Counting From Zero

Similar to my prior faculty position at Whitman, my position as a College Teaching Officer at King's is donor-supported. The difference is that Whitman's CS positions are supported through endowments, while the King's CS CTO position is supported by a cur

This week, I participated in my first graduation at King's College, Cambridge. As Director of Studies for the new graduates in computer science, it seemed important for me to be there. It was very different from past graduations I've experienced in the Un

And now for something completely different! This blog post tells a story of my experiences with CGMs as an interaction designer with type 2 diabetes. I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes about two years ago, just before SIGCSE 2024 in Portland. It seems l

In the very first paper session at CHI 2026, I found myself thinking, "I wish I wrote this paper!" And then I found myself thinking that a few times more. Since I'm on the hunt for new research questions, it seems worth digging into why I had these reacti

CHI 2026 in Barcelona was part of my original sabbatical plan. CHI is the premier conference spanning all areas of human-computer interaction, and Barcelona is a direct flight from the UK. It's been ten years since I last attended CHI 2016 in San Jose. Wh

At the University of Cambridge, the academic year has three eight-week terms. I'm now celebrating a successful conclusion to my first term at Cambridge - a good time to look back and reflect. A term goes by really fast, but it's a bit more than eight week

I'm starting over again - this time at one of the oldest universities in the world. Friends and colleagues know I'm on sabbatical this year from my position at Whitman. For once, I'm the trailing spouse: my husband has long-standing collaborations with fa

Here's my usual report on our spring 2025 enrollments, as of week 2 of the semester. NumberTitleEnrolled/Capunder MathShe:HeCS 167-A,BIntro. Computational Problem Solving51/601:2CS 210-A,BComputer Systems Fundamentals40/403:5CS/Math 215Introduction to Dat

I spent this past weekend at The Hackers Conference, "an annual invitation-only conference traditionally held in the San Francisco Bay Area." I was invited by my sister, a computer engineer based in Santa Clara, CA, and I was too curious not to attend. He

Today in our weekly CS Pizza talk and discussion series, the CS department hosted a panel of senior CS majors sharing their off-campus study experiences. Five juniors went abroad last year, and four were able to join the lunchtime panel. I was unable to a