Fwd: FW: HCII Special Seminar Speaker: James Landay (Monday, July 22)

[Artur Dubrawski]

Many of us are involved in relevant work so i thought i would broadcast
this to avoid missing anyone actually interested.

Cheers
Artur

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From: Roni Rosenfeld <roni at cs.cmu.edu>
Date: Thu, Jul 11, 2019, 2:56 PM
Subject: FW: HCII Special Seminar Speaker: James Landay (Monday, July 22)
To: ML-faculty <ml-faculty at cs.cmu.edu>


Topic may be of interest to ML folks.  He's also helping to push the HCI/AI
initiative at Stanford.

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Subject:        HCII Special Seminar Speaker: James Landay (Monday, July 22)
Date:   Thu, 11 Jul 2019 13:53:54 -0400
From:   Carolyn Buzzelli-Stumpf <cbstumpf at andrew.cmu.edu>
To:     hcii-faculty-mtgs at cs.cmu.edu

Dear Faculty,

HCII Special Seminar Speaker, James Landay will be here on Monday, July 22.
HIs talk is scheduled at 12:00 - 1:00pm in Newell Simon Hall, Room 4305.

If you would like to meet with James on Monday, 7/22,  please sign up
here: James Landay schedule: July 22
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*Smart Interfaces for Human-Centered AI*

Professor James A. Landay
Computer Science Department
Stanford University

*Abstract*

AI has the potential to automate people out of their jobs, and in some
cases, it will. But while we should carefully consider the risk of
replacing human capabilities, it’s important to realize that AI has
enormous potential to /augment/ them as well: it can boost the creativity
of our work, help us learn better, deliver healthcare more effectively, and
make our societies more sustainable. Like any tool, however, our
relationship with AI has as much to do with its interface as it does with
the underlying capabilities it provides. Does it amplify our actions and
remain attentive to our goals—even as we revise them—or is it a black box
that accomplishes tasks autonomously? If we want to build a future of open
possibility and empowerment, it’s vital that our ability to harness AI
evolves alongside AI itself. I will illustrate how we are addressing grand
challenges in fields like health and education by building systems that
balance innovative user interfaces with intell!
 igent systems.

*Bio*

James Landay is a Professor of Computer Science and the Anand Rajaraman and
Venky Harinarayan Professor in the School of Engineering at Stanford
University. He specializes in human-computer interaction. He is the founder
and co-director of the World Lab, a joint research and educational effort
with Tsinghua University in Beijing. He is also the Associate Director of
the Stanford Institute for Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI).
Previously, Landay was a Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech
in New York City and prior to that he was a Professor of Computer Science &
Engineering at the University of Washington. From 2003 through 2006 he was
the Laboratory Director of Intel Labs Seattle, a university affiliated
research lab that explored the new usage models, applications, and
technology for ubiquitous computing. He was also the chief scientist and
co-founder of NetRaker, which was acquired by KeyNote Systems in 2004. From
1997 through 2003 he was a professo!
 r in EECS at UC Berkeley. Landay received his BS in EECS from UC Berkeley
in 1990, and MS and PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University
in 1993 and 1996, respectively. His PhD dissertation was the first to
demonstrate the use of sketching in user interface design tools. He was
named to the ACM SIGCHI Academy in 2011 and as an ACM Fellow in 2017. He
formerly served on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee.


Thank you,
Carolyn


*Carolyn Buzzelli-Stumpf* | Assistant to the Director | Human-Computer
Interaction Institute** *The School of Computer Science*| *Carnegie Mellon
University * 3521Newell-Simon Hall | Pittsburgh, PA 15213 | 412-268-1001
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