Women made up roughly 30% of computer programmers well into the 1970s. Today, this number is lower. The 1980s—a time when women enrollment rates in computer science programs were at its lowest—represent a crucial period for the rise of computing gaming. Across the decade, images of…

Excited to present most recent work from the FESTEM research project together with Nina Boulus-Rødje for the DUB community: Bjørn, P. and N. Boulus-Rødje (2018). “Intrastructural inaccessibility: Tech Entrepreneurs in Occupied Palestine.” ACM Transaction on Computer-human Interaction (TOCHI) 25(5): 31. In my DUB presentation, I will…

Since 2017, there have been an increase in the female student population at DIKU, and we are thrilled that Dansk Industry mention femtech.dk in their analysis.

The second Femtech.dk workshop took place in the Spring 2018, and we had 26 female high school students participating. For the occasion, we (Maria Melendez-Blanco, Christoffer Belhage, and me) had developed CryptoSphere, which is an IoT device allowing participants to encrypt messages sent on Facebook using…

Based upon our work in femtech.dk – I was interviewed to talk about inclusion in computer science. You can also read my opinion piece published in Aktuel Naturvidenskab – both are in Danish.

Thanks to the Fulbright scholar program, I will be spending one year at University of Washington, in the Human Centred Design and Engineering department from Aug 2018-Aug 2019. My research focus is Makerspace Methodologies – and creating new narratives for computer science continuing the work of femtech.dk.…

FemTech.dk is part of Copenhagen Makers GRACE is an interactive Origami installation and App, created by FemTech.dk, which celebrate the 70th anniversary since the first bug was found in a computer by famous female computer scientist Grace Murray Hopper. GRACE combines history with making and technology as a…

Open Design at the Intersection of Making and Manufacturing – upcoming workshop in Denver, USA – May 2017 http://openmakingworkshop.org

Excited that we had the first workshop in the FemTech.dk research project before the Easter vacation – Thursday April 20th we visited Ørestads Gymnasium and Friday April 21st we visited Albertslund Gymnasium (Next). Read more about FemTech.dk at DIKU FemTech.dk

Looking forward to visiting CMU – the institute for Software Research to talk about the Dark Side of Global Agile – organised and invited by Jim Herbsleb http://www.cs.cmu.edu/calendar/fri-2017-05-12-1000/institute-software-research-presentation