Nominated for Celebrate Her 2012
It was announced on Twitter that Serena Ngai and I were nominated for Celebrate Her for our work with Girl Develop It Ottawa:
Meet GirlDevelopItOttawa founders @SerenaNgai + @GailCarmichael nominated for #CHER2012 by @robdup @kristopherwong ow.ly/8qlth
— Amanda Cottreau (@CelebrateHERorg) January 12, 2012
Featured in The Huffington Post's List of Women in Tech to Follow
As part of The Huffington Post's series on women in tech, I was number 12 and one of the only practicing technologists in their original list of 27 women in tech to follow on Twitter.
Appathon Team Featured in Carleton Newsroom Article
Our team won the "Most Technically Challenging" award for the Great Canadian Appathon. Our story was featured in the Carleton newsroom:
The Carleton student project called Sandscape was designed to help players remember those happy, sunny days at the beach when the most important thing in their lives was a competition to see who could build the biggest network of sand trenches.
Featured in National Post for the Great Canadian Appathon
As one of the few female developers in the nation-wide competition, I was interviewed and featured in a National Post newspaper article:
Gail Carmichael is accustomed to being something of an anomaly.
It’s not because the 27-year-old computer science PhD student is wired-in to her Acer laptop at the Carleton University hub for the Great Canadian Appathon, sporting a blue “You had me at Hello World” t-shirt.
It’s because she’s the only female coder in the small classroom.
The Top 50 Computer Science Bloggers
Listed as number 3 as a student blogger:
3. The Female Perspective of Computer Science : It is well-known that women are underrepresented in this field, which makes a female blogger like Gail Carmichael particularly interesting. Get this PhD student’s perspective on getting by in this subject.
10 Terrific Tech Blogs
My blog, The Female Perspective of Computer Science, was listed as number 7 on a July 2010 BlogHer article called Want to Find Women Blogging Design, Coding and Gadgets? 10 Terrific Tech Blogs.
VII. The Female Perspective of Computer Science
The Female Perspective of Computer Science is from Gail Carmichael, who is working on a doctorate in Computer Science. Her fields of study include educational entertainment and augmented reality, both of which get discussed on the blog. Other topics include visual computing, games, events, computer science and women.
Recently she wrote about Getting the Hang of iPhone Development.
I needed to learn how to develop for the iPhone since the projects I want to work on next will be games for the device. This task was somewhat daunting, given that I hadn't really even used a Mac before, let alone Objective-C or Xcode. Luckily, there are some really great resources out there that you should check out if you are also just getting started.
So far, the most invaluable resource for me has been the Stanford iTunes U lectures on iPhone development. After watching the lectures via iTunes, you can download all the course materials, including slides and assignments.
A free course from Standford so you can learn how to develop for iPhone? Dang, that's great information!
Communications of ACM Blogroll
My blog, The Female Perspective of Computer Science, was added to the Association for Computing Machinery's Communications of the ACM Blogroll in 2010. (See also About the Blogs.)
CBC Radio Interview
Fellow CU-WISE member Terri and I were interviewed on a morning program for CBC Ottawa Radio. We talked about women in science and engineering in general, and a special event we were planning at Carleton called the Celebration of Women in Science and Engineering. Listen to the MP3 of the interview.
Top 5 List of Women Tech Leaders to Follow on Twitter
Jo Miller wrote a column for the Anita Borg Institute for Women in Technology on the 5 Women Tech Leaders You Should Follow on Twitter. I made the list:
5. The Emerging Leader
@gailcarmichael
One to watch! Gail Carmichael is a PhD student in Computer Science at Carleton University, focusing on educational entertainment and augmented reality. She has a passion for encouraging girls to enjoy computer science. Carmichael blogs on The Female Perspective of Computer Science.
I Love Your Blog!
Featured in a BlogHer post called I Love Your Blog!
In The Female Perspective of Computer Science, Gail talks about her graduate student work, mentoring, technical conferences, gaming, gender, and visual computing. She'll be speaking at the Grace Hopper conference this fall, on her mini-course, Computer Science and Games: Just for Girls! Her posts on being female in computer science grad school give a valuable glimpse into specific strategies that women can use to deal with some of the difficulties that come up for women working in a male-dominated field. Gail outlines problems clearly and suggests practical things to do. I appreciate that, and think her advice is applicable in other fields than computer science!
I Am A Technical Woman
I ended up making the cut in the video made during the 2008 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. I'm about 0:49 in.
Blog Mentioned in ACM SIGSOFT Column
My blog was found on a page titled Surfing the Net for Software Engineering Notes, which contains all the links mentioned in a column by Mark Doernhoefer, found in ACM's newsletter for the Special Interest Group on Software Engineering. Check out the November 2008 issue if you have access to the digital library.
I mentioned that blogs allow the blogger the opportunity to create their own community of interest surrounding a specific topic. This blog illustrates this point by featuring one person’s (in this case a graduate student in Computer Science at Carleton University) view on her experience as a women in the world of Computer Science. It’s an excellent resource for various conferences and projects that focus on women in computing. The blogger, who only goes by her first name, Gail, publishes announcements on events such as the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, and the CONNECT project for the social networking of computer scientists. Gail writes very well and manages to maintain an active blog in addition to her class work. In addition to women in computing, other blog articles discuss computer animation and use of animation in video game design and engineering. This is another blog hosted out of the Google Blogger site where, after free registration, you can start your own blog.
Carleton Donor Report
I wrote on my blog about the donor appreciation dinner I went to as a Carleton University student that benefited from donor support. As a result, I was asked to be a part of the donor report via photographs. The results are archived online.
Carleton School of Computer Science Video
I was featured fairly prominently in this promotional video:
2008 and 2009 Anita Borg Canada Scholarship Announcements
Google announced the winners of the 2008 and 2009 Anita Borg Scholarships on their official blog. I was a finalist both years.
In 2003 we established the Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship to honor the work of Dr. Anita Borg, a computer scientist who dedicated her professional career to increasing the participation of women and other under-represented minorities in the field of technology.
Featured in Carleton Now
When I graduated with my Bachelor's degree, an article was written about me in the newspaper Carleton Now. The article was called Behind the Screen and talked about how I got into computers. You can read the archived article online.