What kind of work did you dream to do at high school? Were you thinking back then, that you would work in IT?
At some point I considered teaching art. In general, however, I was really unsure what kind of work I would find later on. Turns out work found me instead! I always loved computers and technology, but never thought I could work in software development myself.
How did you get into the world of technologies? Did you study IT or did life bring you there?
A bit of both. Following a counselor's suggestion, I ended up with computer science as one of my minor subjects. However, this is not to be overrated and I still never thought this would come in handy for me later on. When it came to selecting a topic for my master thesis, I took a leap and asked my professor whether I could write about one of my hobbies, computer games. To my surprise, he accepted! This encouraged me to attempt applying at video game companies right after university. Lucky me, I indeed got hired by a small startup developing an AI middleware for game developers. This was my first job in tech where I also quickly fell into testing and found my passion.
Did your family and friends support your decision to join the tech world?
Yes! There was not a single reason why they shouldn't. However, they were concerned about me joining that small startup which was considered a financially risky move. The company did not make it in the end indeed; still, I learned a lot there.
Please tell us a little more about your work. (something cool for girls and young women considering working in IT). Why do you love it?
I absolutely love that I'm learning every day, it never gets boring. I really enjoy being able to contribute with my personal experience and skillset and at the same time get opportunities to extend these every day. The other most awesome thing is the human side of tech: in the end, people develop software products for people. The teams I've been on worked very closely together which I really enjoy. We are not alone, collaboration is key to success.
So far, our brand FlixBus is best known. The mission of all FlixMobility companies together is to provide green and smart mobility for everyone to experience the world. We offer long distance buses, charter buses, and lately also trains. The complete business is running on tech providing in-house custom-tailored solutions.
What do you like about working in IT?
Working in IT is not everywhere the same. When it comes to my personal experience in agile environments, I enjoyed especially the following: flat hierarchies, encouraged autonomy, freedom to try things out and adapt to the results, focus on continuous improvement, close collaboration with the people, that I know what I did every day as I see a product evolve, that we never stand still so it never gets boring, that I don't have to dress up but can come as I am. I can be myself and bring my whole self.
What are the advantages from your point of view?
To add to the things I already wrote above: job security. So many things are based on tech nowadays. It will only get more not less, so there's a high demand for good tech people.
What is the ratio of men vs women at your team? Would you change it?
Two women and six men. I would love to increase our diversity further. Gender is not binary, and there are a lot more diversity factors we could benefit from.
Have you ever experienced any prejudice towards you?
Over the last years I realized more and more how privileged I truly am. Still, the answer to the question is yes – but lucky me, mostly rather "positive" prejudice. Like the surprise of men when I knew more than they assumed. Sometimes, however, I faced the situation when men considered me to be "non-technical" just by looking at me, without even having talked with me before, let alone worked with me. Or when asking for support, they tried to explain things I already knew in a condescending way and missed the point where the help was actually needed.
Yes, to increase diversity. So this is not only about increasing the number of women, but in general increasing diversity. We all benefit from diverse working environments. Our products benefit from diverse perspectives, enabling us to design better solutions. Together, companies benefit from a diverse workforce. And it's up to them, meaning up to all of us working there, to establish a safe, welcoming, inclusive working environment where diverse people like to stay and can thrive.


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Binjamiena is per bus of trein te bereiken, het ligt aan de spoorlijn die langs de kust loopt, en onder meer Haifa met Tel Aviv verbindt. Het spoorwegstation is belangrijk als eind/beginpunt voor forensentreinen van Tel Aviv en als overstapstation. De meeste sneltreinen stoppen hier dan ook.

De plaats staat bekend om de productie van wijn en honing.

Op elke 1000 mannen woonden hier in 2003 precies 1000 vrouwen. Naar Israëlische begrippen is de plaats bovengemiddeld welvarend; het kreeg een 7 uit 10 op de welvaartsschaal van het Israëlisch Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek.

Zusterplaats van Binjamiena is het stadje Tokaj in Hongarije.

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UMass Amherst Astronomers, Part of International Team, Win 2020 Breakthrough Prize for Black Hole Discoveries
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AMHERST, Mass. – The international team of astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) mission – including eight from the University of Massachusetts Amherst – who earlier this year unveiled the first direct image of a supermassive black hole and its shadow, were awarded the 2020 Breakthrough Prize this month by the Breakthrough Prize Foundation founded by Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan, among others.
The foundation's citation recognizing the EHT mission's accomplishments states, "Using eight sensitive radio telescopes strategically positioned around the world in Antarctica, Chile, Mexico, Hawaii, Arizona and Spain, a global collaboration of scientists at 60 institutions operating in 20 countries and regions captured an image of a black hole for the first time. By synchronizing each telescope using a network of atomic clocks, the team created a virtual telescope as large as the Earth, with a resolving power never before achieved from the surface of our planet."
UMass Amherst's professor Gopal Narayanan, who is principal investigator of the UMass Amherst's EHT mission, professor Peter Schloerb, who is principal investigator of the Large Millimeter Telescope (LMT) in the global EHT array, astronomy researcher Neal Erickson, astronomy graduate students Aleks Popstefanija and Sandra Bustamante, and engineers Vern Fath, Ron Grosslein and Kamal Souccar are members of the UMass team.
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Narayanan says, "It is an incredible honor for the UMass team to join the rest of the EHT community in sharing this prestigious Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics. All the hard work that our team put in on various facets of this experiment has borne fruit. I cannot be prouder of our UMass and our LMT team members who share in this prize."
With its prizes known as the "Oscars of Science," the foundation is now in its eighth year of recognizing major achievements in fundamental physics, mathematics and the life sciences. Each Breakthrough Prize, among the world's most generous science awards, is $3 million. It will be shared equally by the 347 EHT researchers from around the world who co-authored six papers published in April reporting the detection of the black hole in the center of a galaxy in the Virgo cluster known as M87, 55 million light-years from Earth.
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Promotion for Dr Anna Jordanous
By opg | 31 July 2018
Congratulations to Dr Anna Jordanous who has been promoted to Senior Lecturer with effect from 1 August 2018.
Anna has been a lecturer in the School of Computing since 2014 and teaches on the undergraduate programmes at Medway and Master's programmes at the Canterbury campus. Anna is an active member of the Computational Intelligence and Data Science Research Groups and her research focuses on computational creativity: getting computers to demonstrate creative behaviour and model human creativity.
Anna is the School's equality, diversity and inclusivity representative which demonstrated her leadership in her promotion bid.
Anna said: 'One motivation for applying was to be an example for Computing staff who may not have considered promotion for themselves, especially other female colleagues and junior members of staff. I have felt incredibly well supported by people within the School who I have talked to about promotion and hope I can do the same for others.'
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