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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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Carleton Quest Now Available in the App Store
I celebrated New Year's by getting my first iPhone app into the App Store! It's a story-based QR code activity (currently but probably not permanently called Carleton...
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Research Article About Me: Creating Compelling Computer Games
There's a nice story about my research on the Carleton website. I'm particularly happy to see it because it hasn't been easy to figure out my exact thesis project...
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Celebrating One Whole Year
Yesterday was Molly's first birthday, and we had a wonderful family celebration. Looking back, I realized just how much I've accomplished this year! With Christmas...
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An Update on Tracking My Time
You may recall back in September that I was bringing back time sheets to help myself manage my time between looking after my baby girl and doing schoolwork. Now...
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The Zombie Game That's Not Really About Zombies
My brother got me a copy of The Walking Dead, which includes all five of the episodes that were previously released separately. He said he got it for three reasons...
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Review / Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving
Programming involves a particular flavour of problem solving. If you're a beginner trying to get better at it, an educator teaching beginners, or just someone who...
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Proof Overtime Is Bad
I am against overtime. I do as little of it as possible. And now I have proof that this philosophy actually makes sense!The Sleeping Geek Kitten - Angers - / Nathonline...
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Resources for Testing Game Story Ideas
I will soon be trying out simple nonlinear narrative ideas for my thesis research, and wanted to find (freely available) tools that will make doing so much easier...
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Things I Like About Python
Back in May I wrote a popular post about which was a better beginners language: Processing or Python. Although I concluded that Processing was better for the audiences...
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Indie Game: The Movie
I am very grateful that I will (hopefully) be lucky enough to see my vision for my Gram's House game developed professionally with research grants. After watching...
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Seeking Nominations for the 2013 Women of Vision Awards
I serve on the Advisory Board of the Anita Borg Institute, an organization focused on increasing women's participation in the technology workforce --- as technologists...
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I'm Going To Be a TEDx Speaker
I'm happy that I'm starting to get noticed when it comes to my public speaking abilities. My latest speaking request was for a local edition of TED on DecemberTEDxSandyHillWomen...
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Two Interesting Games With a Message
I found a couple of interesting games after reading Kotaku's recent article The Complicated Truth Behind Games That Want to Change the World. One has more gameplay...
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Research Snapshot for Fall 2012
Now that I'm back in school full time, it's a good time to have a look at where I am research-wise. Here are some of the projects I'm working on and what progress...
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Passing the CU-WISE Torch
I'm one of the original founders of our Carleton University Women in Science and Engineering group. I stayed on the exec for a few years, stepping down only when...
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My Brief Visit to E-Learn
I went to Montreal on Wednesday to present my work on what makes augmented reality good for learning (and in general, really). The conference was the World Conference...
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NSF Funding Opportunities and Effective Proposal Writing Strategies (GHC12)
Even though I'm a Canadian grad student, the Grace Hopper session on National Science Foundation (NSF) opportunities was very relevant to me. As my collaborators...
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Go Lean, Go Agile: Are We There Yet? (GHC12)
The concept of agile development has always fascinated me, particularly because I haven't had the opportunity yet to work on an agile team. (This despite having...
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Lili Cheng: Creativity, Learning, and Social Software (GHC12)
Who knew a past in physical architecture would suit a career in technology research so well! Lili Cheng — general manager of Microsoft Research's FUSE labs — did...
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