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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Patty Azzarello on Succeeding While Loving Life
The Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology (ABI for short) Board of Advisers meeting last week was really inspirational. On the morning of the second day...
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My Great Canadian Appathon Experience
This past weekend was the Great Canadian Appathon, a 48-hour game design and development competition. I was on Team Harmony with some of the guys who helped out...
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Met a Girl from My First Ever Mini-Course Yesterday
I went to Almonte and District High School yesterday for a pilot project called Futures Fair. Community members were invited to give workshops and mock university...
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Introducing Gram's House, Our Imagine Cup 2011 Game for Girls and Computer Science
Computer science is still a gender-imbalanced field. Outreach efforts by various non-profits and companies like Microsoft seem to make an impact on this issue....
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One Positive Thing, Martial Arts, and Hitting the Proverbial Wall
The other day I read Cate's post on One Positive Thing:The power of sustained small achievements is underrated. If every day I did one positive thing for my health...
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Great Canadian Appathon
Carleton's Game Development Club is one of six host schools for the upcoming Great Canadian Appathon:The Great Canadian Appathon is a chance for post-secondarysoftware...
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Perspective and Spatial Relationships for Interface Design
Did you ever notice the moment we went from having a maximum of two monitors on our desktop side-by-side to having multiple displays, such as monitors and mobile...
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Unlocking the Clubhouse for Women in Computing
I spoke at the most recent book club session put on by Carleton's IEEE-WIE, WIL, and CU-WISE. At these sessions, attendees don't need to have read the book; rather...
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Procedural Rhetoric in Games
In the Carleton Game Dev Club meeting last week, a member showed a video from the Escapist series Extra Credit. Called Narrative Mechanics, this episode was all...
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Communication and Presentation Skills in Computer Science
In my TA workshop yesterday on communication skills, we had a discussion/brainstorm session that I captured in a document (shown on the projector) as we went along...
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Processing in Eclipse
After having to set up a Processing project in Eclipse after a long break from anything related to it, I decided to capture my notes to refer to later. I addedProcessing...
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The Beauty of Content and Structure
I recently created a website for our lab at school: Graphics, Imaging, and Games Lab (GIGL). I found it strangely satisfying, even though I didn't write a single...
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Introduction to Educational Games
Last week I did a quick introduction to educational games for our game development club. There is a client who is hoping to give students an opportunity to create...
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WISE Steps to Success a Big Success
Last Wednesday CU-WISE held a professional development event called WISE Steps to Success for a second year. It's one of our flagship events, and was designedsee...
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Powerpointless Workshops
Today I put on a workshop for my fellow TA Mentors on Powerpointless Workshops. While I don't think that using slides is totally evil, it's definitely the case...
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QR Code Story Adventures
A QR code is 2D bar code that was standardized well enough that free decoders are readily available for computers and smart phones. You can encode about 3 KB of...
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Teach Me How to Research
How many of you were formally taught how to research? I'm guessing that for many of you, like me, there was never a class or workshop available to show you howWho...
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Sneaking Computer Science Into Physics
I have been trying to convince local participants in the Let's Talk Science program that I can connect almost any of their course material to computer science. ...
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Taking Advantage of Emotion with Augmented Reality
I've been thinking about how augmented reality can take advantage of emotion to help people complete their tasks more efficiently. These musings were originally...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science