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Reading group on critical computing
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

Hi Third Space, Dr. Robert Soden (cc'd) and I are interested in starting a reading group for reading and discussing interesting papers/books on Critical Computing. Many of you have already met Robert and some of you already know that Robert is joining our Department (jointly with the School of Environment) in Fall 2020. His vast knowledge of Sociology and Critical Theory will be a great resource for us. We are planning to hold the meeting online at a convenient time so that we all can participate. But before that please let me know if you will be interested in joining the group. You can directly reply to this email and let us know about your interest. Once we know how many of you will join, we will inform others in DGP to join us. Also, I would need one of you to help us in scheduling the meeting, setting up a Hangout link, keeping track of readings, etc. 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…>

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[Location changed] HCI meeting Tue July 30th
by Jiannan Li 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

Hello all, We will have our bi-weekly HCI group meeting at 12.30 on Tuesday July 30th, in *BA 5256*. Since we do not have a volunteer this week, we will: 1. Share recent research progress for feedback 2. Share interesting works (e.g. SIGGRAPH just released their technical paper fast-forward) and lead some discussions 3. If we can find a paper that can draw enough interest tonight, we can have a reading group session. Food will be served. Look forward to seeing you there. Thanks, Jiannan

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Critical Computing Reading Group
by Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

Hi All, Dr. Robert Soden (our new faculty (jointly with the School of Environment) joining in Fall 2020) and Dr. Ishtiaque Ahmed is starting a critical computing reading group. Both of them have a vast knowledge of Critical Theories and Concepts. The group should be a great resource for many of you. If you are interested to participate, please let us know. The meetup will be online. Below is the link for a doodle poll; please indicate what times work for you. https://doodle.com/poll/tv8hfmr5gietqw8s Many thanks, Rifat -- Mohammad Rashidujjaman Rifat Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto. http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/~rifat/

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Machine Learning is being used by BRAC - the largest NGO in the world
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 27 Jul '19

27 Jul '19

Folks - Check this out: <goog_814436682> https://blog-brac-net.cdn.ampproject.org/c/blog.brac.net/how-brac-used-mach… 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…>

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Fwd: Ada Lovelace Fellowship for 2nd Year Doctoral Students
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 27 Jul '19

27 Jul '19

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: Lynda Barnes <lbarnes(a)cs.toronto.edu> Date: Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 9:15 PM Subject: Ada Lovelace Fellowship for 2nd Year Doctoral Students To: <aspuru(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <jacobson(a)cs.toronto.edu>, < anikolov(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <bor(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <Nyulik(a)gmail.com>, < ashton(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <ccc(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <mcosmin(a)cs.toronto.edu>, < droy(a)utstat.utoronto.ca>, <duvenaud(a)cs.toronto.edu>, < diwlevin(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <delara(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <faith(a)cs.toronto.edu>, < frank(a)spoclab.com>, <pekhimenko(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <hinton(a)cs.toronto.edu>, < kyros(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <chechik(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <marzyeh(a)cs.toronto.edu>, < nisarg(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <urtasun(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <ravin(a)cs.toronto.edu>, < tovi(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <zemel(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <sheila(a)cs.toronto.edu>, < ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <toni(a)cs.toronto.edu>, <yangxu(a)cs.toronto.edu>, < Zhaolei.Zhang(a)utoronto.ca>, <fidler(a)cs.toronto.edu>, Grad Chair < gh(a)cs.toronto.edu> Dear Faculty Our records indicate that you have Students that would be eligible for this Fellowship. Microsoft is offering the Ada Lovelace Fellowship to Doctoral Student in their Second year of PhD studies. Nominations should be submitted to gradprograms(a)cs.toronto.edu by August 10th for review by the Graduate Chair. Below is the Eligibility Criteria. *Eligibility criteria* - Microsoft’s mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Fellows should support this mission and embrace opportunities to foster diverse and inclusive cultures within their communities. - PhD students must be nominated by their university, and their nomination must be submitted by the office of the chair of the department. - Students must be enrolled at a university in the United States, Canada, or Mexico. - Proposed research must be closely related to the general research areas carried out by Microsoft Research as noted in the *Research areas* tab above. - Students must be in their second year of a PhD program in the fall semester or quarter of 2019. The department chair’s office at the nominating university will need to attest that the student is considered a second year PhD student having taken into account transfers, approved leaves of absence, etc. - A maximum of three nominations per department will be accepted; each nominee should help us increase the opportunities for students who are underrepresented in the field of computing. This includes those who self-identify as a woman, African American, Black, Hispanic, Latinx, American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and/or person with a disability. - The recipient must remain an active, full-time student in a PhD program during the three consecutive academic years of the award or forfeit the award. Fellowships are not available for extension; however, leaves of absence will be considered on a case by case basis. - Payment of the award, as described above, will be made directly to the university and dispersed according to the university’s policies. Microsoft will have discretion as to how any remaining funds will be used if the student is no longer qualified to receive funding (e.g. if the student unenrolls from the program, graduates, or transfers to a different university). - A recipient of the Microsoft Research Ada Lovelace Fellowship may not receive another fellowship from another company or institution during the same academic period. Fellows accepting multiple fellowships may become ineligible to receive continued funding from Microsoft. Microsoft will at its sole discretion consider a joint fellowship with a government or non-profit organization. -- Regards, Lynda Barnes Graduate Program Assistant University of Toronto Dept. of Computer Sciencelbarnes(a)cs.toronto.edu 416 978 7816(P) 416 946 7132(F) This electronic mail communication is intended as a private communication for the sole use of the primary addressee and those individuals listed for copies in the original message. If you are not specifically authorized to receive this electronic mail and if you believe that you received it in error please notify the original sender immediately.

