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Playboy image from 1972 gets ban from IEEE computer journals (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The Lena image is (was?) featured quite prominently in the OpenCV docs and tutorials. Kinda weird it only now goes noticed.

[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago

In a 1999 essay on reasons for the male predominance in computer science, applied mathematician Dianne P. O'Leary wrote: .

Suggestive pictures used in lectures on image processing ... convey the message that the lecturer caters to the males only. For example, it is amazing that the "Lena" pin-up image is still used as an example in courses and published as a test image in journals today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna#Criticism

That's 25 years ago...

[–] kaffiene@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

It's been noticed for ages. This is not the first time the issue has been discussed

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

It's been banned from Nature for a while now