Technology, Business and Government Lecture: “STEM and the Future of Work- A Conversation with Rep. Chrissy Houlahan”
Representative Houlahan will speak about how her experiences as a former teacher and engineer have shaped her priorities and work in Congress, and about the importance of STEM work/jobs across […]
CIS Seminar: “Human-Centered Interactive Systems for Configuring, Extending, and Developing AI Applications”
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are emerging and affecting our lives in many aspects. However, the majority of individuals are merely users of AI with little capability to adapt AI to […]
CIS Seminar: “Communication Complexity, Quantum Computing and Optimization: New Connections and Insights”
How much information flows through a system? This fundamental question is at the heart of communication complexity. Techniques from this field have turned out to be immensely powerful and fairly […]
CIS Seminar: “Bridging Learning and Decision Making”
Machine learning is becoming widely used in decision making, in domains ranging from personalized medicine and mobile health to online education and recommendation systems. While (supervised) machine learning traditionally excels […]
CIS Seminar: “Expanding the Reach of Fuzzing”
Software bugs are pervasive in modern software. As software is integrated into increasingly many aspects of our lives, these bugs have increasingly severe consequences, both from a security (e.g. Cloudbleed, […]
CIS Seminar: “Graph representation learning for drug discovery”
The current pandemic highlights an acute need to develop fast therapeutics against health threats. Traditional approaches to drug discovery are expensive and slow to react to pandemics. In this talk, […]
CIS Seminar: “Prioritizing Computation and Analyst Resources in Large-scale Data Analytics”
Data volumes are growing exponentially, fueled by an increased number of automated processes such as sensors and devices. Meanwhile, the computational power available for processing this data – as well […]
CIS Seminar: “Bias and Representation in Sociotechnical Systems”
Algorithms play a central role in our lives today, mediating our access to civic engagement, social connections, employment opportunities, news media and more. While the sociotechnical systems deploying these algorithms—search […]
CIS Seminar: “Human-AI Systems for Making Video Useful”
Video is becoming a core medium for communicating a wide range of content, including educational lectures, vlogs, and how-to tutorials. While videos are engaging and informative, they lack the familiar […]
CIS Seminar: “Proof systems for governance, transparency, and privacy”
Record-keeping has long played a critical role in society, from governing property ownership to establishing historical “truth”. Today, our dependence on digital records is becoming absolute, from our personal wealth, […]