Top ten girl geeks

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:50am

uber lame! Lisa Simpson on 7th? Shes not even real! If thats legal then Im wondering what 'Top ten athletes' should look like? (Superman, The Flash ...)

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 11:25am

Lisa is c00l!

Baboo MalooWed 22 November, 2006 10:05am

Lisa Simpson is real in the hearts of children around the world. She may be a cartoon, but does that make her any less of a person? Separate drinking fountains for cartoons -- is that what you want?

ArfaaaaWed 22 November, 2006 11:36am

Depends what you think 'real' is? Who's to say cartoons aren't more real than us?

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 1:48pm

COBOL not COBAL.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 2:08pm

Did anyone else mis-read the last line of the Paris write-up as "but this girl is inside alt.binary"?

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 2:12pm

I hate COBOL and COBAL! COBOL SUCKS ANY WAY YOU SPELL IT! YEA FOR C++ and Java!

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 4:39pm

I'd suggest you read this article http://members.safe-t.net/jwalker/programming/interview.html

AnonymousThu 14 December, 2006 8:25pm

Lisa Simpson is not even real she is just a cartoon I don't know how can she be in the list she is just a cartoon!!!! .

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 2:14pm

Parish Hilton? Ugh. She's as much as a geek as I am an antelope.
List ruined.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 2:16pm

What about Hedy Lamarr - and her "frequency hopping."

jay blackWed 22 November, 2006 2:21pm

i'm good with the list... except paris hilton. she might be a gamer, but let's be honest, if she were to actually _meet_ a geek, she wouldn't even care enough to tell one of her lackeys to tell one of his lackeys to take the time to spit on the geek.

i think a better choice would be morgan webb. she's hotter than paris hilton and she's paid by the good people at g4 to pretend to like geeks.

SmKnDrKnWed 22 November, 2006 2:23pm

This list makes me sad in the pants.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 2:27pm

Paris Hilton's T-Mobile Sidekick was hacked, not Blackberry.

GeekfatherWed 22 November, 2006 2:28pm

Two words... Kari Byron.

http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/meet/meet_03.html

Darin in GermanyWed 22 November, 2006 2:46pm

I vote for Kirsten Sanford of "This Week in Science"

http://www.twis.org/kirsten.html
http://www.kirstensanford.com/

Darin in GermanyWed 22 November, 2006 2:46pm

I vote for Kirsten Sanford of "This Week in Science"

http://www.twis.org/kirsten.html
http://www.kirstensanford.com/

RonWed 22 November, 2006 2:32pm

This list was almost cool until they screwed it up by adding a cartoon and the world's biggest joke (Paris Hilton).

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 2:35pm

If I were to say about a living famous underground female techie, I would have nominated Jeri Ellsworth.

Paris Hilton is a media puppet, not a geek.

Stanley ChoadWed 22 November, 2006 2:41pm

what, no one could think of four more real women with real contributions to technology?

NuggetWed 22 November, 2006 2:43pm

Great idea, poor execution.

One cartoon character was enough, adding Paris Hilton and Daryl Hannah was just too much.

The list author should be made to listen to Paris Hilton's album as punishment..

Wayne ColonyWed 22 November, 2006 2:43pm

One of the founding cornerstones of "geek"dom is a rejection of style that has no substance. I can see where they were going with Lisa Simpson because this is a geek archetype for young girls but she has no substance. Couldn't they find someone better out of the billions of women who are or have walked the earth.

As far as Paris Hilton... She is the epitome of style to the complete exclusion of substance. Calling her a geek because she can operate a video game is like calling someone a cyclotron engineer because they can operate a microwave oven. I suspect that they felt they needed a "hot" girl and someone considered "uber"cool. The fact is that true "geek"dom comes from totally ignoring "cool" and fixating on how things actually work.

DJCalarcoWed 22 November, 2006 2:44pm

Hell, I could think of about 200 more geeky girls than Paris Hilton, whoever wrote this list is a blight on geekdom throughout the universe, and should be slapped around with a large trout.

