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04/07/2021
Throughout the pandemic, WiCS has sent 62 care packages to students with materials including:
📚 An O'Reilly textbook on design patterns
😷 Face masks, designed for our fellow glass-wearers
📓 Notebooks, for keeping track of what day of quarantine we are in.
🍫 Snacks, to lift our spirits!
This , give back to the community! Find out more at https://psudayofgiving.org/wics
With the pandemic came closed doors, and our beloved Fishbowl in 4th Ave. has been off limits. That's why We in Computer Science started the 'Virtual Fishbowls': to promote togetherness in the era of social distancing.
Using Gather, a 2D video platform, we've made an interactive space for our community to hangout and keep in touch. This is just one of many things WiCS has done to promote community in our department.
Find out more about our Virtual Fishbowls at wics.cs.pdx.edu and donate this Day of Giving at psudayofgiving.org/wics
04/06/2021
Today is Portland State's Day of Giving! Join us today in making a gift to support We in Computer Science. https://psudayofgiving.org/wics
Throughout the day, keep an eye out for posts from WiCS! If you can donate, please go to the link above and share these posts with your friends, family, and coworkers :)
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03/31/2021
Join us Friday 12 - 1:30 PM for our April Town Hall: a watch party on Coded Bias! We’ll be watching as a group at https://pdx.zoom.us/j/8369214908.
Modern society sits at the intersection of two crucial questions: What does it mean when artificial intelligence increasingly governs our liberties? And what are the consequences for the people AI is biased against? When MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini discovers that many facial recognition technologies do not accurately detect darker-skinned faces or classify the faces of women, she delves into an investigation of widespread bias in algorithms. As it turns out, artificial intelligence is not neutral, and women are leading the charge to ensure our civil rights are protected.
03/04/2021
Yes, this is the same Ada that our favorite linux server is named after!
Although Ada Lovelace earned little public recognition during her lifetime, she is now considered a pioneer and prophet of the computer age. Although many men of the time feared “the very great tension of mind which [sophisticated mathematics] requires is beyond a woman’s physical power,” Lovelace viewed things differently, writing: “Nothing but a very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop the voice which seems to be left in my mind.” bit.ly/3rrwWCU
02/12/2021
CONGRATULATIONS!! To Mechanical Engineering students for Leslie Baker Lyon and Catie Spivey receiving the Brooke Owens Fellowship.
The Brooke Owens Fellowship Program is a nationally-acclaimed nonprofit organization recognizing exceptional undergraduate women and other gender minorities with space and aviation internships, senior mentorship, and a lifelong professional network.
The Class of 2021 is the fifth class of “Brookie” Fellows. This year, more than 800 undergraduate students applied from 339 universities in 14 countries. Forty-four Fellows were selected through a competitive application process. The selected Fellows have demonstrated their desire to pursue a career in aerospace, a record of leadership, a commitment to their communities, and their inexhaustible creativity.
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