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Hello TUX!
A reminder that tomorrow we have a Member Presentation by Dr. Fraser
Anderson.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Ali, Daniel, and Tovi
TUX Member Presentation: Dr. Fraser Anderson
*December 4, 2018. DGP Lab, Department of Computer Science at U of T @
40 St. George Street Room 5166*
Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm.
*Designing Intelligent Objects
*
Intelligent objects are all around us — responsive buildings, connected
toys, smart speakers. Designing these objects remains difficult, with
significant effort required from domain experts in mechanical,
electrical, and software engineering to get initial prototypes up and
running. This often leaves little time to consider the user experience,
which suffers as a result of this overhead.
This talk covers several approaches which aim to reduce the investment
needed to design, create and test smart objects and spaces. These
approaches simplify tasks of programming, 3D modelling and fabrication
to decrease the time and effort between ideation and testing. The work
spans broad range of domains – including the design of system
behaviours, programming building controls, and creating circuits. This
research builds on a wide range of enabling technology, from virtual
reality to generative design and covers a wide range of application
areas. As the research moves towards the architectural-scale, this
presentation will cover a large-scale living research lab which is being
developed at Autodesk in Toronto to explore the future of smart
construction.
*Bio*
Fraser Anderson is a Principal Research Scientist within the User
Interface group at Autodesk Research. At Autodesk, he examines how new
technology can support designers in developing, prototyping and building
smart objects and structures. This research encompasses new interaction
techniques, fabrication systems, and applying generative design
technology to circuitry. He is an active member of the academic Human
Computer Interaction community, serving on the program committee of
ACM’s CHI, UIST and MobileHCI conferences, as well as actively
publishing in these venues.
Prior to joining Autodesk, Fraser completed his PhD and Master’s in
Computing Science at the University of Alberta under Walter Bischof and
Pierre Boulanger where his research examined cognitive and motor
learning – he continues to pursue this line of research as it relates to
using technology to guide and teach people to perform real-world tasks
within the areas of construction and manufacturing.
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*OUR SPONSORS:*
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*TUX is made possible by the support of our sponsors, Steven Sanders,
Autodesk, *
*University of Toronto Department of Computer Science, and MaRS*.
*/About MaRS:/*/MaRS is the one of the world’s largest urban innovation
hubs—a place for collaboration, creativity and entrepreneurship. Located
in the heart of Toronto’s research district, MaRS provides the space,
training, talent and networks required to commercialize important
discoveries and launch and grow Canadian startups./
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Dear all,
We are looking for one volunteer for our meeting on February 5. If you want
to present your work or conduct any activity, please let us know.
I am giving a link below for a spreadsheet that has our meeting dates this
Winter. It would be great if you indicate the time you want to volunteer,
that would be great. Ideally, we will have two sessions in a meeting;
however, we could adjust the slots depending on the time required for
volunteers.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1agRIKbrzMEd-YnpvDHruuEaFjGd48HoTGhT…
Thanks,
Rifat
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Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat
Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/
Hi everyone,
Below is the line up of development seminars for March and April.
Best,
Cansu
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From: phd-ischool-l <PHD-ISCHOOL-L(a)LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA> on behalf of Patrick Keilty <p.keilty(a)UTORONTO.CA>
Sent: January 29, 2019 1:24 PM
To: PHD-ISCHOOL-L(a)LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
Subject: Fwd: Development Seminar Events March & April, 2019
Events happening in Antgropology relevant to us.
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From: Aakash Solanki <aakash.solanki(a)mail.utoronto.ca<mailto:aakash.solanki@mail.utoronto.ca>>
Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 2:23 PM
Subject: Development Seminar Events March & April, 2019
To: technoscienceunit-internal(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:technoscienceunit-internal@googlegroups.com> <technoscienceunit-internal(a)googlegroups.com<mailto:technoscienceunit-internal@googlegroups.com>>
I am still working on promotional material, but do take note of the line up this term.
March 1 (Public Health building), Crystal Biruk, Oberlin, Anthropologist, Data/Global Health/Malawi
-Her book came out in 2018, Cooking Data.
March 22 (Mcluhan) , Lily Irani, UCSD, Information Scientist, Design/ Citizenship/India
-Her book will be out in March.
March 29 (Anthro building), Michael Degani, Hopkins, Anthropologist, Infrastructure/Electricity/Dar es Salam
April 5 (Anthro building), Nikhil Menon, Notre Dame, Historian, Planning/Statistics/India
Sincerely,
Aakash
—
Aakash Solanki
PhD Student, Collaborative Program in Anthropology and South Asian Studies
Co-ordinator, Development Seminar
<https://utdevsem.wordpress.com>University of Toronto
After Cansus's presentation last week, I think many of you have grown
interest in AI and Fairness. Here is a lecture from an MIT PhD student
coming up on Friday morning that may help you get more insight into this.
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto, ON, CA
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
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From: Marzyeh Ghassemi <marzyeh(a)cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 10:40 AM
Subject: ML/Fairness/Health Talk of Interest
To: <newprofs(a)cs.toronto.edu>
Cc: Anna Goldenberg <anna.goldenberg(a)vectorinstitute.ai>, Frank Rudzicz <
frank(a)vectorinstitute.ai>, Quaid Morris <quaid(a)vectorinstitute.ai>, Bo Wang
<bowang(a)vectorinstitute.ai>
Hi all!
