This was discussed at the WECS meeting this week, there's a new attention to it as the number of women enrolled in undergraduate programs from a high of 20% to 17%. See the full report here. Recommendations are as follows: Raise the profile and improve the image of the profession. Explore how engineering curriculum and its delivery ...
I don't know what to think anymore. Too much information from all sides, some positive, some not so much. Today in the space of 10 minutes I came across these two things, one positive for equality - the other, not so much (although the video is charming). Positive - Marcus Buckingham writing in the HuffPost - ...
Tomorrow I'm running an introduction to Java via Wave. Because I've had a degree of interest from non-complete beginners in learning Processing, I've split the content so that one session will be Java: Building Blocks which will teach the very basics of Java but does not introduce Processing, and the other session will be An ...
There are two things that are almost guaranteed to bring out the giant ***** in me. One is people who accost me in the street trying to convert me to one religion or another (it's amazing none of them have punched me for suggesting they're mentally ill). The other thing is sales calls. I think this ...
After I gave my presentation the other week, someone asked a question. It was: So, basically what you're doing is data-mining? And I said, no, well yes, but that's not how I think about it. I see it as creating something that will help people understand their use of Twitter. The fact that I achieve this by ...
I'd never heard of Don Dodge until about a week ago, until he was one of the people laid off in Microsoft's latest round of layoffs. He took it with great class, you can read the blogpost here. I didn't subscribe to his blog before, but his blogpost about his departure went viral on Twitter. A ...
So far this is the best new name I have for my blog. I'm still brainstorming, but this is a story I want to tell and now is as good a time as any. I wrote, a while ago, about how I don't have Imposter Syndrome any more. Perhaps it would have been better to say, ...
Goals for this week were: Finish putting together presentation, record and upload it. See it here. Put together loop exercises for extra session with my DGD group. Start CA Assignment 3 (this one will apparently be shorter) – aim for half done. Marking. Read 5 papers. Join gym (physio says yoga and body pump allowed – finally!!) attended a body pump ...
I know, it's been a long time coming. But finally - my new visualization which I've created using IBM's Many Eyes (which is awesome, although very blue). Since Twitter released it's new "Lists" feature, there's been talk about how Lists are a good way to measure influence - someone who is on more lists is likely ...
Ignite is a tough format - 5 minutes, 20 slides, and the slides advance every 15 seconds. As such, the talks aren't so much informative as inspiring and I really enjoyed the evening. First such event in Ottawa, but hopefully there will be more to come. You can see the full line up here, however sadly ...
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