Back down in Cambridge. Got here about 10:15 PM just in time to meet my old friends Pol and Kathy. I met them both when I was at Carnegie Mellon. It’s been at least 20 years since I’ve seen them. It was so great catching up. They are both my favorite type of nerds. Great catching up on kids, creations, old friends.
Earlier today got to go out for a nice run and then a walk with Diane and the dogs by the river shore .
Back in Vermont for 24 hours to deal with a plumbing issue and see Diane and the doggies
Back from a very exciting and fun tech together hackathon at Boston University this weekend. It was really an amazing event. More than 1000 women and non-binary gender hackers.
I was SO Impressed with the creativity and energy of all of these folks. Our challenge on technology fairness Turned out to be very popular. We had 18 teams Create solutions from hiring tools to ASL interpretation to bias in security screening.
I was there until about 3am last night working with one of the teams. It was actually hard saying goodbye to them Since it was so fun to work with them.
We had a great group of volunteers from IBM and represented really well. My thanks to all our teammates into Valentina and Pooja for being the coordinator’s
Here’s some pictures from the event today
Here’s the judging training event
The hackathon volunteers
The fabulous hand hand revolution team that used ibm tools to do ask recognition!
. My friend Heena from my Old IOT days
That’s ASL for IBM
Acres and acres of pizza
Award time!
Up on stage with Pooja to give out the awards
Our first place winners the hiring team… Their app removed the bias in hiring
Out asl team
My favorite team SafeNet… These are the folks I worked with until 3 AM. Excellent programmers and excellent people. I look forward to working with them again
We got all of the team together afterwards… Good thing that I had “this girl is on fire”loaded on my tesla coil… Doesn’t everyone? 🙂
It’s 330 in the morning and I’m just getting back to my room.
Long day of working at the tech together hack-athon. Amazing collection of women and non-binary gender technical folks. Lots of great ideas and as always lots of technical challenges.
Too late to go into too much detail. I’ll leave that for tomorrow.
It’s about 1 AM and I’m just getting back to my airbnb . I’m in Boston this weekend helping with the Tech together hack-athon… This hack-athon, which used to be called shehacks Is Boston’s largest female and non-binary gender Heckathorne. I’m here with my friends from Ibm and we offered a challenge around fairness for ai.
It’s such a great crowd of people… We’ve been wondering around talking to people about their ideas. I’m really blown away with the creativity.
It was great meeting everyone
The hacking happens down on the floor of a giant auditorium. I was here once before for first robotics challenge
It was great hanging out with my IBM friends and all the new folks we met
They handed out exfoliating masks… I chose cucumber. It made me look like Michael Myers !
Our sessions have been very popular. Our 11 PM session was standing room only which was kind of hard to believe
. My friend Heena from my Old IOT days
