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Jane is an assistant professor in a computing field, and a new mother. Join her as she navigates the tenure track, deals with gender issues, figures out how to be a parent, and tries to have some semblance of a life.

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Blogging about teaching: the miniseries
Introduction
The intro courses
The intro courses, part 2
The mid-tier courses
The upper-level courses

Stuff I should probably be working on:
Journal paper #1 -- submitted, under review
Journal paper #2 -- being retooled, 60% complete
Journal paper #3 -- publication pending!
Easy conference paper -- experiments completed, need to start writing!
Next stage work -- preliminary experiments complete
Cool extension -- preliminary data gathered

miscellania:

The Vegetarian Hundred

I saw this meme over at Adventures in Ethics and Science: The Vegetarian's Hundred, a veggie-flavored response to the recent Omnivore's Hundred meme. I'm going to play by Janet's rules, which are: [original] If you want to play along, here's...

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Posted on September 10, 2008 10:40 PM • 2 Comments •

Hypothetical thought question of the day

If you could sit down for lunch, or coffee, one-on-one, with a Very Very Big Name in your field (think Nobel Laureate or, for the CS crowd, Turing Award winner, or similar), what questions would you ask her/him? (Beyond specific...

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Posted on May 27, 2008 9:48 PM • 6 Comments •

You know it's a bad day when....

You could have stayed in bed all day and gotten more accomplished than you actually did. You are a computer scientist---someone who works with computers for a living---and can't figure out how to program a seemingly simple thing on...

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Posted on March 25, 2008 11:42 PM • 7 Comments •