{"id":1564,"date":"2010-03-24T15:15:08","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T23:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=1564"},"modified":"2010-03-24T23:35:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T07:35:10","slug":"ada-lovelace-day-professor-leah-buechley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2010\/03\/24\/ada-lovelace-day-professor-leah-buechley\/","title":{"rendered":"Ada Lovelace Day: Professor Leah Buechley"},"content":{"rendered":"

While in Boston last week for LibrePlanet<\/a>, I met Professor Leah Buechley<\/a>. <\/p>\n

She doesn’t know I’m going to post this, but I figured that I would just do it, and ask forgiveness later. <\/p>\n

What impresses me the most about Leah is her creative thinking about the issues of women in technology – recontextualizing issues of breadth and acceptance to apply to any minority groups. I learned about Leah because of her work to create Lilypad Arduino<\/a>, a microcontroller designed for wearable DIY projects and textiles. She’s put together a sweet tutorial on using Lilypad<\/a>, and continues to do research related to creative expression through materials not traditionally considered for computing. <\/p>\n

She’s part of the high-low tech group<\/a> at MIT, a group dedicated to integrating high and low technological materials, processes, and cultures.<\/p>\n

A super interesting project she’s working on right now is Living Wall<\/a> – wallpaper designed out of paper and conductive paint that response to it’s environment. The result is beautiful, functional and a geek’s paradise for making an interactive home.<\/p>\n

Some of her research targets the issue of creating new communities by tweaking how the technology is used, focusing and targeting use of technology in a novel way. She did this with lilypad arduino by introducing people who aren’t traditionally microcontroller hackers (sewers, knitters, crafters) to a platform designed for their specific uses. Her ideas and success certainly inspire my free and open source software advocacy.<\/p>\n

I was completely inspired in the very small amount of time I spent with her chatting about tech communities and the problems we’re trying to solve around diversity. I loved her directness and curiosity. I’m looking forward to seeing what beautiful and super geeky projects she’ll be working on next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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