How HLF changed my life: Omowunmi Isafiade The COVID-19 pandemic forces us all to pause, reflect, and adapt. While the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum has been postponed to September 2021, this year’s Virtual HLF will take place from Monday, September 21 until Friday, September 25, 2020. … 31. Aug 2020 | By Jens-Steffen Scherer | 0 comments
Women in Maths Exhibition – a graphic summary This year the HLF hosted the Women of Mathematics exhibition, that has been shown in already 18 countries since its creation in 2016. Here is a graphic summary of the HLF edition of this exhibition. … 22. Oct 2018 | By Constanza Rojas-Molina | 0 comments
4 Tech Heroines we should celebrate on Ada Lovelace Day and International Girls Day Post written by Dr. Larissa Suzuki of Chair of Smart Cities, Tech London Advocates and H Research Associate, Department of Computer Science – University College London I have spent the last decade of my life working with applied … 12. Oct 2017 | By suzuki | 4 comments
Women in Computer Science and Mathematics Two years ago, I had the opportunity to talk to Lenore Blum, one of the invited speakers at the 3rd HLF in 2015 and a professor of computer science at Carnegie-Mellon university, who had been … 29. Sep 2017 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments
Women in Computer Science 2/2: Changing the culture This is the story of how the School of Computer Science (SCS) at Carnegie Mellon University went from few female students before 1995, many of which later transferred out of the course, to 40% female … 01. Sep 2015 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments
Women in Computer Science 1/2: Beyond mere programming Before 1995, the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University, one of the top-ranked programs in the US, had low numbers when it came to admission and retention of female students: single-digit percentages for the … 28. Aug 2015 | By Markus Pössel | 0 comments
