To help celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Rob spoke with Spanish computer scientist Nuria Oliver about her work to date, such as using big data systems to help unbanked people access credit in developing nations or combating bias in AI systems. Nuria recounted how she first became interested in computing and turned that interest into a career. They also discussed the gender imbalance in computing today and Nuria offered some thought-provoking suggestions as to how these issues might be addressed. Nuria is also a fellow with Association of Computing Machinery, so thanks to the ACM for setting up the interview.

Here are links to projects mentioned during the podcast:

• ELLIS – European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems https://ellis.eu
• Data-Pop Alliance https://datapopalliance.org
• Nuria Oliver’s Personal Website https://www.nuriaoliver.com
• Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) https://www.acm.org

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