Michael Parsons, Editor. CNET.co.ukWed 22 November, 2006 2:48pm

EDITOR'S NOTE: An earlier version of this story had Paris Hilton's Blackberry being stolen. Apologies, it was of course her Sidekick. CNET.co.uk regrets the error.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 2:50pm

" Hopper's contribution to the world of computers cannot be underestimated: "

Oh, really? You mean, now matter how unimportant I estimated it was, it would still be less important than that? That's probably why she's only #2.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 2:52pm

HAHAHA. This list of 10 includes one fictional character, one virtual reality enthusiast (so 90s) and one fashion icon celeb - ever heard of the phrase 'scraping the barrel'?

TorWed 22 November, 2006 2:57pm

Paris Hilton? She's _not_ a geek, because she doesn't understand much of the tech she's using. She's the _opposite_ of a geek.
I would suggest either Hedy Lamarr or possibly Anousheh Ansari (http://xprize.org/xprizes/popup_bio_anousheh_ansari.html)

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 4:18pm

"Plutonium was first produced and isolated on February 23, 1941." Kind of hard for her to carry that around if she died in the 30s, eh?

John TurnerWed 22 November, 2006 4:23pm

Ahh I knew there was a reason I never come to this site. I should've read the feedback on slashdot.org before clicking the link.

SoulbutterWed 22 November, 2006 4:25pm

I think you guys at C|net really should have had a user poll for this list.

There are so many more you could have honored. Lisa doesnt bother me, but Paris?! I'm a girl gamer and she only does it for the press, or to get boys, or for crack, who knows...why is she even relevant? She's a horrible role model.

You've lost cred here C|net...get with the times.

C|Net is a shamWed 22 November, 2006 4:30pm

This has got to be a f***ing joke. Whoever wrote this piece of trash needs to be severely beaten.

spammybenWed 22 November, 2006 4:31pm

well, way to go with paris hilton!! I can't belive that you would do that. I guess this is the last time I ever visit a cnet site...

CygnusWed 22 November, 2006 4:34pm

Just because someone on the C|Net staff thinks Paris Hilton is hot, that does NOT mean she should be included on this list. She's a moron. A top ten girl geek should not be a moron.

FUWed 22 November, 2006 4:36pm

My (girl) response: Sorry, my brain will not compute this rubbish -- core dumping!

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 4:38pm

Hypatia of Alexandria iis worth considering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 4:38pm

OK, lets leave Lisa and Paris in the fantasy of the author, but what about more real suggestions, here is one:

Evelyn Berezin invented what we know of as the first office computer in 1953 while working for the Underwood Company. Underwood was sold subsequently to the Olivetti copany which never marketed Berezin's invention. Berezin went on to work for Teleregister where she developed several online real-time systems. These included the first online airline-reservation system in the world for United Airlines.

http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/inventors/berezin.html

anonWed 22 November, 2006 4:40pm

If you think about it Lisa Simpson is more real then Paris Hilton will ever be.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 4:54pm

To the dim-wit who wrote th atricle, nice going!
My daughter does better research and writes better articles than you.
Try doing research, and posting about REAL WOMEN in computing, instead of pulling your brain-rot findings from People Magazine.
Dolt.

~G~

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 4:55pm

The inclusion of Paris Hilton into this list is egregious.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 4:55pm

What about Lise Meitner (for whom the element Meitnerium is named - see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner) or Elizaveta Litvinova - see http://www.agnesscott.edu/LRIDDLE/WOMEN/litvin.htm)? What about prodigies like Sarah Flannery? What about modern female scientists, mathematicians, and engineers? Heck, what about *legitimate* geek gamer girls instead of airhead heiresses and fictional characters?

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 4:58pm

Hedy Lamar was way geekier, way more impressive, and WAY hotter that Paris Hilton.

