Jean Yang
Assistant Professor (on leave)
Computer Science Department
Carnegie Mellon University
jyang2 [at] cs [dot] cmu [dot] edu
GHC 7113
Curriculum Vitae
Administrative Assistant
Erin Davis, eedavis [at] andrew [dot] cmu [dot] edu
Selected Writing
In addition to what I have linked here, I also write on my personal blog, Medium, and Quora
In addition to my writing, I also have a couple of satirical photo blogs. My brogramming project examines the "brogrammer" trope in tech culture and also society's
image of the programmer.
My Strong Reject meme satirizes the human aspects of the
scientific reviewing process. There is also Haskell Ryan
Gosling, an exercise in discovering how much Haskell can be taught
through Ryan Gosling (in collaboration with Travis Hance).
Programming and Software Culture
"Want to Keep Personal Information Safe Online? Fix the Software,"
TIME, April 3, 2018. [
article]
"James Comey's Twitter Security Problem Is Your Problem, Too,"
MIT Technology Review, April 27, 2017. [
article]
"Build privacy right into software code,"
The Conversation, February 20, 2017. [
article]
"Research for Practice: Web Security and Mobile Web Computing,"
ACM Queue, October 4, 2016. [
article]
"Making It Easy to Make Apps,"
MIT Technology Review, June 2016. [
article]
"The robot apocalypse is here: and it's not what we expected,"
ACM SIGCAS Computers and Society, March 2016. [
ACM article]
"The Real Software Security Problem is Us,"
MIT Technology
Review, June 22, 2015. [
article]
"C is Manly, Python is for 'n00bs': How False Stereotypes Turn Into
Technical 'Truths,'"
Model View Culture, January 20, 2014, with Ari
Rabkin.
[
article]
"The Best Languages for Getting Into Functional Programming,"
Forbes via
Quora, August 8, 2014. [
Forbes]
Gender and Diversity
"What do you think of Scott Aaronson's comment #171 and the subsequent posts?,"
Quora, January 12, 2015. [
Quora question]
"MIT Computer Scientists Demonstrate the Hard Way that Gender Still
Matters,"
Wired, December 19, 2014, with Elena Glassman and
Neha Narula as a follow-up to our Reddit Ask Me Anything session. [
article]
"Init. Women, Hip-Hop, and Self-Teaching: The New Diversity in Computing," as feature editor for
ACM XRDS's "Diversity
in Computer Science" issue, Summer 2014. [
Init |
issue]
"First Person / The power of girls,"
Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, May 31, 2014. [
article]
"How Can A Female Engineer Remain Positive Despite What Seem To Be Discriminatory Hiring Practices?,"
Forbes via
Quora, April 16, 2014. [
Forbes]