Short Bio

Felienne Hermans is a professor of Computer Science Education at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. She also works as a high-school CS teacher one day a week at Open Schoolgemeenschap Bijlmer.

Felienne is the creator of the Hedy programming language, a gradual and multi-lingual programming language designed for teaching and author of the book “The Programmer’s Brain” a book that helps programmers understand how their brain works and how to use it more effectively. In 2021, Felienne was awarded the Dutch Prize for ICT research.

She writes for Dutch newspaper Volkskrant every month and writes a weekly newsletter on computer science, AI and many other things.

Keynote Title

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Abstract

Some progress has been made over the last decades to increase women’s participation in science, but in how far has scientific practice changed to accommodate women’s lives, practices, and interests? Has there, in other words, been shifts in the epistemological core of science? In this talk Felienne Hermans, professor of Computer Science Education, will present a history of feminist epistemology and examine the changes in science through that lens.