Despite her prodigous intellectual talents the US government said she could make her best contribution to the war effort by acting. She married an experimental composer who made music by syncronizing many player pianos (the predecessor of electronica?) She took his sync'd player piano innards and developed a signal encryption technique for guiding torpedos. The technique is now widely used and called spread spectrum or frequency skipping.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 4:59pm

OK, lets leave Lisa and Paris in the fantasy of the author, but what about more real suggestions, here is one:

Evelyn Berezin invented what we know of as the first office computer in 1953 while working for the Underwood Company. Underwood was sold subsequently to the Olivetti copany which never marketed Berezin's invention. Berezin went on to work for Teleregister where she developed several online real-time systems. These included the first online airline-reservation system in the world for United Airlines.

http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/inventors/berezin.html

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:05pm

Paris Hilton!?!?
The world really is coming to an end.....

longpigWed 22 November, 2006 5:05pm

Putting Paris Hilton in there is an insult to geeks of any gender.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:05pm

You couldn't come up with ten *real* girl geeks? Even if you allow for the cutesy Lisa Simpson reference, you couldn't come up with someone more compelling than (gag) Paris Hilton and (whatever happened to) Daryl Hannah? What kind of braindead misogynists wrote this piece of crap? Gah.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:06pm

I can't believe ParisH is on this list, and Stevie "Killcreek" Case is not. Someone wasn't thinking here. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevie_Case)

JohnathanWed 22 November, 2006 5:09pm

Talk about zero credibility. The top 5 are definately legit. But once you get to Lisa friggin' simpson, and then topping the list out with that hilton disaster! I MEAN COME THE F' on people!

Yet another STUPID, STUPID, STUPID excuse for another STUPID top 10 list that sucks!

StrifekunWed 22 November, 2006 5:10pm

Paris Hilton Girl Gamer? NOT! Please, Paris Hilton, gamer, NO. That would be saying that I can communicate with animals, and please, that is not happening.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:18pm

Yes... Definetly something is wrong with this list if Stevie Case (Killcreek) is missing. Heck, she should be in the top 5.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:24pm

How can Emmy Noether be left off this list?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:29pm

How lame that is. Lisa Simson, Paris Hilton, and Daryl Hanna. You need a refresher on what is Geek.
And when there's a list of the top ten tech pubs, perhaps it will include The Entertainer?

MarqWed 22 November, 2006 5:31pm

Now where's Susan Kare? The designer of original Mac OS, Windows 3 and OS/2 Warp Icons and most importantly: Solitaire graphics.

baabaawaawaaWed 22 November, 2006 5:32pm

AND, Susan Kare, the artist who drew the first well used computer icons is not included here.... ?? Uncouth!

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:33pm

thanks for once again, taking women with brains seriously by picking a cartoon and an empty-headed stick figure. you should have just called this "top 8 girl geeks". Oh, and thanks for re-enforcing an already hostile work environment - I'm sure the guys are glad to see that they've been right all along.

AcidrainWed 22 November, 2006 5:36pm

Come on now, they had to fit the link in for the PSP and Pink RAZR advertisements somehow, right? Technically, her inclusion was a paid news plant by Sony and Motorola. No credibility for you.

CNET, you shot yourself in the foot. Paris Hilton is not a geek. She is just young and uses a phone and plays games, like the rest of her generation. Not. A. Geek.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:38pm

You have got to be kidding me. You aren't being edgy or cool. Including Paris and a freaking cartoon character just takes any respectabilty this list could possibly have and throws it out the window. Oh wait, I think you forgot Sandra Bullock, she played a geek in The Net.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:42pm

Abysmal. Not funny, and a insult to pioneering female scentists, physicians etc And a kick in the teeth for aspiring female scientists, physicians etc.

Rick P.Wed 22 November, 2006 5:44pm

Paris and Lisa - a pretty face and a cartoon character. Why not combine the two and come up with a real geek Mango Parfait.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:48pm

Sheesh! Paris "effing" Hilton??!? How 'bout Hedy Lamar (born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler)? Co-inventor of the voice scrambler ("Secret Communication System," U.S. Patent 2,292,387)?

