Diario di Letizia Jaccheri. Una ragazza di 15 1/2 che ama la compagnia. Quest’estate ho letto poco. Ho riletto i miei diari che ho scritto dai 13 ai 18 anni. Certe pagine sono scritte con una calligrafia impeccabile, certe sono tutte arruffate che nemmeno io riesco a capire cosa ho scritto. I personaggi sono la mamma, le sorelle, i compagni di scuola, Michela, i professori. Gli argomenti le interrogazioni, gli innamoramenti, le punizioni, gli allenamenti, i voti, ma anche qualche prima idea di liberta’ e indipendenza. Tema di fondo l’allegria e la compagnia.

Ho deciso che per tutta l’estate non commentero’ la politica italiana, ne’ sui social ne’ sotto l’ombrellone. Ascoltero’, leggero’ e osservero’ e basta. La situazione e’ talmente complicata che il mondo non ha bisogno delle mie paroline.

Commentero’ libri, vestiti, film, capelli,  figlioli, mamme, bella gente, sabbia troppo calda, mare increspato,  e qualche pettegolezzo spero non cattivo. All’asilo si era gia’ imparato tutto, l’importante e’ non essere cattivi.

A tutti buona estate. Sto leggendo Innsirkling 2 di Carl Frode Tiller – c’e’ anche in italiano. Accerchiamento. 

Leo con lula, introducing global reading methods to children with ASD

For first time in my life I get a Honorable Mention Note  You could say that I did not need because I am a professor, I am 53 years old, and I should be thinking about how to conclude and leave space to young people. Those who know me, hopefully know that I think about young people a lot, trying to show them possibilities in computing, internationalization, research, and the importance of  friendly cooperation. I think of the young pupils who come to Kodeløypa, the students in EiT, the master students, the PhD, the postdocs.

Sometimes I think about me and not always in the same positive way as I think about the other ones, and this is not good, neither for me, nor for those in my generation, expecially female ones. Who will empower middle age women to become better teachers and researchers and mentors and not least human beings so that they can empower young girls and boys? I have never seen questions like this addressed.

You could say that I do not deserve this prize, as Javier and the Spanish team have done 99% of the work.

I may not deserve this prize, but I needed it, as a recognition for all the times I have fighted to keep people, not least somebody will remeber that I had to defend hard the cv of Javier when we selected the ERCIM winners during the 2017 round, and I was department head and I almost wanted to give up, not to bring water to my mill. Fortunately I did not give up.

Thanks Javier for joing the team, for sharing the Leo con Lula Work, for being such a positive player in our group. And congratulations to both you, me, and the rest of the team.

We work to prepare Customer Driven Project 2018. Without doing any specific actions, it seems that I will have 5 teaching assistants (PhD and master level), all female (and all excellent) and one project coordinator (Kristin Karlsen) also female. I wonder if there are several teaching teams at Gløshaugen and in other International Computer Science departments with seven women in the teaching team?

Since we need several assistants, things can change in the Autumn stay tuned. Lemei Zhang will be the coordinator for the assistants and my deputy when/if I am away. I was employed in 1997 as a step of the newely initiated project Jenter og Data, now Ada. Soon I will become redundant! Hopefully.