Celebrating Black History Month with Black Computer Science PhDs

[yesthattom]

In the pages that follow I present some of the accomplishments of 10 young African American men who are doing advanced research in computer science.

Let’s start by saying what these young men are not! They are not gang bangers; they are not pimps; they are not drug dealers or drug addicts; they are not even professional athletes or entertainers. They are highly accomplished, young, African American Ph.D. researchers in computer science.

http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~york/BHMonth.pdf (page 14 is my favorite -- it has the best geek factor)

(A separate document hailing the achievements of young African American women researchers in computer science is due out soon)

Comments

[geeksdoitbetter.livejournal.com]

for a second, i thought the title was "with black computers"

~snerk~

AA statements

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Let’s start by saying what these young men are not! They are not gang bangers; they are not pimps; they are not drug dealers or drug addicts; they are not even professional athletes or entertainers. They are highly accomplished, young, African American Ph.D. researchers in computer science.

FYI - this statement would be offensive to a lot of african-americans that I know...they would ask you why you felt the need to qualify your presentation of the computer scientists... KL