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Article Evaluation: Women in Computing

Pretty up to date in the intro (mentioned 2017) but the timeline stopped at 2015 and there is probably a lot that has happened in the past 3 years. Article also appears very neutral and is mostly just a timeline of achievements made by women in computer science. Each event on the timeline has at least one citations and the 5 citations I checked all had working links and supported the article's claims. The talk page had people asking for a list of famous women, claiming it missed notable mentions, and that it should be split into two articles. This article is part of five WikiProjects and is rated C-class by all of them. Our class discussion differs from this article because the article is very fact based and doesn't include ideas on why computing has been hard for women to get into. Instead, it just lists achievements women have made.

Topic Selection

 * 1) Evangelina Villegas: Mexican biochemist; She made huge contributions to the development of a new type of corn, yet her wiki page only has two sentences. There are plenty of articles on line that would be useful in writing a more detailed page for her.
 * 2) https://mujeresconciencia.com/2017/12/12/evangelina-villegas-moreno-la-bioquimica-desarrollo-la-qpm-ciencia-la-desnutricion/
 * 3) https://www.cimmyt.org/super-woman-evangelina-villegas-developed-transformative-quality-protein-maize/
 * 4) Jacobo Grinberg: Mexican neurophysiologist who disappeared in 1994. His disappearance is still a mystery, so it would be interesting to see if there has been new developments. He studied how modern science and shamanism as well as magic overlap, which is also unusual, yet his page only discussed one of his theories.
 * 5) https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-secret-behind-doctor-grinberg-film-mexico#/
 * 6) https://www.jacobogrinberg.com/
 * 7) José María Cantú Garza: Mexican genetics researcher; His wiki page only states where he was born, went to school, and a few recognitions, however there are in depth articles about him on google.
 * 8) https://www.anmm.org.mx/GMM/2009/n5/100_vol_145_n5.pdf
 * 9) https://www.cibo.website/single-post/2017/12/04/In-Memorian-Dr-Jos%C3%A9-Mar%C3%ADa-Cant%C3%BA-Garza

Jose Maria Cantu Garza had many achievements throughout his career. He dedicated his life to research and was given the highest award possible at his university.

Jacobo Grinberg Edits
Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum is/was a Mexican scientist, writer and psychologist. He studied Mexican shamanism, oriental disciplines, meditation, and telepathy through the scientific method. He wrote more than 50 books about these subjects. Jacobo disappeared in December 1994.

Biography
Jacobo Grinberg-Zylberbaum was born in Mexico City in 1946. Grinberg decided to study the human mind when he was 12 years old, after his mother died from a stroke. He studied psychology at the Science Faculty of UNAM. In 1970, he went to New York City to study psychophysiology at the Brain Research Institute. He earned a Ph.D. at the E. Roy John Laboratory.

When he went back to Mexico, he founded a laboratory of psychophysiology at the Universidad Anáhuac. He installed another laboratory of this kind in UNAM in the late 1970s. He founded the Instituto Nacional para el Estudio de la Conciencia (INPEC) in 1987, financed by UNAM and CONACYT. Jacobo published several of his books through INPEC. Grinberg wrote more than 50 books about brain activity, witchcraft, shamanism, telepathy, and meditation.

Jacobo tended to put his reputation as a scientist in danger when he tried to use the scientific method in shamanism studies. He combined the two in his professional work, always trying to understand the “magic world.”

Disappearance Theories
Since December 8, 1994, Jacobo Grinberg has been missing. On December 12, his family prepared a party for him to celebrate his 48th birthday, but he did not show up. It was common for him to make spontaneous travels or just not answer his phone for days, which is why his disappearance did not seem odd to his family in the beginning. There are many conspiracies surrounding Jacobo's disappearance. It has been speculated that NASA or the CIA kidnapped him after the U.S military became interested in his research on the relationship between metaphysical worlds and humans and tried to seize his work.

Published Research

 * Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Paradox in the Brain: The Transferred Potential
 * Analyzed whether the brain has a macroscopic quantum component through the comparison of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) correlations between human brains. Results suggested that interaction between two people, such as maintaining direct communication, caused both brains to react to stimuli that only one individual was exposed to.
 * Patterns of Interhemispheric Correlation During Human Communication
 * Observed telepathy when subjects were in direct communication and without communication. The results supported the syntergic theory.
 * Evoked potentials and concept formation in man
 * Analyzed how the brain processes visual information. Results indicated that meaning of a stimulus is determined in the parieto-temporal lobes and the analysis of the visual representation of a stimulus is determined in the occipital lobes.
 * The transformation of neuronal activity into conscious experience: the syntergic theory
 * Analyzes the interaction between information and brain activity to understand the human experience and how reality is conceived.

The Sintergy Theory
Grinberg's sintergy theory states that there is a continuous space of energy and the common human can only perceive a part of it. The result of this process is what everyone understand as "reality." This theory tries to answer the question of the creation of the experience. It is based on years of brain experiments and consciousness studies. The book where it is mentioned, "El Cerebro Consciente," was translated into seven languages.

Pachita
Grinberg's Sintergy Theory was born out of his work with Barbara Guerrero, a Mexican psychic and healer, famously known as Pachita. Pachita was most famous for performing psychic surgery, a type of surgery in which surgical tools are not used and which produces no wounds. Grinberg wrote a book, Pachita, about his experiences with her. She is also listed in his book Chamanes de Mexico. Grinberg was so intrigued by Pachita's repute that he shadowed her procedures for nearly a year. He came to the conclusion that Pachita's ability to heal was the result of a combination of two different realities due to the presence of a neuronal field surrounding our brains as well as the presence of a "lattice of space time". Although validation of Pachita's ability to heal is controversial within the scientific community, Grinberg's research on the the brain's transfer potential was published in Physics Essays, a peer-reviewed scientific journal.