FYI, there's another DLS talk today that is HCI related. Students should make every effort to attend this if you're in town (and not just this talk, but every DLS talk and faculty job talks).

This is a really interesting topic that Bill will be talking about.

-khai

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Khai N. Truong khai@cs.toronto.edu Date: Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 9:12 AM Subject: Reminder: DLS speaker TODAY -- Dr. Bill Tomlinson in GB 120 To: dcs-all@cs.toronto.edu

Dear all,

The next DLS talk for this year will take place today in GB 120. Our guest is Dr. Bill Tomlinson. Please find information about the talk below.

Please note that we will start on time (at 11AM) in order to clear from the room for a class that takes place there at noon. Also please note that the room holds about 108 people. You are encouraged to come early and try to use the inner seats to create space for the attendees that come later to be able to sit.

Thanks, -khai

------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------- Event date: Thursday, November 17, 2016, at 11:00 AM Location: GB 120

Speaker: Dr. Bill Tomlinson Professor of Informatics University of California, Irvine

Title: Computing, Sustainability, and Global Disruption

Abstract: Humanity is currently facing profound global challenges such as climatic disruption, biodiversity loss, air pollution and ocean acidification. These challenges threaten to disrupt the lives of billions of people, and call into question our species’ ability to live sustainably. Fortunately, modern information systems offers a powerful means of tackling complex problems such as those involved in this suite of issues. In this talk, Professor Tomlinson will present his recent work in bringing computational tools to bear on problems of sustainability and disruption. In particular, he will describe a current research effort that seeks to enable a new approach to sustainable food security.

Biography: Bill Tomlinson is a Professor of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, and a researcher in the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology. He research areas include ICT for sustainability, computing withinlimits, human-computer interaction, and computer-supported learning. His book Greening through IT (MIT Press, 2010) examines the ways in which information technology can help people think and act on the broad scales of time, space, and complexity necessary for us to address the world's current environmental issues. In addition, he has authored dozens of papers across a range of journals and conferences in computing, the learning sciences, and the law. His work has been reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the LA Times, Wired.com, Scientific American Frontiers, CNN, and the BBC. In 2007, he received an NSF CAREER award and in 2008 he was selected as a Sloan Research Fellow. He holds an A.B. in Biology from Harvard College, an M.F.A. in Experimental Animation from CalArts, and S.M. and Ph.D. degrees from the MIT Media Lab.