Archives - Jiwon Chang
LGBTQ
The specter of deadnames
UR is a mostly trans-friendly campus. And yet, there's a curious blindspot: repeated usage of deadnames where a preferred name is sufficient.
Op-Eds
A more engaging way to teach science
We should teach students how wrong famous historical scientists were. It would encourage students to be wrong, to experiment.
ai
Disaster prevention lessons from AI
Leading AI experts say there’s a 5% chance that artificial general intelligence, or AGI, will cause a human extinction-level disaster.
computer science
Computer science education needs a reboot
What we need is the best of both worlds: a university CS curriculum that incorporates the tactics of coding boot camps.
