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 Experiences and Devices<br>Jeannette Wing, Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute; Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University</b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"> </span></b></p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px">Did you know <b>Jaime Teevan</b> played Ice Hockey when she was a student at MIT? And she believes <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2018/geek-week-take-break-read-jaime-teevans-microsoft-research-working-less/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:blue">breaks are an important part of being productive</span></a>? (A good reason to put an Xbox and a VR headset as part of the giveaway!)</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><b>Jeannette Wing</b> popularized the concept of teaching <a href="https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/computational-thinking-10-years-later/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:blue">computational thinking</span></a>. She also happened to be on the fencing team as an undergraduate at MIT in the late 1970s (<a href="http://tech.mit.edu/V98/PDF/V98-N2.pdf" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:blue">The Tech</span></a> article headline, written by Jeannette: &quot;Women fencers slash three&quot; after they won three straight matches).</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><b>Laura Schulz </b>determined that &quot;children as young as 15 months can learn tenacity from watching their parents.&quot;  What she learns from her research can help educators promote more effective learning and teaching from a much earlier age.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px"><b>Pattie Maes</b> is interested in &quot;how immersive and wearable systems can actively assist people with memory, attention, learning, decision making, communication, and wellbeing&quot; -- in fact, two of her <a href="https://www.media.mit.edu/people/pattie/projects/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:blue">students</span></a> are sharing projects at the Expo in Stata on Tuesday, including the Thinking Cap (think the Sorting Hat from Harry Potter) and Essence, an olfactory wearable that triggers scent based on biometric information. And Pattie was listed in People Magazine&#39;s annual 50 Most Beautiful People feature in the late 1990s.</li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:15px">And finally, <b>Barbara Liskov</b> is one of the first women in the United States to be awarded a doctorate from a computer science department, is an Institute Professor, and a <a href="https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/liskov_1108679.cfm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="color:blue">Turing Award winner</span></a>. Now that&#39;s luminous.</li></ul></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br>-- <br>Mahalaxmi Elango<br>Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 2020<br>Secretary of the Undergraduate Association<br>Department of EECS and Department of BCS</div>