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Immersive Virtual Environments for Education
Dr. Brian Slator is Professor of Computer Science at North Dakota State University. His research interests are Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Educational Media. He is currently involved in several research projects in the area of immersive, multi-user, virtual environments. He is also involved in research for developing software tools for constructing virtual worlds, and innovative methods for assessing learning in virtual environments.
Robotics Thesis Defense
The Virtual Trillium Trail: The value of Freedom and Fidelity in the child-computer-environment interface
Maria C.R. Harrington holds a Ph.D. in Information Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh. Her major advisor was Dr. Peter Brusilovsky. Since 2000 she has also been an Adjunct Professor/Visiting Lecturer for Human-Computer Interaction, User Centered Design, Human Factors in System Design, and Introduction to Information Science in the School of Information Sciences (SIS), at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a MSIS from SIS, and a BS in Economics with a Minor in Art from Carnegie Mellon University.
Optum Technology: CMU Summer Speaker Series
How to read 15 million books in one sitting (or mining a hypertext of quotations and ideas from very large digital libraries)
Bill Schilit is part of Google Research and an adopted member of the Book Search group. Before joining Google, Bill was co-director of the Intel Research lab in Seattle, managed digital library and mobile computing research at Fuji-Xerox (FXPAL), worked on distributed computing at AT&T’s Bell Labs, and was part of the team that developed Ubiquitous Computing at PARC. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, Associate Editor-in-Chief of Computer Magazine and a past member of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society. Bill received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1995.
HCII Seminar Series - Rich Caruana
Rich Caruana is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research. Before joining Microsoft, Rich was on the faculty in the Computer Science Department at Cornell University, at UCLA’s Medical School, and at CMU’s Center for Learning and Discovery. Rich’s Ph.D. is from Carnegie Mellon University, where he worked with Tom Mitchell and Herb Simon. His thesis on Multi-Task Learning helped create interest in a new subfield of machine learning called Transfer Learning.
Excursions into Domains of Familiarity and Surprise
Amy Franceschini is an artist and educator who uses various media to encourage formats of exchange and production, many times in collaboration with other practitioners. An overarching theme in her work is a perceived conflict between humans and nature. Her projects reveal the history and currents of contradictions that emerge relating to this divide, collectively questioning or challenging systems of exchange and the tools we use to “hunt” and “gather”.
HCII Seminar Series - Carol J. Smith
Carol J. Smith leads research on responsible artificial intelligence (RAI) and human-machine teaming for the CMU Software Engineering Institute in the AI Division, where she is a Senior Research Scientist. Carol is also an Adjunct Instructor for the CMU HCII teaching graduate and undergraduate courses. Carol has been leading UX research to improve human experiences across industries for over 20 years and improving AI systems since 2015. She is the Information Architecture Conference (IAC) 2023 Co-Chair, volunteers for UXPA and IEEE, and is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.
The Social Life of Spacecraft: Organization and Collaboration on Robotic Spacecraft Teams
Janet Vertesi is a sociologist of science and technology at Princeton University, where she is Link-Cotsen Fellow at the Society of Fellows and a lecturer in the Sociology Department. Her research focuses on the complex intersections between people, science, and technological systems: especially the role of digital images in science, the organization and coordination of distributed robotic spacecraft teams, transnational technologies, and critical approaches to HCI. Vertesi holds a Ph.D.
HCII Seminar Series - Vernelle Noel
Vernelle A. A. Noel, Ph.D. is the Lucian and Rita Caste Assistant Professor in Architecture and Urban Design at the Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture. She is a computational design scholar, architect, artist, and Director of the Situated Computation + Design Lab. She investigates traditional and digital practices, and their intersections with society.
Interactive Learning: Combining Machine Learning Strategies with Humans in the Loop
Burr Settles is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received a PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2008, with additional studies in Linguistics and Biology. His current research focuses on interactive machine learning that resembles a “dialogue” between computers and humans, with applications in natural language processing, biology, and social computing. He also runs the website FAWM.ORG, prefers sandals to shoes, and plays guitar in the Pittsburgh pop band Delicious Pastries.
Thesis Proposal: Kerry Chang
Mini-5 Course Drop Deadline to Receive Tuition Adjustment
Semester & Mini-4 Course Withdrawal Grade Deadline
Session Two Last Day of Classes
Semester Course Add Deadline
Myo meetup with Thalmic Labs
METALS Professional Talk Series: Steve Ritter
BHCI Alumni Event - CHI 2016
CANCELED: Tracking Behavioral Symptoms of Mental Health and Delivering Personalized Interventions Using Mobile and Wearable Devices
Tanzeem Choudhury is an associate professor in Computing and Information Sciences at Cornell University and a co-founder of HealthRhythms. At Cornell, she directs the People-Aware Computing group, which works on inventing the future of technology-assisted wellbeing. Tanzeem received her PhD from the Media Laboratory at MIT. Tanzeem was awarded the MIT Technology Review TR35 award, NSF CAREER award and a TED Fellowship. Follow the group's work on twitter @pac_cornell