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Press

Various blog posts:

  • Communications of the ACM Blog@ACM, where I post periodically (links to recent posts are given below)

    • How We Teach Should Be Independent Of Who We Are Teaching, October 11, 2016.

    • A Very Local Snapshot of K-12 CS Education, June 30, 2016.

    • Why is Ada Lovelace Still the Woman that Young (and Not So Young) Women Look To?, December 10, 2015.

    • The ‘Frenzy About High Tech Talent’ and a Call for Corporate Action, October 26, 2015.

    • If Something Seems Odd, Check the Data, and Check It Again!, August 18, 2015.

    • Things That Men Can Do To Be Real Allies For Women In Computing, August 3, 2015

    • Some Thoughts For Computer Science Teaching Assistants (and Faculty), January 4, 2015

    • Women in STEM, Women in Computer Science: We’re Looking At It Incorrectly, December 1, 2014

    • The Toy Aisle Matters More Than Ever: Girls and Computing, November 19, 2014

    • Satya Nadella and Grace Hopper, October 16, 2014

    • The Frontier of Small Data, September 29, 2013

    • Is It Time to Change How Software Developers Are Hired?, December 18, 2012

    • Exciting ‘Big Data’ Medical Applications, November 12, 2012

  • Computer Science Teachers Association Advocate Blog, where I posted when I was on the CSTA board (links for select posts are below)

    • Something Old, Something New, July 30, 2013

    • What’s Not to Love About NYC Pilot Program, March 25, 2013

    • On Grades and STEM, February 12, 2013

    • You can be a computer scientist and a feminist, part of Anita’s Quilt - Threads of Inspiration, January 31, 2013

    • There’s Nothing Like a Good Book, November 3, 2012

Press articles and other media

  • Computer Science as Liberal Arts ‘Enabler’, Inside Higher Ed, February 23, 2016

  • Ahead of the Class, Behind in the Field, Albany Times Union Women@Work magazine, February, 2016.

  • Logging on to the Future, Colby Magazine, Fall 2015.

  • Diversity Careers in Engineering and Information Technology, quoted in the article “Will women fill the need for more IT professionals”, Summer/Fall 2012.

  • New York Times Letter to the Editor, 4/9/2012

  • “STEM and Humanities: It Isn’t Either-Or”, published by 4Humanities, January 17, 2012

  • SQL Anywhere picked up some of my blog post on Barbara Liskov’s talk at the 2011 Grace Hopper Conference

  • NSF CISE Broader Impacts for Research and Discovery Summit, 2010