This morning, I was the studio guest at SchoolTV, a Dutch national educational television show for kids aged 11-12, to talk about robot research at Delft University and about FIRST Lego League. Click the screen shot to watch the video, I enter at about 25 minutes in.
Defense
Yesterday I defended my PhD thesis, and the wonderful @grammarware made public notes of all questions that I was asked. Also, I made a Storify with all tweets (also many by @grammarware) [<a href=”//storify.com/Felienne/dr-felienne” target=”_blank”>View the story “Dr. Felienne” on Storify</a>]
Proposition #10
There is no such thing as ‘positive’ discrimination. My final proposition is one I feel very strongly about. Being a girl in CS, this is a topic I often discuss. There are many aspects to this problem and I am listing the three mains reasons I am against. It is not ‘positive’ My foremost problem with […]
Proposition #9
“A valorisation center is useless by definition: valorisation is a state of mind that should be spread throughout an entire organization.” You might wonder what I mean with valorisation, as this is not a very well known concept outside of universities (and even within). The term originally comes from Karl Marx and basically means it […]
Proposition #8
“In applied sciences like software engineering, PhD students should not work at the university full time.” This proposition relates somewhat to Proposition #5. I think it is very important for researchers in software engineering to connect with practice. Doing industrial case studies is one option, but I want to go even further, I think young researchers […]