FeelingElephants

Here's the story behind my blog's title.

I use the power of the internet to take human trafficking offline for my day job, but what I say here is mine, all mine.

Back from Hopper, Still Flying

Picture by Katy Dickinson (my mom) [Me in the suit presenting my poster to Maria Klawe, President of Harvey Mudd] Originally uploaded by John Plocher

I’ve made some interesting academic changes (see next post) since returning from Hopper, and feel tastefully in control of my life (for now). I planned a successful [...]

Ignite Talks, GHC 2009

This posts are part of a series of official blog posts I am doing for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. You will find them cross-posted here.

“Opening the house of technology”. That could have been the sub-title of this year’s inaugural Ignite Talks. Yes, there were major differences in approaches (from [...]

Change Agent Awards Panel – sponsored by Google

This posts are part of a series of official blog posts I am doing for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. You will find them cross-posted here.

Below are my impressions from the Change Agents Awards Panel for GHC09, and after that are the official bios of these incredible women.

Africa seems [...]

Awesome ACM Post about my Hopper Poster and p4!

Last night I (and my poster for pfour) were randomly selected to be profiled on an ACM blog. Here is the awesome write-up. Presenting the post last night was so much fun! I chatted with students, a president of a college, at CTO of a major tech company, and friends from last year. This female-community [...]

A Cryptographic Solution for Patient Privacy in Electronic Health Records

This posts are part of a series of official blog posts I am doing for the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. You will find them cross-posted here.

– As someone who has a close family member in and out of hospitals, patient privacy is a significant interest. Melissa Chase (link goes to her [...]