Tijd voor weer een postje behorend bij mijn Ongevraagd Advies! Als vrouw in de tech sector is het voor mij geen verrassing dat techbedrijven en wie er werken uiterst conservatief zijn, en, als het erop aankomt, vrouwen (en andere traditioneel ondervertegenwoordigde groepen) liever kwijt dan rijk zijn, maar Mark Zuckerberg zei “de quiet part out […]
What does it mean for a university to have an opinion?
In this thorough piece, The American Prospect explains that while some people might hope that universities will save democracy, but that that might be tricky since they themselves are not at all democratic. This piece reminded me of a lecture I gave right before the Christmas break for students about AI & education, in which […]
Charlie Chaplin and the death of the internet
We had a teenager over for New Year’s Eve, and one of his biggest hobby is to explain to me and my husband (“boomers” as he calls us even though we are millenials) what terminally online kids do these days; which words and memes and emoji are still in use. And this is how my […]
Paper: Feminism in Programming Language Design
Next week I will visit SPLASH to present a paper titles “A case for feminism in programming language design”, co-authored with Ari Schlesinger. A preprint of the paper can be found at the end of this post, if you want to check it out, or in the ACM digital library. I fully understand that this […]
Soon all UX will be a Skinner box
Part 1: Lane Assist We recently bought a car, a fancy new car with fancy options like lane assist: a feature that keeps the car in its lane by moving the steering wheel for you. In theory, it is a great feature. In practice, it sometimes fails. Not often, but often enough it will decide […]