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:49pm

Um... okay I was with you up to 7, and hell I'll let that slide... but 10? Come on!

Lets see, who would have been better?

Morgan Webb (XPlay)
Olivia Munn (ATOTS)
Michelle Rodriguez (Actress, Bad Girl and loves FPS and could kick Paris' ass in a death match any day)
or about 200 other women that are geeky and not vapid wastes of space.

Isn't it time that we took out the trash?

True She-GeekWed 22 November, 2006 5:54pm

You could not have insulted the geek community more, even if you added George Bush to a list of the Top 10 Most Important Members of Humanity. Paris Hilton, please. I have a 7 year old nephew that plays Crash Bandicoot all the time. Does that make him a geek too? I think I threw up a little in my mouth after reading this great 'list'.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 5:56pm

Why did the writer of this article leave out that Grace Hopper was a REAR ADMIRAL in the US Navy? Her involvement in the US Navy played a big part in who she was and what she accomplished. I think this article needs serious re-editing.

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Chris Stevens -- cnet.co.ukWed 22 November, 2006 6:15pm

EDITOR'S NOTE: Marie Curie was erroneously stated to have carried plutonium in her pockets, in fact it was polonium. We have now corrected this error. It is not reccomended that you carry either of these elements in your pocket.

Rick P.Wed 22 November, 2006 6:17pm

Paris and Lisa - a pretty face and a cartoon character. Why not combine the two and come up with a real geek Mango Parfait.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 6:34pm

Is this a joke? Or is CNET just blatently anti-female?

Paris Hilton? Aleks Krotoski ? Lisa Simpson?

After a quick google search, how about any of the following?

Adele Goldstine - Wrote the first computer manual ever (for ENIAC).

Grace Murray Hopper - Inventor of the compiler

Hedy Lamarr - developed technology in 1942 that is the basis of modern cell phones & wi-fi

Cynthia Breazeal - Directs the robotics life group at MIT

Jane Goodall - famous for her studies of chimpanzee social structure

Roberta Williams - Wrote the Kings Quest series of computer games

Emmy Noether - Mathematician - claimed by Einstein to be " the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began"

The writer of this article should be ashamed. I hope his wife kicks him in the nuts.

Adam HarrisonWed 22 November, 2006 6:44pm

You had me until Paris Hilton. One of the hallmarks of geek girls is their intelligence, which Paris is sorely lacking in.

Cool list until you decided to insult the real geek girls with that last choice.

HenrikWed 22 November, 2006 6:47pm

So to qualify as a geek all you have to do is play games? gimme a f break.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 6:51pm

I vote for Hedy Lamarr! Kick Paris Hilton off there!

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 6:54pm

You leave out Kari Byron and include PARIS HILTON?! The only possible excuse for this travesty is if the UK doesn't get Mythbusters yet.

Actually, scratch that. There's no excuse for that. This list is null and void and the writer should be flogged.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 7:12pm

wow you morons dont know how to take a joke, obviously paris hilton was not a serious entry. Although i do agree that putting a farse in this otherwise serious list reduces the significance of the other entries, i still obviously saw it as funny. And i would imagine this article was written by a man lol.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 7:16pm

Yay! For Geek Girls. Grace Hopper should be #1 on this list.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 7:25pm

What about the inventor of the Blog - credited to a girl from Canada "Carolyn Burke"

Chess GeekWed 22 November, 2006 7:31pm

If they wanted hot and geeky they should have replaced Paris Hilton with Alexandra Konsteniuk see http://www.kosteniuk.com/en/albums/photos.php

John RauchertWed 22 November, 2006 7:32pm

How about Lise Meitner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner? What's more geeky than having an element named after you? Element 109 meitnerium is named in her honor.

John RauchertWed 22 November, 2006 7:36pm

How about Lise Meitner http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lise_Meitner? What's more geeky than having an element named after you? Element 109 meitnerium is named in her honor.

donut1005Wed 22 November, 2006 7:49pm

Paris Hiltons inclusion makes me want to never visit Cnet again.

