online shopping behaviour. Different attitudes set men and women apart when shopping on the Net.according to research...
[July 26, 2000, 14:13]
Amazon's gender stereotyping patent slammed
News The company was granted a patent last week for the system, which also profiles gift recipients and guesses their age, birthday and gender. The system would then try to guess their gender, age and the gift-giving occasion based on the type of...
[March 15, 2005, 8:30]
EC funds 'gender equality in science' study
News The EU programme "Practising gender equality in science" (PRAGES) will compare various strategies implemented in Europe and in countries including the US, Australia and Canada that have promoted the presence of women in public scientific research...
[January 7, 2008, 14:40]
Europe's online gender divide slow to close
News At this rate, the research group warns, there won't be gender parity in the European online community until 2010. Nielsen//NetRatings European market analyst Tom Ewing is concerned that this gender divide reinforces the perception that the Web is a...
[June 24, 2003, 15:24]
Baby Gender
Downloads Baby Gender is based on the biological rhythms of the baby's parents. This method tries to identify which chromosomes are stronger at the time of conception, the males or the females, based on the birth date of the parents.
[July 3, 2009, 7:49]
Amazon patents gender stereotyping
Talkback What strikes me most about these "inventions" is that when a real human being performs the described actions it is totally obvious, while once you translate it into software it suddenly is worth a patent.
[March 9, 2005, 18:03]
Amazon patents gender stereotyping
Talkback Data mining isn't new; surely there's plenty of prior art out there?
[March 9, 2005, 16:00]
Computer science's gender gap
News Margolis, who has spent years studying gender and education, talked to CNET News.com from her office at the University of California at Los Angeles about the findings of her research and her observations on the computer science gender gap.
[February 11, 2002, 11:49]
Explore all avenues before assuming gender bias
News My own best advice for you is (as Kimberly also mentions) to not immediately jump to the conclusion that you're facing a gender-based issue here. I suspect that if your boss's missteps really were gender-driven, he'd ignore you in favour of other...
[October 14, 2002, 11:44]
Amazon patents gender stereotyping
Talkback This just gives me another not to use Amazon.
[March 9, 2005, 21:44]
Amazon patents gender stereotyping
Talkback Okay, so when I use my abilities to eztraplolate information from random data to build a profile of someone, I should pay a royalty to Amazon. I believe that this is prior art (prehistoric) and the only difference is that they have written it down...
[July 28, 2005, 20:31]
Amazon patents gender stereotyping
Talkback This is why EU Software Patents should not be allowed. Such a system is completly obvious and has probably be considered by thousands of websites. It is hardly a "new technological advancement which will advance society" as patents are meant to be.
[March 10, 2005, 12:01]
Amazon patents gender stereotyping
Talkback It seems they just want to show off to investors how smart they are doing research. Then they can go and write press releases about how ŤAmazon is driving innovation with over 250+ patentsť. Which is fine; they even have already issued 30000...
[March 9, 2005, 20:41]
ProExam
Downloads Exm-gender is matched against the applicant gender & matched against the procedures to be performed to ensure you send the appropriate examiner. Procs checked against examiner's skill set to ensure examiner can perform the requirements.
[October 17, 2008, 9:59]
Pay-gap report finds females in IT are better off
News Progress on gender pay equality in the UK has stalled, says the government's Women and Work Commission, but senior female tech workers at least have reason to smile, according to new research. Writing in the report, Baroness Prosser of Battersea...
[July 31, 2009, 9:11]