I wanted to advertise a guest lecture for my Thursday class to new faculty!
This Thursday (Jan 31, 2019), Irene Chen will give a guest lecture in
CSC2541 <https://cs2541-ml4h2019.github.io> on Machine Learning with
Fairness, Ethics, and Healthcare. The lecture will be at 10 AM - 11 AM in
room MS 4279, followed by student talks on recent work in machine learning
on fairness and health. Her paper Why is My Classifier Discriminatory?
<https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.12002> was accepted to NeurIPS 2018 in Montreal
as a Spotlight Presentation.
Irene Chen <http://irenechen.net/> is a Ph.D. candidate at MIT CSAIL
<https://www.csail.mit.edu/>, advised by Professor David Sontag
<http://people.csail.mit.edu/dsontag/> in the Clinical Machine Learning
<http://clinicalml.org/> group. Her research focuses on machine learning
and its applications to solving important real-world problems including
*healthcare* and *fairness*. Prior to MIT, Irene worked at Dropbox
<http://irenechen.net/www.dropbox.com> as Data Scientist, Chief of Staff,
and Machine Learning Engineer. She graduated from Harvard
<https://www.seas.harvard.edu/> with a joint AB/SM in Applied Math and
Computational Engineering where she researched with Michael Luca
<http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=602417> and Ben Edelman
<http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=417579>.
--
Thanks,
Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi, MIT CSAIL
University of Toronto, Faculty of Computer Science and Medicine
Canadian CIFAR AI Chair, Vector Institute
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto, ON, CA
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
Folks,
I just found this - http://www.rcjp.ca/
I think this can be interesting to many of you whose work is related to
newcomers.
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto, ON, CA
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/
Dear all,
Welcome to a new episode of our bi-weekly HCI meeting this winter! The
first meeting is on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, at 12:30 pm at DGP seminar
room. Haijun Xia will lead a brainstorming session for a project that
automatically creates a slide-show style video for travel audio podcasts.
In particular, he would like to brainstorm ideas of transferring
information in textual representation to visual representation. In the
second session, Jiannan Li would like to have a short brainstorming session
on the scenarios for the drone-based video communication project.
Please come join us and take part in the activities. Lunch will be provided.
Regards,
Rifat
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Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat
Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto.
http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/
This sounds like an interesting talk.
Regards,
Ishtiaque
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From: Yashar Ganjali <yganjali(a)cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, Jan 22, 2019, 10:45 AM
Subject: Colloquium by UPenn prof. Stephanie Dick -- Feb. 6th, 2-4pm, VC 323
To: <dcsall(a)cs.toronto.edu>
Hi everyone,
Prof. Stephanie Dic from UPenn is giving a talk titled "Making Up Minds:
Computing and Proof in the Postwar United States”.
Time: Feb. 6th, 2-4pm
Location: VC 323
The talk is co-sponsored by DCS and the history department.
You can find more information about this talk here:
http://hps.utoronto.ca/hps-event/colloquium-stephanie-dick/
Thank you.
--Yashar
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Associate Professor and Associate Chair, Research
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto
Phone: 416-978-2952
Web: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~yganjali/
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Hi dgp hci students,
There are some interesting papers every year submitted to alt.chi. I encourage you to have a look and add a comment if you feel inspired for the ones you read.
See below one such paper whose topic should be of your interest.
- fanny
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: Lonni Besançon <lonni.besancon(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: The Continued Prevalence of Dichotomous Inferences at CHI
> Date: 14 January 2019 at 18:44:16 GMT-5
> To: fanny(a)cs.toronto.edu
>
> Hey there,
>
> Happy new year!
>
> Pierre and I just wrote an alt.chi article entitled The Continued Prevalence of Dichotomous Inferences at CHI <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__drive.google.com_open-…>, and we would like to know whether you would be willing to contribute an open (non-anonymous) review. Your review can be very short.
>
> As you may know, alt.chi <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__chi2019.acm.org_author…> has an invitation-to-review process. It is not unusual from authors to invite people they know to review their article, and it is not against reviewing rules. We think our submission can be of interest to you and we would very much appreciate if you could share your thoughts.
>
> Instructions on how to submit a review are on the alt.chi webpage <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__chi2019.acm.org_author…>. Should you need further instruction on how to use the reviewing system, we have created this list of instructions available here <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D0wJ4LQuoiSoRUS9gxkjA5BfRrHpLynjbpxe_FU…>
> Your review can be short and informal. Alt.chi reviews are more discussion-oriented than acceptance/rejection-oriented (though they will help chairs decide on acceptance). You don't need to be exhaustive and you can decide to focus on specific aspects of the submission in order to spark discussions.
>
> The final deadline for reviews is the 21st of January, however, the earlier a review is posted the more discussions it will foster.
>
> Thank you very much,
>
> Lonni Besançon, Linköping University
> Pierre Dragicevic, Inria, France
Hi peeps,
I wonder if there is an easy way we can make a list of conference deadlines
relevant to our group?
Best Regards,
Ishtiaque
Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Toronto, ON, CA
web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/