WRFWed 22 November, 2006 7:52pm

The statement that Marie Curie was the only person to win 2 Nobels in different subjects is wrong. Linus Pauling is a counterexample. Further, Curie was 67 years old when killed by those massive doses of radiation. That was more than the average life expectancy at that time. An unbiased observer would call her life a demonstration of the relative harmlessness of radiation.

LadyShivaWed 22 November, 2006 8:22pm

What a poorly researched article. If the writer intended to make me laugh, they failed miserably; I am offended and not interested in using your website further. The numerous typos and factual discrepancies are also disgusting. The article comes across to me as written in study hall the hour before it was supposed to be turned in. The inclusion of Paris Hilton is repulsive.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 8:34pm

Hedley Lamarr

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 8:39pm

Hedy Lamarr http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

Of course, I cut-and-pasted the MALE character named after her, not her actual name. Too early....

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AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 8:56pm

Paris is a joke. Nobody outside of the UK has heard of Aleks. Lisa is included simply for the concept of the modern geek girl.

7 out of 10 isn't too bad for a mundane web top-10 list, I guess.

tim tomWed 22 November, 2006 9:00pm

Paris Hilton is the other kind of GEEK. Biting heads off chickens, carnal activities with goats, painting on the wall with her own feces...That kind of geek!

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 9:06pm

Paris Hilton and not Hypatia? I don't think so .

Malte SteinerWed 22 November, 2006 9:14pm

you missed Delia Derbyshire
http://www.delia-derbyshire.org/

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 9:18pm

more discussions of technology, software, & the "greats" at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/theory-edge/

Farrell McGovernWed 22 November, 2006 9:29pm

If you are going to list fictional grrl geeks, then here are a few that *should* be there:

1) Abby Sciuto (in NCIS, played by Pauley Perrette) Hacker, Science expert, Goth, Smart, Kinky, what more could you want?
2) Kate Libby/'Acid Burn' (in HACKERS, played by Angelina Jolie). UberCracker/Hacker, Kinky. rich.
3) Erin Stonebender-Berkowitz (Callahan's Crosstime Saloon, Jake's & Zoe's daughter) She used to be a computer program...the sentience of The Net...

That's just a few of the better known ones off the top of my head....

ttyl

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 9:59pm

you obviously missed 'Hedy Lamarr' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedy_Lamarr

What a miss, Lisa Simpson is on the list and not Hedy Lamarr ? something is not right there . . .

geekWed 22 November, 2006 10:01pm

How about the datagrid-girl Marcie Robillard, AKA the Datagrid Girl

Rob SpectreWed 22 November, 2006 10:06pm

What kind of retard rodeo are you people running over there?

Paris Hilton personifies all that which is decidedly NOT geek.

It would help if CNET had anyone remotely close to geek on staff, as opposed to a couple jackass junior college hacks with a Wikipedia bookmark and lifetime subscriptions to Cosmo.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 10:12pm

Oh, come on, people! You claim to be intelligent and you can't even see what's going on here!
Paris Hilton was deliberately included to provoke idiots like you to comment on how shocking it is, and tell all your idiot friends so that they can come and read it and comment on how shocking it is too.
It's called marketing. And I bet you all told your friends.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 10:39pm

Wow, CNET. Just, wow. You have reached a new low.

KethryvisWed 22 November, 2006 10:44pm

I am incredibly offended by your inclusion of Paris Hilton on this list. I *am* a girl geek, and to compare Paris Hilton to myself and my fellow GG's is just... words fail me. Since when did carrying around a PSP, having a Blackberry/Sidekick, and selling your name to a lame online game make one a geek? If that's all it takes, then there must be a ton of geeks out there and if so... why the hell am I always getting phone calls to fix computers?

