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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

research:

Who owns student work?

Typically, when I want to use a student's work that s/he handed in as an assignment for one of my classes in another context, I email the student to ask for his/her permission. For instance, sometimes I want to use...

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Posted on August 13, 2008 2:39 PM • 19 Comments •

Summertime, and the living is definitely not easy

Where is my summer?? I thought once July hit and the busyness of June subsided that I'd actually have time to, you know, maybe, relax a bit. Ha! This has been a particularly busy week. The good news is that...

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Posted on July 18, 2008 12:07 AM • 6 Comments •

The care and feeding of research students

I have a few undergraduate students working in my lab for part of the summer. They started this week. Working with undergrads is something I do every summer---well, except for last summer, when I was on maternity leave. So you'd...

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Posted on June 17, 2008 11:58 PM • 0 Comments •

Taking up space

The theme of this month's Scientiae carnival is "Added Weight: Taking up Space." This theme is very timely for me, since I've been thinking about this topic lately---a lot. And, readers of the old blog may remember that my "theme"...

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Posted on June 2, 2008 10:42 PM • 4 Comments •

Identity crisis

My research straddles several subfields---let's call them X, Y, Q, and Z (because I'm not in the mood to come up with more descriptive terms). Z is really a minor related area, and Q is a peripherally related area, so...

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Posted on May 17, 2008 11:42 PM • 14 Comments •

Is computer science a science? (part 1a: what do computer scientist do?)

Before I get too deeply into the Is computer science a science? series, ScienceMama suggested that I give my non-computer scientist readers an idea of what computer scientists actually do on a daily basis. I'm going to focus on what...

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Posted on March 27, 2008 11:15 AM • 9 Comments •

Wait, did I just see a pig fly?

Longtime readers of this blog are familiar with the struggles I've had to finish and submit journal articles. In particular, there are two such articles that I've been working on forever that I just couldn't seem to wrap up, for...

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Posted on March 20, 2008 1:03 AM • 4 Comments •