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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
Scratch and Eighth Graders
I finished teaching the third round of my mini-course on Friday, and was so exhausted (in a good way) that I accidentally fell asleep at 9pm.This year, I tried ...
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First Course Outline
Is everyone this excited about their first course outline? I'm not sure why, but I'm feeling sort of giddy about it. I mean, sure, I've TA'ed before, and taught...
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CRA-W Grad Cohort: Tips For Finishing Your PhD
What does finishing a PhD mean and what will it take? Prof. Padma Raghavan, Pennsylvania State University, gave us a fun and informative session on taking it from...
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CRA-W Grad Cohort: Finding a Research Topic
What makes a topic appropriate for a PhD dissertation? What is and isn't computer science research? What should you do when you're stuck? All these questions and...
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CRA-W Grad Cohort: Presentation Skills
What makes a good oral presentation? According to Prof. Sandhya Dwarkadas (University of Rochester) and Ana Pop (Princeton University), there are three main areas...
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Not All Women's Groups Are Harmful
After reading Hilary Mason's Stop talking, start coding article, I was thinking about writing a reaction. It slipped my mind until Terri Oda wrote her piece Women...
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CRA-W Grad Cohort 2010 Next Week
I'm very fortunate to be attending my second CRA-W Grad Cohort next week. I also went last year when it was held near San Francisco. This year it will be near...
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Celebration a Success!
Last week Carleton's Women in Science and Engineering hosted the very first Carleton Celebration of Women in Science and Engineering, and it was a great success...
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Balancing the Needs of Industry and Academia
As I embark on this journey that is a PhD, I constantly remind myself of my goal of remaining useful. I want to retain practical skills that could be used in outside...
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TEDxCarletonU
Last night I attended a TED event for the first time ever. It was a TEDx (i.e. independently organized) event with a Carleton University flavour. The speakers...
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Carleton Celebration of Women in Science and Engineering
Ever since I attended my first Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing in 2008, I've dreamt of having a celebration of our own. Today I released a schedule...
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Ada Lovelace Day: A Researcher I Admire
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day we write about technical women we admire. Last year, I wrote about how much I admired my fellow CU-WISE executives. This year...
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Bringing the Epic Win to Real Life
Jane McGonigal said at TED 2010 that the world spends 3 billion hours per week playing games, but she'd like to see that number increase to 21 billion hours. You...
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Designing a Hybrid Card Game
I'm working on a design for a card game that incorporates a mobile device into the game play. It's for my game design class final project, which is intended to...
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Not Afraid to Make Mistakes
Imagine what you would be able to come up with if you were not afraid of making mistakes. Think of the creative results you might see when getting it wrong theTerri...
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Paper Reviews In Class
Our Open Source Engineering class is a little different from most here at Carleton's School of Computer Science. The professor wants to give students an opportunity...
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Teaching Arts Students to Like Computer Science
I might be very well the first person to request to teach COMP 1001. That's the course that arts and social science students take to get the hang of computers and...
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Teaching Computer Science in High School
Continuing on the theme of excellence in education, I would like to briefly reflect on teaching computer science in Ontario high schools. I have to point out that...
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Recognizing Excellence in Education
The TA Mentor program here at Carleton has been run in some departments for a few years now, but is in its first year in the School of Computer Science. One of...
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