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  1. Another codebreaker by CryptoFreak · · Score: 1 · on Nazi Codebreaking Documentary

    Another one of the code breakers at Bletchley during that time was Peter Hilton. He's a very interesting Mathematician who's done a lot of work in Number Theory, Combinatorics, and Crytography. I got to meet him two or three time as a Math/CS undergrad at Santa Clara University and his stories are unreal. He was very surprised to see that computers have advanced to the point that you don't have to get up and get some coffee before it's done with the desired computation! He's a very nice guy and I'm glad I got to meet him.

  2. Re:You fool by Quintin+Stone · · Score: 1 · on Girl Geeks Launch Picosatellite
    Good thing you posted as AC, moron, because if you had bothered to actually read about the team, you'd see that Duncan Laurie is a guy.
    • DUNCAN LAURIE is the God of Computer Engineering. He is responsible for the flight code of the three picosatellites, along with interns, Erik Jonsson and Robbie Schingler. Duncan likes to go days without sleeping. Erik doesn't like frogs or slurpees, Robbie likes frogs, and Duncan's pet snake eats frogs.
  3. There's at least one guy on the team! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Girl Geeks Launch Picosatellite

    According to the "team player" link on the SCREEM, there's at least one guy on the team. Here's the bio they provide:

    DUNCAN LAURIE is the God of Computer Engineering. He is responsible for the flight code of the three picosatellites, along with interns, Erik Jonsson and Robbie Schingler. Duncan likes to go days without sleeping. Erik doesn't like frogs or slurpees, Robbie likes frogs, and Duncan's pet snake eats frogs.

    Looks like the women can't live without us just yet!

  4. Sucks to be him. by afniv · · Score: 2 · on Girl Geeks Launch Picosatellite

    So it's an all female team? According to their home page they are a group of "six female undergraduate senior engineers". It's a little misleading, suggesting the team is made up of only these engineering students. The total number of students is seven. Look at the Team List. There is one guy: Duncan Laurie, self proffessed "God of Computer Engineering".

    I'm all for women in engineering, there is plenty of room for more. However, let's be team players and all work together. I am discouraged whenever a same sex team accomplishes something.

    Good luck to the group. I certainly had fun doing similar work in college.

    ~afniv
    "Man könnte froh sein, wenn die Luft so rein wäre wie das Bier"