Computer Vision News Computer Vision News 22 Women in Computer Vision they’re happy. There’s a lot of pressure in the academic world, both when you’re a student but also when you’re a researcher. If there’s too much pressure and you feel too pressured, you can’t concentrate on doing good science. Then you start thinking: how many papers will I write? How many will cite my papers? Will I get my next job? Or if you’re a student, you think: how do I get the best grade on the next exam? If your mind is occupied with those things, you won’t do good science. You won’t learn, or you won’t write good papers. So, somehow making sure that people feel safe and happy enough that they can concentrate. I am sure that you quite often crack some jokes in class. I don’t think I’m very good at telling jokes – I mostly make fun of myself. I can tell you one silly thing that I did, but it’s not a joke. I have a daughter who’s nine years old, and I bike to work, and when I bike to work, I wear sports clothes because it’s a half-hour bike ride, and I get sweaty. When I go to work, I change into some other clothes. In the winter, at some point, I had brought with me a dress and some tights to wear under the dress… only the tights belonged to my daughter. They were very short and small. I couldn’t wear them. I even tried to put them on – it didn’t work! [laughs] When I came to class to teach, I was wearing these blue sports tights under my dress, and I had to explain to the whole class why I was looking like that. What did the class say? They laughed at me, of course. What did your daughter say? I think she laughed at me as well. [Aasa laughs] That’s the sort of joking I do. I don’t have good jokes. Why did you choose Finland and Denmark? “Usually, they’re fine when you walk in and say, I don’t know what the thing I’m talking about is called, but I would describe it like this!” “My first week at the Technical University of Denmark -- they hired me as full professor when I was 8 months pregnant, and I had 9 days at work before going on maternity leave!”
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