Ideas Festival Debate and Office For Women

For those of you who are interested in spending your weekend thinking about women’s body sizes and whether the future of media, virtualization and more can influence body shape, you might want to check out the Ideas Festival Debate. I’ve listed the information below. See you there! The Office for Women proudly presents ‘Beyond size 0 – is anything real?’ We invite...

Ideas Festival 2009 Brisbane – Guest Speaker

Well, the details are up on the QLD Office for Women website about the Ideas Festival in Brisbane. I’m going to be talking there as part of a panel discussion on a topic entitled ‘Beyond Size 0: Is Anything Real?’. It’ll be looking at the impact of the media’s representation of women’s bodies and will incorporate emerging technologies, which is where I come in....

Women in the AI Field – Artificial Intelligence

Barbara Liskov has become only the second woman to win the Turing Award for her work in AI. The Turing Award is considered by some to be like the Nobel Prize of computing and Liskov has long been considered a leading figure in her field. She works over at the Programming Methodology Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab at MIT in the states and she’s definitely a...