Bits and Behavior

Bits and Behavior

Amy J. Ko

How is fascism going for you? Here’s how it’s going for me.

A catalog of impacts thus far from this administration’s horrors.

May 12

Fuzzy speckles of red, black, and yellow, with a circular cutout in the center, and stick figure Amy pushing against its edits, with an angry, resistant face.

May 12

Amy J. Ko

CHI 2025: Frayed edges

May 1

A large canvas showing Japanese calligraphy with the acronym CHI 2025.

May 1

Stefania

Supercharge Your Scratch Projects: Introducing Cognimates Copilot, an AI Teammate for Kids!

This is a guest post from from Stefania Druga, sharing work based on her dissertation at UW. It explores ways of scaffolding youth’s…

Apr 30

Supercharge Your Scratch Projects: Introducing Cognimates Copilot, an AI Teammate for Kids!

Apr 30

Amy J. Ko

We are not bits: AI and dehumanization

Amidst federal chaos, genocidal attacks on trans civil rights, existential attacks on universities and research, and looming economic…

Mar 10

A muted, fuzzy photo above the clouds, with the bright sun in the corner, possibly from an airplane window.

Mar 10

Amy J. Ko

SIGCSE 2025: Rumination, resistance

Mar 1

A dark purple stage, a slide that says SIGCSE, and the organizing committee kicking things off.

Mar 1

Amy J. Ko

Fragmentation in academic leadership

Academia is under attack: is it ready?

Dec 22, 2024

$On the top half, green flowing river water, and on the bottom, fractured rock.$

$On the top half, green flowing river water, and on the bottom, fractured rock.$

Dec 22, 2024

Amy J. Ko

I am an Associate Dean for Academics

Sep 16, 2024

A tweet by Associate Deans: “My favorite time of the year! Time to cancel under-enrolled classes and reassign faculty to classes they aren’t qualified to teach!”

Sep 16, 2024

Amy J. Ko

Trans Studies 2024 trip report

Finding community in Evan’s town

Sep 7, 2024

A bright pink slide “The 2nd International Trans Studies Conference”

Sep 7, 2024

Amy J. Ko

ICER 2024 trip report

Winter in Melbourne

Aug 15, 2024

A tesselation of green triangles and wooden walls with ceiling mounted lights.

Aug 15, 2024

Amy J. Ko

Pride and shame in hobbyist programming

Is programming always work?

Aug 9, 2024

Amy in a white Nike “just do it” t-shirt in front of a boxy CRT and PC with keyboard, speakers, and floppy disks. A small desk lamp lights a corner of a wooden desk.

Aug 9, 2024

Bits and Behavior

This is the blog for Amy J. Ko, Ph.D. at the University of Washington and her advisees. Here we reflect on our individual and collective struggle to understand computing and harness it for justice. See our work at https://faculty.washington.edu/ajko

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Amy J. Ko

Professor, University of Washington iSchool (she/her). Code, learning, design, justice. Trans, queer, parent, and lover of learning.

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