Bookshelf

New this year from iSchool faculty:

“Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary Education” (self-published), co-authored by Professor Amy J . Ko, is one of the first books to approach computer science education critically, teaching foundational ideas in computer science through a social justice lens, and then offering several teaching methods for teaching these foundations ways that raise students’ critical consciousness about computing in their lives and society more broadly . You can access the book for free at criticallyconsciouscomputing .org .

“A Guide to Writing Data Statements for Natural Language Processing” (Tech Policy Lab), co-authored by Professor Batya Friedman, contains information about data statements for language datasets used in natural language processing systems . The schema elements have been honed to the particular characteristics of language datasets, including speech context, speaker demographic, and annotator demographic . This guide for writing data statements, available at no cost at techpolicylab .uw .edu, provides the rationale, definitions, and suggestions for each of the elements as well as general best practices .

“Reflections on Risk VI” (Tautegoy Press), authored by Associate Teaching Professor Annie Searle, contains 27 research notes focused on current operational risk gaps and technology issues in generally well-known corporations . The research notes are both concise and diagnostic, covering topic areas such as global regulation, privacy, operational risk, cybersecurity and information ethics and policy .

“Keywords for Children’s Literature” (NYU Press), co-authored by Beverly Cleary Professor Michelle H . Martin, presents original essays on essential terms and concepts in the field . Covering ideas from “Aesthetics” to “Voice,” an impressive multidisciplinary cast of scholars explores and expands on the vocabulary central to the study of children’s literature . The second edition of this Keywords volume goes beyond disciplinary and national boundaries . Across 59 print essays and 19 online essays, it includes contributors from 12 countries and an international advisory board from more than a dozen more .

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“Ríos que Convergen: Sistematización de Experiencias del Diplomado ‘Liderazgo, Comunicación y Cambio Climático,’ Vaupés, Colombia” (self-published), co-authored by Associate Professor Ricardo Gomez, presents some of the methodological contributions of the Leadership, Communication, and Climate Change Diploma in two Indigenous communities in the Querarí “Viral Cultures: Activist Archives at the End of AIDS” (University of Minnesota Press), written by Assistant Professor Marika Cifor, is the first book to critically examine the archives that have helped preserve and create the legacy of AIDS activism . Positioning vital nostalgia as both a critical faculty and a generative practice, the book explores the act of saving this activist past and reanimating it in the digital age .

River and in the Yapú area, Department of Vaupés, in the Colombian Amazon . The activities of the course were facilitated by an interdisciplinary team from Fundación Colombia Multicolor .

“Resilience: Latinx Stories and Immigration Enforcement in Washington State” (self-published), authored by Associate Professor Ricardo Gomez, features interviews with Latinx students and alumni from Eastern Washington and contrasts their stories with an analysis of immigration enforcement and collaboration between ICE and local police and sheriff’s offices . Gomez wrote the book in collaboration with UW Center for Human Rights .

“Smart Cities and Smart Governance: Towards the 22nd Century Sustainable City” (Springer), co-edited by Professor Hans Jochen Scholl, provides a foundation for global efforts to envision and prepare for the next-generation city by advancing understanding of the nature of and need for novel policies, new administrative practices, and enabling technologies required to advance urban governance, governments and infrastructure .

worked at the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center to be closer to his wife, Debbie, who was attending Harvard Medical School.

After two years, Teodorescu left to pursue his doctoral studies at Harvard Business School. He was interested in business strategy, curious about such things as why companies invest in research, move a headquarters or open a subsidiary.

This was more than a theoretical interest. He and his wife launched SurgiBox together after the Haiti earthquake in 2010, which killed hundreds of thousands and forced surgeons to operate outdoors, greatly increasing chances for infections.

The startup has developed an inflatable, battery-powered “operating room in a backpack” that can be opened and draped like a sleeping bag over a patient, creating a sterile surgical environment. They have partnered with governmental and private entities around the world to help improve access to safe surgery in disasters.

At SurgiBox and beyond, Teodorescu has an interest in patents, having been awarded four with many others pending. Given his passion for patents, his dissertation chair, Tarun Khanna, connected him with the U.S. Patent Office’s chief economist, with whose group Teodorescu did research on how to encourage entrepreneurism, bolster green technology and level the playing field in patent granting.

After he obtained his doctorate from Harvard Business School in 2018, Teodorescu was hired to teach in Boston College’s Information Systems Department. He also collaborated with Frey to develop an MIT open course on machine learning fairness.

His research on improving the gender disparity in patenting was the runner-up for Academy of Management Annual Meeting Technology and Innovation Management’s (TIM) Best Paper, and his paper on improving outcomes for lower resource inventors won the TIM Best Paper at the same conference. He wrote both with coauthors from patent office, the chief economist and one of his colleagues, a supervisory patent examiner, and a professor in Paris.

Teodorescu is thrilled to be moving back to Washington state, and especially to meet iSchool faculty and students.

“They have a very collaborative environment,” Teodorescu said. “I thought it was fascinating that you can have computer scientists, human-computer-interaction philosophers and management people, all under the same umbrella of the school, coexisting happily and doing impactful research together.”

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her vision of making people analytics a more globally recognized approach to strategic business. This conversation initiated a partnership between the two in which Whiteman taught an online class in people analytics for the professor at UFM.

The experience of teaching that class led Whiteman to pitch to Fulbright the idea of educating Guatemalan leaders in people analytics so they will adopt the concept in their country’s business practices.

“In a region where the concepts of people analytics have yet to be implemented, that’s where introducing these new approaches to thinking hold transformative value,” said Whiteman. “I want to teach from the mindset that people data is not like other data. We need to think about the social impacts and effects of quantifying humans.”

The Fulbright Scholar Award is given to scholars who will teach, conduct research or carry out professional projects in a country outside the United States. Whiteman traveled to Guatemala in June and July of this year to run the pilot program and will return to finish setting up the program in January and February 2023.

“I definitely see this as something that’s growing,” Whiteman said. “The goal is that this program would become a standard part of the UFM curriculum, something that they can sustain and lead on their own.” communities and scholars can decide how their data is controlled.

In addition to her research work, Littletree will be teaching Indigenous Systems of Knowledge and Indigenous Ways of Knowing in the Digital World.

Miranda Belarde-Lewis, an assistant professor of North American Indigenous Knowledge at the iSchool, said Littletree’s teaching skills are among her greatest strengths.

“She comes in with a lot of humility,” Belarde-Lewis said. “She doesn’t assume that folks know a lot. And she doesn’t do that in a patronizing way. And she has a very empathetic teaching philosophy.”

Belarde-Lewis has taught students who had also taken Littletree’s class, and saw how effective and inspiring her teaching was.

“Students would just come in with hearts in their eyes and fires in their souls after being in her classes,” Belarde-Lewis said. “Her ability to inspire our MLIS students was something I got to see.”

The two have co-authored articles, which Belarde-Lewis said was a great experience, in part because Littletree is such an effective communicator.

“As a collaborator, as a professor, as a researcher and as a fellow faculty, she is such an asset to the iSchool,” Belarde-Lewis said. “She would be an asset to any school and we’re so lucky.”

Littletree won’t be teaching again until March. Until then, she’ll be working on her research and other projects and connecting with students.

“Being tenure-track gives me an opportunity to dive into some of these topics and hopefully bring students along with me,” she said. “I’ll have the capacity to recruit Ph.D. students or more MLIS students to work on these projects with me. I would like to see a lot more of that representation in our students. … Indigenous librarianship is a growing area and there aren’t many of us in academia at this level focusing on it. I’m really excited to have this platform and this opportunity to focus on some of these big issues that really need addressing.”