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60 years ago, 7/30/61, and we’re still going strong! 😍
That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind.
#neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML @cstheory @MIT bit.ly/3rI0jSC
Lenore Blum
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- Dear @pmddomingos, Not sure what your problem is. But I take your insults personally. I’d appreciate your affording me the courtesy of reading my story below, and checking out the included links. This story is not mine alone. Sincerely, @BlumLenore 1/7
- Replying to @BlumLenoreBTW, the Association for Women in Mathematics (@AWMmath) is celebrating its 51st birthday this year. See, awm-math.org, cmu.edu/scs/women-scs/, bit.ly/3JHKVy4, bit.ly/3zvQWJB , bit.ly/3qJkrnn , bit.ly/3zmYzBY 7/7
- Replying to @BlumLenoreAt the time, and for years after, there were no women regular faculty in any of the top math departments, zip at @MIT, @Harvard, @Princeton, @Yale.The odds were clearly not on my side. I and other women like me spent the next 50+ years of our lives working to change all that. 5/7
- Replying to @BlumLenoreThis was not my intended career path, but I am proud of the many substantive programs I have helped create over the years that have finally enabled women who are equally or better qualified than men to start getting reasonable academic and research positions in STEM fields. 6/7
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- Replying to @BlumLenoredid not have a regular faculty position there. (It was not until 1976, 8 years later, when she was 57, that Julia Robinson was offered a professorship at Berkeley after the math department heard of her nomination to @theNASciences.) The proverbial light went on! 4/7
- Replying to @BlumLenoreQualified? (Did I mention I was also raising a 2 year old at the time?) Excited, fearless, and totally naive, I decided to go to @UCBerkeley. Little did I realize that one of my heroes, Julia Robinson (who always signed her papers Berkeley, CA) ... 3/7
- We celebrated our 62nd (a bit early) rocking in our tree house!
60 years ago, 7/30/61, and we’re still going strong! 😍 That’s Warren & Rook McCulloch at the table with us and Manuel’s & my parents standing behind. #neuroscience #neuralnets #AI #ML @cstheory @MIT bit.ly/3rI0jSC - Some data from the AMS on career pipeline for women in mathematics , 2015 (waiting for more recent data)
- YES! In a preliminary paper, "AI Consciousness is Inevitable", we also argue, from a #TheoreticalComputerScience (TCS) perspective, and a minimal formal TCS model, that a number of the major theories of #consciousness are compatible/complementary. See,
- Very pleased that our (Lenore’s and Manuel’s) paper, A theory of consciousness from a theoretical computer science perspective: Insights from the Conscious Turing Machine, was published May 20, 2022 in @PNAS, open access. See, pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…
- Excited (and a bit nervous) to be on stage in NY at the @WorldSciFest (Sat, June1) with #consciousness luminaries @davidchalmers42, @anilkseth, Rufus VanRullen, Manuel Blum, and moderated by conscious string theorist @bgreene. Wish me luck. See:
- Yes Paul (@pliang279), that bubbly is yours! 🥳🎉Congratulations on your very successful dissertation defense! (on the "Foundations of Multisensory Artificial Intelligence" in the @mldcmu ,@SCSatCMU, @CarnegieMellon ).
