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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
Pseudocontext in Computer Science
Can you imagine a programming assignment or example where "common sense and real-world knowledge are not needed"? Math teacher (and now PhD student in education)...
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Preparing to Answer Questions You Don't Know the Answer To
I'm pretty bad at answering questions on the spot unless I already know the answer (in which case I am practically no longer conscious of the good things I'm saying)...
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Pushing Game Narratives Beyond Linearity
I remember a student telling me the other week that she thought writing stories for games was easy, and wondered if there were jobs doing that. I had been giving...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Story of My Comps
I did my oral defence for my comprehensive exam this morning and wanted to share what I learned, since it might help others. The details aren't important, butDolly...
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Rejected From CHI and I Feel Fine
I remember seeing a non-zero amount of grumbling last year when acceptance notifications for CHI came out. In particular, those who were rejected listed all kinds...
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My Last Exams Ever (Hopefully)
This week I've been very busy with my written comprehensive exams. These exams are one of the last PhD requirements I have to worry about before the thesis proposal...
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Is Kinect Doomed to Casual Gaming?
Dance Central by Harmonix appears to be one of the better Kinect launch titles (some say the best). I'm personally very excited about getting it for my birthday...
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CHI Twitter Hashtag
In September I submitted my first CHI paper. Since then we've got our reviews back and written a rebuttal, and now must wait until the final decision comes down...
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From Blogging to ABI Board of Advisors
I just joined the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology (ABI)'s Board of Advisors, and while I'm obviously pretty excited about this on a personal level,...
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Traditional and Software Architects are Even Closer than You Think
I received a comment on Is a Software Architect Worthy of the Name? via email from Lourens Veen, a software architect for a project at the University of Amsterdam...
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Imagine Cup: Becoming a Computer Scientist
We all know there aren't enough women in computer science. There have been several different approaches to encouraging them to consider it as a career, from fun...
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Is a Software Architect Worthy of the Name?
I have a friend who is an architect (the kind that designs buildings instead of software). I was reminded recently of a conversation my husband and I had withThe...
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Kinect
It took me a whole two days after launch to finally get it, but I now not only have a Kinect but my first Xbox console. After playing an evening with my husband...
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Passion and Problem Solving
There's a new theme over at Comp Sci Woman about what we love, and I wrote the first post for it: There are two things I love the most about computer science:rest...
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Different Perspectives on Projection
I've been studying for my upcoming PhD comprehensive exams, and my major topic is computer graphics. Even though I haven't actually had the opportunity to take...
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Top Ten Technology Trends for the Future
Carrie Gates of CA Labs gave a talk at this past weekend's Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing: "Technology Trends for the Future, and Their Implications." ...
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SIGCSE 2011 Paper on My Computing Course for Non-Majors
I submitted a paper to this year's SIGCSE (ACM's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education) conference that didn't get in. The reviews were actually...
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Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing
Just in case I wasn't attending enough Women in Computing events (see posts on this year's Grace Hopper), I registered for the Ontario Celebration of Women in Computing...
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Embedded Phenomena, Augmented Reality, and Education
I love it when something so simple is so effective. Tom Moher's 2006 paper [ACM, CiteSeer] describing his work on what he calls Embedded Phenomena was a case of...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science