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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 …
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NCWIT at Grace Hopper: Recruiting and Retaining Women
From the Communications of ACM blog:Research scientists Lecia Barker and Joanne Cohoon from the National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) gaveGrace...
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Dancing with Hundreds of Technical Women at Grace Hopper
From the Communications of ACM blog:When I tell someone about the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing , I start by explaining the dance parties. I...
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Usable Security
One of the sessions I attended on Wednesday at GHC was a PhD forum. In this special type of session, three PhD students present their research in an hour, andLaurian...
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The Impact of the Grace Hopper Celebration
In addition to my own blog, I'm writing a few posts for the Communications of ACM blog about the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing.From my first...
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Sight Seeing in Atlanta
I arrived in Atlanta on Monday for this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. The conference officially started on Tuesday night, so we had aAtlanta...
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Who I Want to Meet at Grace Hopper
A great way to gear up for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing is to decide what your goals are for when you get there. This year, for the first...
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Thoughts on Writing My First CHI Paper
I've been working on a paper for CHI2011, one of the (or the?) top conferences in human computer interaction. I'm aiming really high with this and know full well...
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CompSci Woman: Technology is Women's Work
Have you seen the new CompSci Woman blog yet? No? Well get over there and check it out! And better yet, if you happen to be female and have any kind of computer...
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Back to School (If You Ever Left)
Today is the first official day back to school, even though classes don't start until Thursday. I used to get very excited about this new beginning, but lately...
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When Having a Lot of Facebook Friends is Good
Some people scoff at those who have too many friends on Facebook. "They probably just friend a bunch of people they don't know to look popular," they say. While...
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Getting Ready for a Conference
Grace Hopper is fast approaching so I find myself, once again, madly going through my usual routine list of tasks to do before heading to a conference. Here'sView...
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LaTeX in LyX
If you ever need to write up a paper in LaTeX and you aren't terribly interested in doing it by hand, I'd like to recommend the open source software LyX. It'scrash...
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Grace Hopper How-To's
The Online Communities Committee for this year's Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing has been working to bring you a series of how-to's that are intended...
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Outreach Campaign: Smart Girls Rock!
I've been leading an effort for our Women in Science and Engineering group, CU-WISE, to create a set of promotional items intended to be used during outreach events...
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Carcassonne
Some friends finally got me to download the iPhone version of the addicting game Carcassonne, and I've quite enjoyed it so far. But thanks to my recent desirediscussed...
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A Different Perspective on P != NP
Ok, obviously this potential proof for P != NP is causing quite a stir. I really wasn't planning on blogging about it, but today I had the opportunity to share...
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Why I Never Learned Scientific Experimentation in High School
Every lab report was the same. We started off by copying down the hypothesis written in the text book or lab assignment, listed the equipment used, wrote out the...
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What Your Identity Has to Do With Learning
What happens if one of your identities conflicts with what you're trying to learn in school? For instance, what if you are a creationist Christian learning science...
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Work Where You Work Best
Summers can be a bit lonely at universities. Without the hustle and bustle of thousands of undergrads to keep things looking and feeling busy, and with many faculty...
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