This review is from Elona Shatri, a fourth-year PhD student at QMUL and a part of the Centre for Digital Music. “The Algorithmic Leader: How to Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter Than You” by Mike Walsh provides an insightful
Wiki-editing event for International Women’s Day
On International Women’s Day, our team members Elona Shatri and Richard Clegg organised a Wikipedia editing event to create or enhance articles about inspiring women, particularly those in the STEM fields. Although Wikipedia is a widely used source of information,
LGBT+ history month at QMUL
February is traditionally designated to celebrate the LGBT+ History Month, and as part of this initiative, many colleagues at EECS and across the University paid tribute and celebrated the LGBT+ community and their allies. You can read about the EE
Perspectives from a prospective CS student
My name is Ines, I am 17 and currently in Year 13. I study politics, computer science, and mathematics, and my favourite varies each week. In politics, I enjoy studying and learning about political ideas and concepts, especially feminism! I
Book review: Design Justice (Sasha Costanza-Chock) reviewed by Ashley Laurent Noel-Hirst
This review is from Ashley Laurent Noel-Hirst a first year PhD student at QMUL, part of Centre for Digital Music. If you have ever wondered why facial recognition software routinely fails black women; ’security’ AI systems increase risk of violence to intersectionally
Thoughts on holocaust memorial day by Prof Mark Sandler
When I was a child (I was born just 10 years after World War 2 ended) there was no word we used for the genocides that Nazi Germany committed. To a large extent, these things weren’t spoken of. My best
Interview — Director of Wellbeing Mahesha Samaratunga
What does a director of wellbeing do? Initially I didn’t know what I was going to do. It sounded exciting to be known as the director of wellbeing but I had not figured out what the Director of wellbeing can
EDI Book Recommendations from our staff and students
This is a new initiative our team thought would help boost the reading of books with an EDI angle. We plan to bring new recommendations monthly to this blog, so please feel free to send your recommendations and a paragraph
Grace Hopper Celebration Open Source day report
On September 16th, Naomi Arnold from the Networks Group in EECS attended the Grace Hopper Celebration’s Open Source Day. This is a virtual all-day hackathon celebrating women who work in open source software. Open source software still has huge under
Doing a PhD while raising a family | EECS
John Xavier Riley Tell us about your work at QMUL? I’m a 3rd year PhD student in the Artificial Intelligence and Music (AIM) program at the EECS school. My research centres around automatic music transcription using a variety of methods