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Fwd: SIGCHI Student Travel Grant Deadline *Thursday, August 1st*
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 23 Jul '19

23 Jul '19

You can apply for travel grant for CHI 2020 ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)csebuet.org> Date: Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 7:51 PM Subject: Fwd: SIGCHI Student Travel Grant Deadline *Thursday, August 1st* To: Ishtiaque Ahmed <ishtiaque(a)cs.toronto.edu> Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto Web: www.ishtiaque.net Skype: syed.ishtiaque.ahmed ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Oana Inel <O.Inel(a)tudelft.nl> Date: Tue, Jul 23, 2019, 4:18 PM Subject: SIGCHI Student Travel Grant Deadline *Thursday, August 1st* To: <CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS(a)listserv.acm.org> * We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message * This is a gentle reminder that the deadline for the SIGCHI Student Travel Grant< https://sigchi.org/conferences/student-travel-grants/sigchi-student-travel-…> ( https://sigchi.org/conferences/student-travel-grants/sigchi-student-travel-…) is quickly approaching next week for your respective conferences. The applications are due Thursday, August 1st, 2019. Please share information about the student travel grant< https://sigchi.org/conferences/student-travel-grants/sigchi-student-travel-…> and application link with colleagues planning to attend: Application Due: <https://sigchi.forms.fm/sstg-2019-q3/forms/6762> August 1, 2019<https://sigchi.forms.fm/sstg-2019-q3/forms/6762> (please see the form linked: https://sigchi.forms.fm/sstg-2019-q3/forms/6762 ) Notification: August 15, 2019 · CHI 2020 · HRI 2020 · IUI 2020 --------------------------------------------------------------- For news of CHI books, courses & software, join CHI-RESOURCES mailto: chi-resources-subscribe-request(a)listserv.acm.org To unsubscribe from CHI-ANNOUNCEMENTS send an email to mailto:chi-announcements-unsubscribe-request@listserv.acm.org For further details of CHI lists see http://listserv.acm.org ---------------------------------------------------------------

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Ishtiaque Unavailable from July 23 to July 28
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

Dear All, FYI - I will be traveling from July 23 to July 28 and will have very limited Internet access. 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…>

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Microsoft Scholarship
by Maryam Mokhberi 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

Hi team, I ran into this <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/ada-lovelace-fell… /?OCID=msr_careers_ada_facsumm_tw> and this <https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/academic-program/phd-fellowship/?O…> scholarship from Microsoft for the second-year and third-year PhD students. I thought some of you might be interested. :) Best, Maryam

