introduction

The Human and Machine Intelligence group is a new interdisciplinary research group funded under the Humanities Informatics Lab The focus is on aspects of informatics that relate to knowledge, representation, learning, interpretation, and understanding. These concepts are being reshaped by progress in artificial intelligence, machine learning, data science, neuroscience, and associated disciplines. The forum fosters interactions between the humanities and these areas to produce mutually beneficial links between the two. The group emphasizes both research and educational activities at the faculty and student levels.

schedule

Spring 2018       Fall 2017

date participants / speaker topic
Wed
Jan-24		 Everyone Organizational Meeting
Wed
Jan-31		  Everyone  Research Topics Open Session
 Wed
Feb-7		  Rennie Mapp  Weapons of Math Destruction Reading and Discussion Session
 Wed
Feb-14		  Everyone  Discussion Session on AI / Interpretability and Strong AI
 Wed
Feb-21		  Yanjun Qi
(Computer Science)		  Deep Learning: An Overview [slides]
 Wed
Feb-28		  Everyone  Discussion of future projects
 Wed
March-7		  No Seminar this week (Spring Break)
 Wed
March-14		  Yanjun Qi  Deep Learning: An Overview (continued)
 Wed
March-21		  Cancelled due to weather
 Wed
March-28		  Everyone  Discussion of differences between machine and human intelligence
 Wed
April-4		 Everyone  Group Discussions
 Wed
April-11		  Everyone  Group Discussions
 Wed
April-18		  Everyone  Plenary Discussions
 Wed
April-25		  Everyone  Group Discussions
Wed
June 4		 Zihao Zhang AI and Landscape Design [slides]
Tue
July 10		 Paul Humphreys Representations in Deep Neural Nets [slides]
Tue July 24 Chip Levy Optimization Raf Alvarado Information, Reference, and Machine Thirdness [slides]
Tue
July 31		 General Discussion

people

Core Faculty

  • Paul Humphreys (Co-Director) [website]
  • Vicente Ordóñez Román (Co-Director) [website]
  • Rafael Alvarado (Data Science Institute) [website]
  • Jack Chen (East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures) [website]

Associated Faculty

  • Kevin Driscoll (Media Studies) [website]
  • Brie Gertler (Philosophy) [website]
  • Zac Irving (Philosophy) [website]
  • Chip Levy (Neuroscience) [website]
  • Worthy Martin (Computer Science, IATH) [website]

Graduate Students

  • Nazim Adakli (Philosophy) [website]
  • Faraz Dadgostari (Systems Engineering)
  • Derek Lam (Philosophy) [website]
  • Andrei Marasoiu (Philosophy) [website]
  • Peter Tan (Philosophy) [website]
  • Tianlu (Evelyn) Wang (Computer Science) [website]
  • Ahmed Aly (Electrical and Computer Engineering)