Tanu Mitra and Shruti Phadke received a Best Paper Honorable Mention award at ACM CSCW 2021: Shruti Phadke, Mattia Samory, Tanu Mitra. 2021. Characterizing Social Imaginaries and Self-Disclosures of Dissonance in Online Conspiracy Discussion Communities. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW’ 21), (accepted Jul 2021). They will present their paper next week.
The International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) presented the IFIP Service Award to Hans Jochen Scholl. The honor was awarded in recognition of “outstanding contributions to IFIP and the Informatics Community.”
Amy J. Ko has given three keynotes this year:
- "Requirements of Oppression”, IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, September 22, 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf1wfyfgXvA&t=12s)
- "The Roots of Inequity in K-12 CS Education”, Computer Science Teachers Association Conference, July 15th, 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD3OHXyO5xU,)
- "Deconstructing CS Culture”, IEEE RESPECT Conference, May 27th, 2021 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8TQ29I8lK4)
Joseph T. Tennis gave a talk at the Annual Meeting of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative: Tennis, J. T. "Problem-Solved: Metadata Explorations vs. Metadata Education." Dublin Core Metadata Initiative International Conference. (Online), October 2021.
Lisa G Dirks was featured in the fall issue of Focus Magazine: “University of Washington: ‘Decolonizing’ research through collaboration and data sovereignty.”
Amy J. Ko was quoted in KUOW’s RadioActive piece about Ada Developers Academy last week: ”This developers academy welcomes non-tech bros to the industry.”
The Denver Channel quoted Michelle H. Martin in a story about Reading with a Rapper and how we can find ways to make learning fun: “Reading with a Rapper program helps underserved youth with literacy.”