fall 2019 and spring 2020 previous semesters schedules
All meetings unless otherwise noted will be on Wednesdays 12:15 – 1:30 in Wilson 142
| date | participants / speaker | topic |
| Wed 4 Sept | Raf Alvarado (UVA Data Science Institute) |
[slides] Presentation on The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Short article (Access needs UVA Library Login) Joint session with the HIL Surveillance Group |
| Wed 11 Sept | Robin Hanson (Economics, George Mason University and Oxford Future of Humanity Institute) | [slides]Where Does Automation Win, in the Short And Very Long Run? |
| Wed 18 Sept | Greg Wheeler (Professor of Philosophy and Computer Science, Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, Director Centre for Human and Machine Intelligence) |
[slides] Prolegomenon to Machine Epistemology |
| Wed 25 Sept | Juan Carlos Caicedo (Broad Institute, Cambridge Mass) |
[slides] Visual Recognition for Quantitative Biology |
| Wed Oct 2 | Zac Irving (Philosophy) | Beyond Importance: Exploration as an Attention Norm |
| Wed Oct 9 | Haifeng Xu (Computer Science, UVA) | The Complex Roles of Information in Strategic Interactions |
| Wed Oct 9 (CS special lecture)
10:30 a.m. Rice Hall 242 |
Nicholas Weaver Researcher, ICSI Lecturer, CS, UC Berkeley |
Reflecting on Internet Surveillance and Control |
| Wed Oct 16 | Deborah Hellman (Law, UVA) | Algorithmic Fairness |
| Friday Oct 25 12:15-1:30 Wilson 142
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Cameron Buckner (Philosophy, University of Houston) |
The Comparative Psychology of Artificial Intelligences |
| Wed 30 Oct | No meeting | |
| Wed Nov 6 | Worthy Martin (CS/IATH UVA)
Chip Levy (Neurosurgery UVA) Vicente Ordonez-Roman (CS) Cameron Buckner (Philosophy, University of Houston) |
Panel + audience discussion on adversarial examples in AI |
| Wed Nov 13 | No meeting | |
| Wed Nov 20 | Paul Humphreys | Some Thoughts About the Epistemic Dimensions of Contemporary AI and Data |
| Wed Nov 27 | No meeting, Thanksgiving | |
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| Wed Jan 22 | Natasha Foutz (UVA Commerce School) |
Applications of Machine Learning to Marketing Big Data. |
| Wed Jan 29 | ||
| Wed Feb 5 | Catherine Schuman (Oak Ridge National Lab) |
Neuromorphic Computing and ML |
| Wed Feb 12 | John Basl (Philosophy, Northeastern University) |
Computer Ethics |
| Wed Feb 19 | Jordan Rodu (UVA Statistics) | The Principled Prediction-Problem Ontology:
When Black Box Algorithms Are (Not) Appropriate |
| Wed Feb 26 | John Chamberlin (Observatory Group) | AI, Financial Markets, and the Future of Work |
| Wed Mar 4 | Sarah Brayne (Sociology, UT Texas) |
Criminal Justice and Big Data |
| Wed Mar 11 | No meeting, Spring Break | |
| Wed Mar 18 | ||
| Wed Mar 25 | Rennie Mapp (Digital Humanities, UVA) | What Do Digital Humanists Bring to the Study of Artificial Intelligence? |
| Thu Apr 2 – Sat Apr 4 | Humanities Informatics Lab Showcase, Wilson 142 | |
| Wed Apr 8 | Joseph Kadane (Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University) | Bayesian Epistemology |
| Wed Apr 15 | Bert Huang (CS, Virginia Tech) | Fairness in Machine Learning |
| Wed April 22 | Johannes Lenhard (Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany) | Model Plasticity |