Sig January 2020

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Demos for NSERC Video Next Week
by Tovi Grossman 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

Hi All, NSERC is coming in next week to take a video of the research in our group. Please advise me of your availability to be around to do a demo in the lab from 9am-1pm on February 4th. Please plan to be around and be able to do some form of demo. Thanks, Tovi

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Student Demos with Saleema Amershi
by Blaine Lewis 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

Hi Everyone, Saleema Amershi from Microsoft Research is giving a TUX talk in a couple of weeks (February 11), and will be visiting the DGP the following day on Wednesday, February 12. There will be demos from 1pm to 2:45pm and if you give a demo there will also be a lunch at 12pm in room 5256. I've added her talk abstract and bio below. If you're interested in giving a 15 minute demo please sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1coTWWe3xeZ1j0lL8ydtTGJFsBe-jqF7Wgn3… Thanks, Blaine *Toward Responsible AI by Planning to Fail* The potential for AI technologies to enhance human capabilities and improve our lives is of little debate; yet, neither is their potential to cause harm and social disruption. While preventing or minimizing AI biases and harms is justifiably the subject of intense study in academic, industrial and even legal communities, an approach centered on acknowledging and planning for AI-based failures has the potential to shed new light on how to develop and deploy responsible AI-based systems. In this talk, I will discuss the sociotechnical nature of several inherent and unavoidable AI failures and why it is important for the industry to systematically and proactively identify, assess, and mitigate harms caused by such failures in our AI-based products and services. I will then present Microsoft's recently released Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction and how we've been using them at Microsoft to help teams think through and prepare for different types of AI failures. *Bio* Saleema Amershi <http://research.microsoft.com/~samershi> is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research AI and currently chairs Microsoft's Aether Working Group on Human-AI Interaction and Collaboration. Aether is Microsoft’s advisory committee on responsible and ethical AI. Saleema's research focuses on helping people create effective and responsible AI user experiences. Her recent work includes leading Microsoft's effort to develop general Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction <https://aka.ms/aiguidelines>, a unified and validated set of guidelines to establish a foundation for human-AI interaction design. Throughout the years, she has developed tools and methodologies to support practitioners in designing and building AI-based products and services, including general purpose platforms and visualizations for data scientists building predictive models, and application specific techniques for supporting end-users interacting with AI-systems in their everyday lives. Saleema holds a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the Paul G. Allen School at the University of Washington. Prior to UW she completed an MSc in Computer Science and a BSc in Computer Science & Mathematics from the University of British Columbia. http://research.microsoft.com/~samershi

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Fwd: Summer School on Designing Technology for Social Impact
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

FYI Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA Ph: +1 647 220 3482 Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Phoebe Sengers <sengers(a)cs.cornell.edu> Date: Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 4:28 AM Subject: Summer School on Designing Technology for Social Impact To: Please spread the news! Kaiton Williams, Eric Corbett and I are happy to announce we are organizing the second research Summer School for Designing Technology for Social Impact, targeted to PhD and PhD-bound students from ethnically underrepresented minorities. The idea behind the summer school is that voices imagining what technology could be and shaping how it emerges are limited, with underrepresented communities often marginalized in tech discourses. Researchers and designers from these communities therefore have a central role to play in articulating social impact and potential for communities that other technology developers might forget or know nothing about, creating alternative, innovative visions for what technology can be in this world. This summer research workshop is designed to foster a strong cohort of researchers from underrepresented backgrounds working on topics related to the social impact of information technology. Rising seniors and graduate students at any stage from a variety of disciplines are invited to attend, including - but not restricted to - informatics, computer science, science and technology studies, communication, product design, urban and rural studies, and visual arts. Our goal is to build a cohort of up-and-coming researchers, provide experience in this research area, and provide research and career building opportunities. The event will take place June 15-19, 2020 on the Ithaca Campus of Cornell University. The costs of travel, food, lodging, and all events will be covered. Please let students know they can apply directly for our program through our website, https://impact.infosci.cornell.edu/ The application deadline is Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. Please feel free to contact me or cis-diversityprograms(a)cornell.edu with any questions. Thank you! Phoebe, Kaiton, and Eric --- Phoebe Sengers Associate Professor Information Science / Science & Technology Studies Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850 USA phoebe.sengers(a)cornell.edu

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Fwd: Call for Notes ICTD 2020
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 22 Jan '20

22 Jan '20

FYI Best Regards, Ishtiaque Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA Ph: +1 647 220 3482 Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/ My Availability: Google Calendar Link <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ishtiaque.uoft%40gmail.com&c…> ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Michaelanne Dye <mmtd(a)umich.edu> Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:28 PM Subject: Call for Notes ICTD 2020 To: Indrani Medhi Thies <indranim(a)microsoft.com> ----------------- *Call for Participation - ICTD 2020 Notes* Hello! I would like to invite you to submit a Note to The International Conference on Information Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD) 2020. With a 4-page limit, Notes are intended to introduce work-in-progress and also serve as an excellent venue to submit revised papers that may not be ready for full-paper status. *Notes are due on March 6, 2020*, and the conference will be held on June 17-20, 2020, in Gayaquil, Ecuador. For more information visit: https://ictd2020.org/call-for-notes/. If you have any questions, feel free to email the Notes chairs: ictd2020notes(a)gmail.com. Thank you! Michaelanne and Eduardo *(Spanish Version Below)* Hola, Quisiera invitarte a enviar una Nota a la Conferencia Internacional sobre Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación para el Desarrollo (ICTD) 2020. Con un tamaño máximo de cuatro páginas, las Notas buscan presentar trabajos en progreso, y sirven además como una excelente manera de enviar ponencias que no estén aún listas para ser consideradas como artículos terminados. *Las Notas deben ser enviadas a más tardar el 6 de marzo de 2020*, y la Conferencia tendrá lugar entre el 17 y el 20 de junio de 2020, en Guayaquil, Ecuador. Para más información, visiten https://ictd2020.org/call-for-notes/. Si tienen más preguntas, no duden en escribir a los responsables de las Notas, ictd2020notes(a)gmail.com. ¡Gracias! Michaelanne y Eduardo -- *Michaelanne Dye* Assistant Professor/Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow University of Michigan School of Information *e: *mmtd(a)umich.edu *w:* michaelannedye.com *t:* @michaelannedye <http://twitter.com/michaelannedye>

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Happy New Year!
by Tovi Grossman 04 Jan '20

04 Jan '20

Hi All, Hope you are having a great break and had a Happy New Year! I'm going to have a lot of catching up to do next week, so I am cancelling the 1-1 meetings on Tuesday. We will reconvene on Thursday as a group. Thanks, Tovi

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