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Design from rural: Interaction paper
by Ishtiaque Ahmed 16 Jul '19

16 Jul '19

This paper has recently been published in ACM Interaction Magazine. You may find this interesting. 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…>

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Talk Tue 16 July 12:30-2:00 pm in Bahen 5187 (also live streamed & recorded): Rationality Enhancement: Towards theories and tools for helping people become more effective by Falk Lieder
by Joseph Jay Williams 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Just a reminder on this talk tomorrow, see details below. tiny.cc/falktalk <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/8/http://tiny.cc/falktalk> will have link to live stream and recording, plus directions to this room in DGP. Joseph On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 6:47 PM Joseph Jay Williams <williams(a)cs.toronto.edu> wrote: > I thought you might be interested in this, please feel free to forward on > to relevant mailing lists. I've messaged people in open cc (including Falk) > as it's a chance for people from different backgrounds to know of or be > reminded of each other (but feel free to request a different approach). I'm > sure I didn't remember everyone so please feel free to send on. Falk and I > overlapped in Tom Griffiths' computational cognitive science lab, and in > addition to applying reinforcement learning & ML to cognitive science, he's > visiting my Intelligent Adaptive Interventions group for a collaborative > project on HCI & education. > > ***** > Falk Lieder from Max Planck Institute (formerly UC Berkeley) will be > giving a talk Tue 16 July 12:30-2:00 pm in Bahen (BA) 5187 (U of T time, > talk starts 12:40, runs about 50 minutes). The title, abstract and bio are > pasted below. Feel free to forward this on to colleagues or relevant > mailing lists, the audience will be multidisciplinary, crossing > human-computer interaction, psychology, and machine learning. > > > Go to the Google Doc at URL tiny.cc/falktalk > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/2/http://tiny.cc/falktalk> for > information such as: > > >When he is visiting and how to request a meeting. > > >The information to watch the live stream and recording of his talk (link > will be added at 12:30 Tue 16 July). > > >Directions to BA 5187. > > >Anything else we think of adding or people request. > > Rationality Enhancement: Towards theories and tools for helping people > become more effective > > Abstract: Human judgment and decision-making appear to be riddled with > numerous systematic errors. Previous attempts to attenuate these so-called > cognitive biases by educating people about them or schooling them in the > laws of logic, probability theory, and expected utility theory have had > limited success. In this talk, I will outline an alternative approach to > improving human decision-making that grew out of rethinking what it means > to be rational. In the first part of my talk, I will illustrate that making > Herbert Simon’s notion of bounded rationality mathematically precise allows > us to derive optimal decision strategies from first principles. In the > second part of my talk, I will illustrate how such advances can be > leveraged to improve human decision-making. Concretely, I will present an > intelligent tutor that can discover optimal planning strategies and helps > people to internalize those strategies by providing metacognitive feedback. > Finally, in the third part of my talk, I will present a complementary > approach that combines artificial intelligence with gamification to help > people overcome procrastination and become more productive. > > > > Bio: Falk Lieder is a Max Planck Research Group Leader at the MPI for > Intelligent Systems here in Tübingen. His newly established Rationality > Enhancement Group strives to lay the cognitive and technological > foundations for helping people become more effective. He completed his > Ph.D. in Tom Griffiths’s Computational Cognitive Science Lab at the > University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this, he worked as a research > assistant in Klaas Stephan’s Translational Neuromodeling Unit, received a > masters degree in Neural Systems and Computation from ETH Zurich, and > completed two simultaneous bachelor’s degrees in Cognitive Science and > Mathematics/Computer Science at the University of Osnabrück > > Website: > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/3/https://sites.google.com/site/fa…> > https://sites.google.com/site/ > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/7/https://sites.google.com/site/> > falklieder/home > > > Joseph > > > Joseph Jay Williams > www.josephjaywilliams.com > <http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ptagqbmajy4sj3yr/4/http://www.josephjaywilliams.com/> > Assistant Professor > Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto > Intelligent Adaptive Interventions (IAI) research group > > <http://mailstat.us/tr/opt-out?guid=ptagqbmajy4sj3yr>

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