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The article profiles visual artists and composer R. Luke DuBois which presents his exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. It mentions the how DuBois create different kind of search algorithm which basically enables the seminal computer science paper. It also notes that DuBois is one of the few artists who can actually understand his own software and his work as programmer.

ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female? She published a 124-page paper, ''Why Are There So Few Female Computer Scientists?'', that catalogued different cultural biases that discouraged girls and women from pursuing a career in the field. The year was 1991. Computer science has changed considerably since then. Now, there are even fewer women entering the field. Why this is so remains a matter of dispute. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]