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Amy J. Ko, Ph.D.

she/her/hers Professor Associate Dean for Academics The Information School Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering courtesy University of Washington, Seattle - Editor-in-Chief, ACM TOCE - Co-Director, Reciprocal Reviews - Co-Director, CS for All Washington
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I will not be admitting new Ph.D. students in Autumn 2025, due to the unprecedented budget cuts and grant terminations in the United States. It's possible that this will change — this administration seems to shift it's policies every few days — but it is impossible to plan under such chaotic conditions.

These are open source projects I maintain.

I enjoy creating and maintaining software projects that serve my research, teaching, and academic service, and engaging communities and students in evolving them.

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Wordplay is a free platform for creative expression with text and typography; it aspires to radically center accessibility, language, and culture, and to support youth learning in families and classrooms. It is also a playground for many of my ongoing research questions about power, governance, and programming language justice in computing education.
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Bookish.press is a platform for publishing accessible online multi-chapter books for the web. I use it to maintain and publish the textbooks I've written for my teaching.
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Reciprocal Reviews is a platform for enabling peer review volunteering and review activity tracking, to enable more sustainable and equitable peer review in conferences and journals.
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Adminima is a platform for improving organization's onboarding, transparency, and agility by defining work processes and managing requests for change. I designed it because I couldn't find anything that was simple and not designed for very large enterprises. I think it would work well for not-for-profits and small orgs of < 100 people trying to define roles and responsibilities.

CC0 Last updated 6/18/2025. To the extent possible under law, Amy J. Ko has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to the design and implementation of Amy's faculty site. This work is published from the United States. See this site's GitHub repository to view source and provide feedback.