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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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Teacher for a Year!
It's finally official: I get to teach for a year!Teach Your Heart Out / Krissy.Venosdale I've had this post bottled up for a while now, waiting for the papers to...
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New Template + Comments Work Again
Because someone brought it to my attention that comments weren't working anymore (and I had no idea how to fix them), I decided it was time for a new blog template...
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Why Game Designers Should Understand Procedural Rhetoric
I am sometimes asked why I think stories in games need to improve. Considering I'm studying nonlinear stories in games for my PhD project, I was for a long time...
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Technical + Creative
It's amazing how many people fail to realize that computing can be a creative field. In fact, in many cases, it has to be! For example, it makes no sense for me...
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A Forty Minute Tour of CS Education With Mark Guzdial
Mark Guzdial is one of the big names in computer science education. A couple of months ago, he spoke at the GVU Brown Bag Seminar with a talk entitled What We. ...
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Unboxing GoldieBlox
Way back when, I missed out on the Roominate Kickstarter campaign, and I regretted it afterwards. So when GoldieBlox was proposed, I jumped on it. Plus, $30 to...
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Working With Google Spreadsheets Data Directly
On Wednesday I talked about assigning numbers to my princess-and-dragon story. I have all my data in an easily parsable format in a Google Spreadsheet. I decided...
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Princesses, Dragons, and Assigning Numbers to Stories
I've been working on a prototype story for my thesis project ("Coherent Emergent Stories"). Although I have a couple of stories on the go (such as the one I made...
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Feynlabs Has the Right Idea: Start With CS Concepts
I received an email from Lee Omar of UK-based Feynlabs this morning. It opened with the following:Feynlabs believes that current IT teaching in schools which is...
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Review / Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming
There are many resources out there for Python, but I've recently had the opportunity to enjoy a fully colour printed book on the topic. Sure, it's called Python...
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Stories and Games at GRAND 2013
Last week, I attended the annual meeting of the GRAND (Graphics, Animation, and New Media) research network, held in Toronto. Although the research and discussion...
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In Which I Am Tempted to Move to California
Blog posts have been sparse lately: I have been traveling. Last week I spent five days in Palo Alto, California. The visit was primarily for the Anita Borg Institute...
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My Beautiful GRAND Conference Poster
I'm a strong believer in creating conference posters that look good. If they have a striking resemblance to printed papers, in my opinion something has gone really...
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Motherhood, Tech, and Leaning In With Marissa Mayer
Recently, I happened to start looking at some of the stories featured on the new Lean In website and came across Marissa Mayer's. For all the interest and controversy...
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Got What it Takes to Be a Technical Co-founder? Here's an Opportunity for You!
Two recent Y Combinator graduates contacted me recently in an effort to recruit a female technical co-founder for their startup. Although any awesome engineers...
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Go Code Girl a Great Success!
On Saturday the University of Ottawa held its inaugural Go Code Girl event. I designed the workshop's curriculum and taught the English section for the day. I...
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When is Augmented Reality the Right Choice?
Last fall, we published a paper about augmented reality, cognitive theories, and learning. I previously wrote about the design advantages of AR; these give insight...
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Design Advantages of Augmented Reality
Last fall, we published a paper about augmented reality, cognitive theories, and learning. One of the tasks of the work was to specifically define what the design...
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The Best Posts of All Time
I love how much easier it is to see statistics on blog post views with the most recent Blogger redesign. While these (probably?) don't account for views by RSS...
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