Your other fillers of Lisa Simpson and Darryl Hannah are pretty bad, but Paris takes the cake. Not to mention some of your facts are wrong in your article (you might want to fact check next time. Grace Hopper didn't invent COBOL, she invented a precursor. and I'm not sure about marie Curie discovering plutonium). There are a lot of girl geeks out there that were left off your list, and the fact that you had to use such incredibly fluff filler like Paris Hilton and Lisa Simpson shows you don't really care about this subject at all. It's very easy to get more geeky than creating a few small board games and carrying a PSP. Many many people have mentioned Heddy Lamar and I'm with them. AND she's beautiful. If you were going for were looks (it seems like you felt you had to do that, you had your "prereq" not-so-pretty girls, so you had to pump it up with Darryl and Paris), then how could you miss her?

I'm incredibly disappointed and I have to say that this latest misstep by CNET has made me never want to read this site again. It shows that you really have no clue about how geeky girls can be.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 10:55pm

Way to reinforce stereotypes with that Paris Hilton inclusion. Women can't make any real contributions, so just take a famous one who happens to use some bit of technology.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 11:01pm

If I recall correctly when MTV aired the XBox 360 celebrity launch party someone asked her what her favorite xbox game was and all she could give as an answer was "what?" Then she was asked about a few different games and had no idea what the person holding the mic was talking about. She's not a gamer, she just gets free stuff cause it'll be cool if she's seen holding it.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 11:17pm

Paris.. Hilton..
That's just stoopid.

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 11:35pm

PARIS HILTON?!?!!?!?!?

YOU JUST KILLED YOUR LIST AND YOUR CREDIBILITY

SHE IS NASTY

Try Angelina Jolie.... she was the babe in Hackers (and she is actually "HOT")

AnonymousWed 22 November, 2006 11:54pm

What? Paris Hilton? Lisa SIMPSON? are you friggin' kidding me? I could sneeze and come up with some better Girl Geeks than that!

L A M E

ChocoThu 23 November, 2006 12:11am

I'd rather see Lisa Randall listed above. She is a SUPER MEGA ULTRA LIGHTNING BABE... and a super geek too!

LAMEThu 23 November, 2006 12:19am

WORST LIST EVER.

/////ANDREThu 23 November, 2006 12:23am

How about Jeri Ellsworth creator of the C-One "reconfigurable computrer"
http://c64upgra.de/c-one/

or "Kiki" the NewTek Video Toaster Spokesgirl???

Bye,
/////ANDRE

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 12:40am

Are you kidding me!?! This is the best you could come up with!!!! Lisa Simpson isn't even a real person (you guys are aware of that, aren't you?). And Paris Hilton! Are you serious-- Paris Hilton can barely stand up straight let alone have the brain power to be considered a geek!! Do your homework people! What about Sonia Kovalesky, Hypatia, or Sophie Germaine! Come on!

A true (female) math geek!

/////ANDREThu 23 November, 2006 12:58am

How about Jeri Ellsworth creator of the C-One "reconfigurable computrer"
http://c64upgra.de/c-one/

or "Kiki" the NewTek Video Toaster Spokesgirl???

Bye,
/////ANDRE

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 1:00am

What a really stupid article. Who pays for your salaries?

Jason MillerThu 23 November, 2006 1:20am

What is c|net trying to do?! If c|net is trying to show young women that careers in information technology should be attractive and important, and that IT is a potent avenue for changing the world...then they failed! The inclusion of Paris Hilton skunked this list out!!!!! Shame on them!!! Including Hilton verges on pandering. At least Lisa Simpson is a "person" that young women find interesting. The others in the list did great things, and c|net diminished that greatness today. To make amends, c|net editors and those in control on the financial reins of the organization should donate a sum to a regional University that is trying to increase the number of women in computer science.

DiogeniusThu 23 November, 2006 1:28am

Some of the best girl geeks I know are not on this list... in fact, I could fill the list at least twice over with them... but they're much too sensible to want to be on the list.

gridsleepThu 23 November, 2006 2:37am

The list should really only have real people not invented ones such as Lisa Simpson. Or Paris Hilton. Leave those two out and there is plenty of room for who I think is one of the most important, Heddy Lamarr, co-inventor of packet switching, which makes this very Internet possible. And seriously more of a babe than any on this list.

