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SCS Special Seminar
Distributing and Coordinating Work in Global Software Development
James D. Herbsleb is an associate professor in the Institute for Software Research, International, in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 1996, he was a member of the Software Production Research Department, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies. He led the Bell Labs Collaboratory project since its kickoff in 1998, addressing issues of geographically distributed software development and designing collaborative applications and services. He holds an M.S. in computer science from the University of Michigan, and a Ph.D.
Theory Lunch Seminar
From Solo to Social Information Foraging Theory
Peter Pirolli is a Research Fellow in the Augmented Social Cognition Area at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), where he has been pursuing studies of human information interaction since 1991. Prior to joining PARC, he was an Associate Professor in the School of Education at UC Berkeley. Pirolli received his doctorate in cognitive psychology from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985.
DREAMWORKS ANIMATION: Trainee Program
Discovery-driven Prototyping for Human-centered Innovation in Ubiquitous Computing
Dr. Youn-kyung Lim is an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Design at KAIST in South Korea. Prof. Lim received her Ph.D. at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in Chicago, Illinois, and holds a Master of Design (M.Des.) in Human-centered Design from the same university. She holds a B.S. in Industrial Design from KAIST where she now works for as a faculty member.
Thesis Oral Defense: Yasmine Kotturi, "Community Oriented Approaches to Building Peer Support Systems in Work"
Human-computer Interaction in Healthcare: A National Priority
Titus Schleyer, DMD, PhD, is currently Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Dental Informatics at the University of Pittsburgh. He holds DMD degrees from the University of Frankfurt, Germany, and Temple University, Philadelphia, as well as a PhD degree in molecular biology from the University of Frankfurt and an MBA degree in Health Administration from Temple University. Dr.
Being a Human Author in the Age of ChatGPT, A Conversation with the Authors of Private I
Role of games, simulation and visualization in addressing development problems in the Indian context
Dr. Eswaran Subrahmanian is a Research Professor at the ICES and EPP at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a Visiting Honorary Professor at the International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore. He was the Chief Scientist at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (India, 2008–2011). He has held visiting professorships at the Faculty of Technology and Policy Management at TU-Delft (Netherlands) the University of Lyon II; and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
HCII Seminar Series -Antti Oulasvirta
Antti Oulasvirta leads the Computational Behavior Lab (cbl.aalto.fi) at Aalto University and the Interactive AI research program at FCAI (Finnish Center for AI). Prior to joining Aalto, he was a Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics and the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction at Saarland University.
Collagen: Applying Collaborative Discourse Theory To Human-Computer Interaction
Dr. Rich is a Distinguished Research Scientist at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL) in Cambridge, Mass. The thread connecting all of Dr. Rich’s research has been to make interacting with a computer more like interacting with a person. As a founder and director of the Programmer’s project at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. in the 1980s, he pioneered research on intelligent assistants for software engineering. Dr. Rich joined MERL in 1991 as a founding member of the Research Lab.
THESIS DEFENSE: Stephen Oney
Labor Day - NO CMU
No Undergraduate Mini-3 Course Meetings (Reading Period)
Session All & Mini-5 Classes Begin
Mini-1 Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline
Mini-2 Classes Begin
Evidence-oriented Programming
Andreas Stefik is an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at Washington State University in 2008 and also holds a bachelor's degree in music. Stefik's research focuses on computer programming languages and development environments, with an emphasis on how competing language designs impact people in practice. He won the 2011 Java Innovation Award for his work on the Sodbeans programming environment and is the inventor of the Quorum Programming Language.
Post-Doc Short Talks 2
Michael Eagle: Michael Eagle is a postdoctoral fellow at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute working with Dr. John Stamper. Michael’s research focuses on deriving understanding from complex interaction data from intelligent tutors and video games. He has worked in data science at Blizzard Entertainment and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment (Turbine Inc.) Michael received a NSF GRFP Honorable Mention award, a GAANN fellow, and Freeman-ASIA recipient.