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Black and white headshot of Nina Beguš
Artificial Humanities: The Case of Language in AI
Mar 1, 2023, 4:10 pm to 5:15 pm
Nina Beguš will introduce “artificial humanities,” an approach that integrates the study of humanities into the creation of technologies
Book cover: “The Political Lives of Information Information” by Janaki Srinivasan
The Political Lives of Information: Information and the Production of Development in India
Oct 12, 2022, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How the definition, production, and leveraging of information are shaped by caste, class, and gender, and the implications for development.
Book cover: Democracy's Data: The Hidden Stories in the US Census and How to Read Them
Democracy’s Data: The Hidden Stories in the US Census and How to Read Them
Sep 21, 2022, 4:15 pm to 5:30 pm
Behind the census’s neat grid of numbers is a collage of messy, human stories — you just have to know how to read them.
Bryan Pardo
Learning to Build Natural Audio Production Interfaces
Dec 8, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:00 pm
Bryan Pardo discusses his lab’s work bridging the gap between digital audio software interfaces and the musicians, podcasters, and sound artists who use the tools.
Doris Lee
Designing Automated Assistants for Visual Data Exploration
Nov 5, 2021, 12:10 pm to 2:00 pm
Dr. Doris Lee presents her dissertation research enabling data analysts to identify trends and patterns, generate and verify hypotheses, and detect outliers and anomalies.
Richmond Wong
Values by Design Imaginaries: Exploring Values Work in UX Practice
Apr 7, 2021, 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Richmond Wong presents his dissertation researchon the relationships between design practices and social values.
Paul Niehaus
Cash Transfers at Scale
Jan 29, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Cash transfers to people in extreme poverty have become a policy tool of choice; should policy-makers go all the way to Universal Basic Income?
Leonardo Bursztyn
How New Information Can Change Old Social Norms
Jan 25, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Can widespread misperceptions about others’ beliefs sustain social norms? How do social norms change when new information becomes available?
Yan Chen
Virtual Teams in a Gig Economy
Jan 22, 2021, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How team identity boosts worker engagement in a gig economy.
Rochelle Terman
Backlash: Defiance, Human Rights, and the Politics of Shame
Nov 12, 2020, 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm
New research shows that “naming and shaming” can be counterproductive and even dangerous.
Peter Schwartz
In Conversation with Peter Schwartz, Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning, Salesforce
Nov 4, 2020, 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Peter Schwartz is one of the world’s most experienced, insightful, and entertaining analysts of the digital revolution.
Gracen Brilmyer
“The perverse absent-presence”: Disability and the perception of archival representation
Feb 4, 2020, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Gracen Brilmyer, a 2016 CTSP fellow and MIMS 2016 alum, presents research for their doctoral dissertation.
Paul Niehaus
Identity Verification Standards in Welfare Programs: Experimental Evidence from India
Nov 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 6:00 pm
Requiring biometric authentication excluded and inconenienced legitimate beneficiaries of a social protection program.
Nick Merrill
Mind Reading and Telepathy for Beginners and Intermediates
Oct 16, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
What people think machines can know about the mind, and why their beliefs matter
Pedro Ferreira
From Smart Phones to Smart Students
Oct 2, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Distraction versus learning with mobile devices in the classroom and student success
Michelle R. Carney
Designing a Future with ML + UX
Sep 23, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
As AI and ML shape technology, how do we ensure that products are designed by and for people?
Dr. Andrew L. Brooks
Through the Window: People, Data, Technology, and National Security
Apr 17, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Dr. Andrew L. Brooks is the Chief Data Scientist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Victoria Coleman
Harnessing AI for Global Economic Development
Mar 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
Morgan G. Ames
The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child
Feb 20, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
The One Laptop per Child project failed. So why do the same utopian visions that inspired it still motivate other projects to “disrupt” education and development?
Yifan Sun
Optimization for Machine Learning
Feb 14, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
How good data models facilitate optimization and generalization in machine learning.

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