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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
Mental Models: What's In Our Heads?
Yesterday I saw a video of Bj
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What's This Educational Games Stuff All About, Anyway?
As you may know, my research focus for my PhD is educational games and augmented reality. But what is this educational games stuff all about, anyway? Do video games...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science
Cooperative Board Games Take Some Getting Used To
I'm sure getting together every two weeks to play board games and calling it research isn't anything new, but it's definitely something I need to do. I pride myself...
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My Favourite Grace Hopper Memories
My fellow Grace Hopper Communities Committee members wanted to share our favourite Grace Hopper memories over the next few days, and we hope you'll do the same!...
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Negative Social Stereotypes and Deep Learning
The next chapter to cover in my series of reflections on Ken Bain's What the Best College Teachers Do (started here and here) is on what teachers expect of their...
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Getting the Hang of iPhone Development
I needed to learn how to develop for the iPhone since the projects I want to work on next will be games for the device. This task was somewhat daunting, givenStanford...
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Connecting Computer Science: Results
My course is now over, the feedback via my informal survey is rolling in, and students are working out all the kinks in their knowledge as they prepare for theConnecting...
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Teaching Reflection
I'm just about finished the Graduate University Teaching Skills Certificate (GUTS) program I took this summer. I also just had the last class of my first timeBinary...
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My Grace Hopper Communities Introduction
I'm on the Grace Hopper Online Communities Committee this year, and our first mini-campaign is all about introducing ourselves and trying to encourage others to...
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Mini-Course 2010 Survey Results
Last year, I did a pretty detailed post mortem of my mini-course Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls. I had my students this year fill in a similar survey...
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Augmented Reality on Bloomberg Innovators, and Current Gaps
The weekly links post over at Games Alfresco - a blog about the latest and greatest industry and research advances in augmented reality - had a link to a documentary...
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GRAND Research Network
Last week, I attended the first GRAND Annual Conference. I didn't really know what GRAND (Graphics, Animation, New Media) was, but I knew my supervisor was a network...
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CRV 2010, Teaching, and Good Presentations
Yesterday afternoon, I gave my first academic conference paper presentation. I have given talks at conferences before (including Grace Hopper), but they weren't...
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CRV 2010
The Seventh Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2010) is being held right here in Ottawa next week, and I'll be attending at least a couple of...
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Tech Mommies
A friend of mine is expecting her first baby in the next couple of months. She asked me if I could do some maternity shots with her. The criteria? Nothing clich...
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GHC10 Talks
It's that time of year again! My travel scholarship application is in, our committee on online communities is starting to make headway, and the results of our talk...
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CSTA Voice
If you are interested in CS Education and haven't heard of CSTA's Voice newsletter (CSTA = ACM's Computer Science Teachers Association), go check it out!The CSTA...
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Feedback Before Assessment
Continuing my reflections on Ken Bain's What the Best College Teachers Do (started here), I wanted to touch on a couple of things in the chapter on preparing to...
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Applying How We Learn to Computer Science Classes
While reading What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain, I felt excited about how much the knowledge contained within could make computer science educationVisit...
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