Hello TUX!
A reminder that tomorrow we have a Member Presentation by Prof. Ron Baecker.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Ali, Daniel, and Tovi
TUX Member Presentation: Prof. Ron Baecker
March 27, 2018. DGP Lab, Department of Computer Science at U of T @ 40 St.
George St. Room 5166
Lunch reception begins at 12:30 pm. Presentation begins at 1:00 pm.
AI Deployments Accelerate Without Sufficient Intelligence: Opportunities for
HCI Research
After 35 years of ups and downs, AI finally achieved in the last two decades
triumphs over the world's best humans in chess, Jeopardy, Go, and poker.
Accelerating advances in deep leaning technology now bring actual or
promised deployments in speech and face recognition, judgments of human
potential, medical image processing, driverless cars, and automated warfare.
But are these systems truly intelligent? Replacing simplistic definitions
of intelligence with the more nuanced descriptions of Sternberg and Gardner
suggests that the answer is "no". Thinking about what we should expect of
intelligent agents, we must acknowledge the lack of algorithms that can
explain the logic behind their actions so that we can understand their
behaviour. This is required so that we can trust them, delegate
responsibility for actions and accountability for errors, and expect their
decisions that are just. Removing these limitations will require a healthy
dose of HCI research and user experience innovation. My goal with this talk
is to encourage audience members to work on these issues.
Note: Ideas in this lecture are based in part on Chapter 11 of the
forthcoming text: Computers and Society: Modern Perspectives, by Ronald M.
Baecker, Oxford University Press, 2019.
Bio
Ronald Baecker is Director of the Technologies for Aging Gracefully
Laboratory (TAGlab), Professor of Computer Science, and Bell Universities
Laboratories Chair in Human-Computer Interaction.
The focus of TAGlab activities is R&D in support of aging throughout the
life course including cognition, communication, and social interaction.
Collaborators include individuals from Baycrest, Columbia Medical School,
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, and Toronto Rehabilitation Institute.
He is also Affiliate Scientist with the Kunin-Lunenfeld Applied Research
Unit of Baycrest (formerly, Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care), Adjunct
Scientist with Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, and founder of the
Knowledge Media Design Institute at the University of Toronto. He has been
named one of the 60 Pioneers of Computer Graphics by ACM SIGGRAPH, has been
elected to the CHI Academy by ACM SIGCHI, and has been given the Canadian
Human Computer Communications Society Achievement Award in May 2005. His
B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. are from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Baecker is an active researcher, lecturer, and consultant on
human-computer interaction and user interface design, user support, software
visualization, multimedia, computer-supported cooperative work and learning,
the Internet, entrepreneurship and strategic planning in the software
industry, and the role of information technology in business. He has
published over 175 papers and articles on topics in these areas. He is also
the author or co-author of two published videotapes and of four books:
. "Reading in Human-Computer Interaction: A Multidisciplinary
Approach",
. "Human Factors in Typography for More Readable Programs",
. "Readings in Groupware and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work:
Facilitating Human-Human Collabortation", and
. "Reading in Human-Computer Interaction: Towards the Year 2000".
He is the co-holder of 2 patents. Professor Baecker was the founder, CEO,
and Chairman of HCR Corporation, a Toronto-based UNIX contract R&D and
technology development and marketing firm, sold in 1990 to a U.S.
competitor. He was also the founder of Expresto Software Corp, a firm
specializing in structured visual communication explaining software and
other complex technology. Expresto Software was sold in 2002 to Caseware
International. Another entrepreneurial venture was a virtual non-profit
foundation within the University of Toronto to distribute and support the
open source ePresence Interactive Media rich media webcasting and archiving
system, which then led to the formation of a start-up delivering ePresence
products, services, and solutions, recently sold to Desire2Learn. Most
recently, he was instrumental in the founding of MyVoice.
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