I’ll be giving a talk called “Revenge of the Female Nerds” at the 23rd annual Chaos Communication Congress on Wed., 12/27, at 11 PM in the main lecture hall. It will be a much-updated and more thoroughly-researched version of the talk I gave last year at Harvard with the same title. Basically it’s about the social barriers women have to surmount to become scientists and engineers — and how we can blow those barriers to bits. I’ll be discussing my recent book, She’s Such a Geek, as well as a study I’m completing for the National Academy of Sciences on how the media covers scientific studies about gender issues.

CCC is sponsored by another CCC, the Chaos Computer Club, which is one of the oldest political hacker groups in the world. It’s my first time attending one of their events, which includes Chaos Computer Camp every third summer. I can’t wait to hang out with the European hackers and dig into some serious nerd politics and art, as well as cool tech. If you’ll be there, come say hi! I won’t have my cell phone, but you can reach me on AIM as t3chspl01t or jabber as annalee@gmail.com.

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