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 3:17am

I disagree !!!
I think that Lenna has made much more por science than Lisa SImpson
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~chuck/lennapg/lenna.shtml

And she is no a fictional character!

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 3:30am

And where the hell is Hedy Lamarr on your list?!?

The gorgeous actress who invented Spread Spectrum Radio?

Definitely should be up there.

zombieThu 23 November, 2006 3:41am

Its amazing how C|Net could come up with such a lame list, its seriously a bad excuse for humor and really pathetic to see no "valid" research has gone into writing this article.
Please rewrite the article or remove it.

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 3:47am

Paris Hilton? Who was the moron that did this list? Using a mobile or having your Blackberry hacked doesn't make you a geek.

Try Jennifer Garner. Do your research, you moron.

RickThu 23 November, 2006 3:54am

I used to read Cnet daily. Now I have removed it from my favorites. Paris? Sorry. I got a million other sites to view and yours just went off my daily list. Come on.... Pathetic..

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 3:58am

Paris Hilton? Who was the moron that did this list? Using a mobile or having your Blackberry hacked doesn't make you a geek.

Try Jennifer Garner. Do your research, you moron.

Przemek KlosowskiThu 23 November, 2006 4:01am

I nominate Joanna Rutkowska, my compatriot, a security researcher
and the inventor of Blue Pill undetectable malware. She is not only
very clever but also super cute:
http://invisiblethings.org/about.html

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 4:24am

What about Kim Polese? Personally, I'd rather my young daughter look up to someone like her as an inspiration.

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 4:44am

CNET has officially jumped the shark and is stupid.

loconetThu 23 November, 2006 5:00am

Paris Hilton? That entry alone made the whole article completely useless. It's a joke right? I can't believe how far the headless pop nonsense is getting. Please get a different job.

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 5:24am

Joanna Rutkowska anyone ??
www.invisiblethings.org ^:)^

mbukvaThu 23 November, 2006 6:13am

Come on !! Hedy Lamarr HAS to be on this list. From rubbing shoulders with (and despising) Hitler and Mussolini, to refugee from Nazi germany, to 1940s star actor and co inventor of 'frequency hopping', a key concept used in today's wireless communications. Unfortunately the idea was ahead of its time and was not commercially implemented until after the patents expired - so she never made a cent from it. What a life !

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 8:07am

I agree with including Heddy Lamar - spread spectrum technology

Jay CrossThu 23 November, 2006 8:42am

I realize that you folks on the other side of the pond are different. (I'm in San Francisco.) Nonetheless, this idiotic feature insults women. Paris Hilton? Grow up.

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 9:04am

You know, it ain't easy being a geeky girl. My field is computer graphics, software development for visual effects, and am really lucky to work with cool men and women. This just reinforces the worst.....geeky women are just not to be too seriously. And just think, I used to take this site seriously, too.

Shame, shame.

LoganThu 23 November, 2006 9:36am

7. Lisa Simpson

10. Paris Hilton

That wooshing sound? That's the sound of your credibility on an already suspect article.

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 9:46am

How can you possibly even begin to discuss geek chic without mentioning Regina Lynn?

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 10:10am

How about a KDE geek chick? http://weblog.obso1337.org/

DaxThu 23 November, 2006 10:53am

I know this is just a bit of fun, but if you're going to talk about famous girl gamers - why weren't any of the Frag Dolls or PMS women mentioned? Paris Hilton - flipping eck! I hope the person that added her did it out of some wierd irony or something.

AnonymousThu 23 November, 2006 11:14am

Paris!!! Hahahahaha, I am afraid what will happen to this world if people like her come into the "Geek" category. It's accepted that she is definitely hot but certainly not a geek.

AndréThu 23 November, 2006 12:53pm

If Lisa can be on there, why isn't B'Ellana Torres on the list? This Paris Hilton being on there is just not right.

SpaceyGThu 23 November, 20