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Jenny Edwards Pull Quotes
Jenny Edwards is a member of the Faculty of Information Technology at the University of Technology, Syndney, Australia. Jenny is the concummate menotr, encouraging a multititude of students in various disciplines to complete their dissertations and research. In addition to her work at UTS Jenny has maintained a joint research study agreement with IBM for nearly 20 years. She recently recived a Carrick Associate Fellowship to study novice programmers with specific attention to females.
This webpage gives excerpts taken from the interview of Jenny Edwards conducted on the 18th of January 2006 in Hobart, Tasmania by Barbara Boucher Owens The entire interview and transcript are also available from here.
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Jenny's Website
Professor University of Technology,
Sydney
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"And in many ways promotion didn't matter all that much to me. I was actually pushed into applying for quite a few, which is also typical. The women often actually wait till they are pushed into applying for promotion whereas the guys apply the minute they meet the rules." Link to this audio snippet in new window "Well I was always good at maths and science. When I was about 8 in my primary school desk, there was a piece of graffiti which was extremely unusual at my school. It said e to the i pi equals minus one. Now, I knew what pi was, but I didn't know what e was, and I didn't know what i was, but I didn't see how anything that had pi in it could turn up to equal minus one. So at that stage I thought I have to find out why e to the i pi equals minus one. It never occurred to me that maybe it didn't but I thought I wanted to find this out. So I suppose that encouraged me a little bit in maths." |
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