AI Futures: Discussion with Miguel Escobar Varela
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, the School of Information, and the Department of Scandinavian.
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Speaker
Miguel Escobar Varela
Miguel Escobar Varela is associate professor at the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies and deputy director of the Centre for Computational Social Science and Humanities at the National University of Singapore. In his research, he studies the changing landscape of Southeast Asian cultural heritage by combining fieldwork with computational methods (such as natural language processing, computer vision and network analysis). He is the author of Theatre as Data (University of Michigan Press, 2021). His papers, datasets and research software are available at https://miguelescobar.com.
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