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From: ceb@ethz.UUCP (Charles Buckley)
Newsgroups: comp.ai.neural-nets
Subject: Re: Carver Mead's gender
Message-ID: <332@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 88 18:41:51 GMT
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In-reply-to: schmoldt@dcdwest1.UUCP's message of 15 Apr 88 17:38:30 GMT


In article <313@dcdwest1.UUCP> schmoldt@dcdwest1.UUCP (Daryl Schmoldt) writes:

   >In article <2071@louie.udel.EDU> berryh@udel.EDU (John Berryhill) writes:
   >> DAVIS@blue.sdr.slb.com (Paul Davis) writes:
   >>	Hi. Somewhere, or via someone, I have heard that Carver Mead,
   >>	man of optical neural nets, has a book due out called, as I 
   >
   >Carver Mead may be many things.  However, she is not a "man"
   >of anything.
   >
   >John Berryhill berryh@udel.huey.edu

	   I would suggest that before you go correcting people that you 
   do a little homework yourself.  Carver Mead is indeed a man.

Amazing what happens by association.  Carver Mead wrote a book on NMOS
VLSI design with Lynn Conway.  Lynn Conway is definitely of the
feminine gender, and also suffers from being repeatedly treated as a
he.

*Irony on*
   After all, VLSI is a man's affair, right?
*Irony off*

ceb