Reflection on free software
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Theme: Free Software
Competencies
Mathematical competence in science, technology and engineering
Digital Competence
Subjects and year by Educational System
Spain > Digitisation > 4th ESO > Digitisation of the personal learning environment
Spain > Technology and digitisation > 3rd ESO > Digitisation of the personal learning environment
Enunciation
Observations and context
Alexandra Elbakyan can be linked to other contemporary engineers or computer scientists, for example:
− Meredith Westafer, a senior industrial engineer at Tesla who leads the design and scale model of the company's Gigafactory.
− Tanya Lattner, President and COO of the LLVM Foundation (compilation project).
− Karen Casella, engineering lead at Netflix (in charge of making sure users view content securely).
− Caitlin Kalinowski, head of hardware at Oculus (the division in charge of Facebook's virtual reality headset, the Oculus Rift).
− Aanchal Gupta, Director of Security at Facebook.
− Reshma Shetty, co-founder at Ginkgo Bioworks, a cutting-edge biotech company that designs synthetic DNA.
Description
Research question and reflection. Through a brief text on the Sci-Hub webite, created by Alexandra Elbakyan, it is intended to make students think about free software. Especially, about free access to scientific content.