Information Technologies are connecting people worldwide,
making our lives richer and more comfortable. At present, not enough women in Europe are choosing careers in
the Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) sector. The European Commission decided to
do something about the lack of women in IT careers. Every year, the Commission launches a
shadowing exercise, working together with some leading companies
and universities active in Europe, to give young women a taste of what a job in ICT would be like. The idea has been to show them what a typical day would be like, by accompanying or "shadowing" a female role model for a day.
This year, the Dept of Computer Science has taken part in the shadowing
exercise too! Take a look at some pics from the exercise below. If you are
a girl or a school interested in taking part in the shadowing activity at
UCL/CS for next year, please contact
Dr Licia Capra
| Visit from
Camden
School for Girls |
Ruby Seresin and Morgan Hall, together with their ICT Teacher
Clifford French, visited
Dr Licia Capra and her team of researchers
and PhD students in March 2009.
Morgan and Ruby in front of one of the students' labs |
Sonia talks about her research on pervasive computing |
Valentina illustrates her work on recommender systems |
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Lunch break: Morgan and Ruby play table football against Afra and
Sonia |
Ruby tries out a motion capture system with Andrea |
Andrea sets up some biosensors on Morgan |
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| Visit from
Francis Holland School |
Annabel Shaw visited
Dr Nadia
Bianchi-Berthouze and her team of researchers
and PhD students in March 2009.
Annabel is greeted by Andrea and Maartje |
Annabel attends a class on "Design Experience" taught by Nadia to
MSc students |
Siti illustrates Annabel biosensors technology |
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Lunch break in the CS common room |
Visit to Jeremy Bentham |
Annabel tries the motion capture system with Andrea |
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