by Mary Sheeran on Mar 15, 2022 | Tags: academic culture, academic observers, changing Universities, gender equality in academia, honest conversations
We all need to step up and start working to improve gender equality in computer science and engineering. This is the second of two blog posts about this fascinating and frustrating problem, in which I provide three suggestions for how to get started.
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by Mary Sheeran on Jan 27, 2022 | Tags: Academia, action, community, culture, gender equality, STEM
We all need to step up and start working to improve gender equality in computer science and engineering. In two blog posts, I give my view of this fascinating and frustrating problem. I provide three suggestions for how to get started.
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by Michael Greenberg on Apr 13, 2021 | Tags: explainers, interactive, journal, open access, publishing, web
Academic communities have increased the reach and accessibility of their work by publishing interactive, open-access, open-source articles on the web that explain both core and emerging ideas in their fields. It’s time for the PL community to do the same.
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by Joseph W. Cutler, Harry Goldstein, Andrew K. Hirsch, Jaemin Hong, and Chandrakana Nandi on Mar 25, 2021 | Tags: conferences, covid-19, early-career researchers, virtual conferences
Five early-career researchers bring their perspective to the debate on conference formats after COVID. They discuss the needs of junior researchers and how different approaches address those needs.
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by Jens Palsberg, Emery Berger, Derek Dreyer, Michael Hicks, and Jan Vitek on Mar 9, 2021 | Tags: conferences, covid-19, virtual conferences
After COVID, what do we want our conferences to look like? We will examine some options and ask you to fill out a survey.
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by Michael Greenberg on Sep 29, 2020 | Tags: formalism, gradual typing, notation, type system
Research in programming languages offers powerful tools, but our systems of notation stymie outsiders. Can we change our notational approach and broaden our audience—without compromising on content?
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