Detroit, MI
Maricelle Thomas has a MBA with a background in Engineering and IT. She started out as an Industrial Engineer and later moved into supporting and implementing ERP systems and Web Applications. A strong interest in the Arts and Creative fields led to her current gig as a Tech Blogger. Her deep experience in Business Analysis and various technologies enable her to provide her readers with a rich perspective on how technology can improve their daily lives. Check out her videos on YouTube or read up on her latest posts at Google +, Blogger and getlinuxanswers.com.
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I certainly can relate to experiencing the high male to female ratio in math/science and engineering when I went to university in the 80's and when I began my career in the 90's. At university, I was 1 of 3 females in a class of about 50 for Pascal programming. Then when I worked in Engineering departments most of my colleagues were male. I got along with them because I could talk sports. Yes, having a good teacher to motivate, encourage and be a role model to pursue challenging fields is a definite plus. When young girls see the women of today in leadership positions which shape the future designs of products, I think they will find that "sexy". GM's new CEO is a woman.
The Chromebook could act like a "PC" if you installed Ubuntu on it using Crouton. Then you could toggle between Chrome OS and Ubuntu (when you're offline). The traditional method of loading software natively on the desktop won't go away entirely but it's currently being assaulted by the "Cloud Computing". If I was forced by my job to use MS Office, I wouldn't have to be on a "Windows Only" PC to use it. If I were a very "enterprising app developer", I would be developing cross-platform for the web to maximize my profit potential. There's HTML5, Python, etc....