
Dr. Valerie Barr
@vbarr4
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My CS motto: just because we can, should we?
Joined July 2011
Great trip to DC. Did the obligatory family stuff but also had our usual wonderful dinner @DasEthiopian and heard great music @bluesalley.
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RT @AJLUnited: In celebration of Women's Equality Day, we're highlighting last fall's @RollingStone Magazine feature by Lorena O'Neil (@lor….
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A chance to talk about work I’ve been doing for a very long time. An opportunity to explain why this data analysis approach is critical for understanding exactly who is and is not coming into computing.
Co-author @VBarr4 (@BardCollege) discusses "Visualizing Progress in Broadening Participation in Computing: The Value of Context"(, and describes new ways of analyzing degree data in an original video.
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Time to rethink how you look at degree data! Thanks to @CarlaBrodley and @mapq for the wonderful collaboration!!.
"Visualizing Progress in Broadening Participation in Computing: The Value of Context," by @VBarr4 (@BardCollege), @CarlaBrodley (@KhouryCollege), @MAPQ (@UNCCharlotte), calls for better measures of CS degree data to account for changing demographics.
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Reasonable thoughts on generative AI by Rodney Brooks
techcrunch.com
Robotics pioneer Rodney Brooks thinks people are overestimating generative AI's capabilities and it's time to put the brakes on the hype.
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