[Access Lunch] No access lunch tomorrow, go to HCII seminar instead!

[Cole Gleason]

Hi everyone,

Because of overlap with the HCII Special Seminar tomorrow, we are
cancelling Accessibility Lunch for the week. Please go see James Landay's
talk instead!

Sorry for the late notice!
Cole Gleason

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From: Carolyn Buzzelli-Stumpf <cbstumpf at andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:14 PM
Subject: Monday (7/22): HCII Special Seminar Speaker: James Landay
To: <hcii-seminar-series at cs.cmu.edu>


*Monday (7/22): HCII Special Seminar Speaker Professor James Landay*

*Speaker:*  Professor James Landay
*Seminar Date:  *Monday, July 22, 2019
*Seminar Time/Place:  *12:00 - 1:30pm, Newell Simon Hall 4305
*Unable to make the talk?*  Watch live stream here
<https://scs.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=8c6ae220-4266-466b-bcce-aa8e013a9ca2>


*Talk Title: Smart Interfaces for Human-Centered AI*

*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 intelligent systems.

*Speaker 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 professor 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.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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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