Professor 'staggered' by sexism of computer scientists

One of Britain's leading computer scientists has criticised the "staggering sexism" in the industry, citing a visit to an artificial intelligence laboratory where a prototype of an "enhanced human" was entirely male. Ursula Martin, a professor of computer science at Oxford University, said that despite attempts to redress the problem, there was still an anti-female bias. She said that universities had attempted to encourage more women to enrol on science and mathematics courses, admitting that the institutions "did not always get it right" but they did try to remove obstacles.