Tanya Jankot and I have arrived home safely to the Bay Area
from our trips to Dublin, Grenoble, Prague, and Hamburg.
I was delighted and inspired to meet so many very cabable Engineering
staff. We are honored that so many of them have chosen to apply
to SEED.
SEED is open to receive applications through midnight California
time Monday, 14 November (which is tomorrow for me). If someone needs
more time to prepare their material, they should submit their web
application form with as much information as
they have by the 14 November deadline. They will have until
18 November to send in a revision. All material from applicants,
managers, and recommenders is due 18 November. We will select
and announce the 25 SEED participants from Dublin, Grenoble,
Prague, and Hamburg on 22 November.
36 Applications so far:
- Czech Republic: 14 [ 39% ]
- France: 7 [ 19% ]
- Germany: 8 [ 22% ]
- Ireland: 7 [ 19% ]
We are receiving a wide range of applicants: development Engineers,
managers, program managers, and quality Engineers. Most are from
Software but there are a few from Sun’s Scalable Systems Group. I
hope some of the Service and Sales Engineers will also apply.
As usual, there is also a wide range of location of origin. Origin
information is interesting
because it gives us one indication of an applicant’s breadth of cultural
experience. The majority of applicants come from the 4 countries where
the sites are located but there are also applicants who started from
Bosnia, Australia, Slovak Republic, Romania, Russia, USA, and India.
Unusually, very few women have applied so far to this SEED term.
While we hope to see more, we expected a lower number of female applicants
because of the much lower number of women in Computer Science in 3 of
the 4 target countries. According to a U.C. San Diego study* of 21 countries
last August, the factor by which men are overrepresented in Computer Science
relative to their representation in the other fields is:
- 1. Turkey 1.79
- 2. Ireland 1.84
- 5. United States 2.1
- 13. France 4.57
- 19. Germany 5.58
- 21. Czech Republic 6.42
* “University diplomas in computer science are overwhelmingly
earned by males, according to a new study of 21 nations, but
significant country-to-country differences in the gender gap
imply that much more than genetics is at work.”
“Why Aren’t More Girls ‘Geeks’?”,
August 15, 2005 – University of California San Diego,
U.C. NewsWire
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