I was invited to give a talk as part of Vox Feminarum’s Women’s Voices History Month and so to have a bit of fun and refresh my memory about the content, I created a trailer for it.
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Tag: human-computer interaction
Bacon on Ice-cream: McDonald’s drive-thru AI
One story which stands out in and amongst the hype is, how fast-food chain McDonald’s withdrew its AI from the drive-thru. In this talk I will explore exactly what happened.
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Duolingo Dutch: Ik spreek een beetje Nederland
Here I am, 525 days later faithfully learning Dutch daily, endlessly charmed and fascinated by this language, amazed by how far I have gotten with five minutes a day on an app.
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Fighting, typing, and computing
Little did I know that my journey from secretarial training to computer scientist was the classic one women had been
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When women were computers
The first computers were women. They were actually called ‘computers’ as programming was traditionally female clerical work – lowly paid
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