Computer Science Distinguished Lecture: Socio-Affective Signals as Facilitators of Human-Human and Human-Agent Interaction

Fred Kaiser Building 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Everyone is welcome! Speaker:  Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg Homepage:  https://www.uni-augsburg.de/en/fakultaet/fai/informatik/prof/hcm/team/andre/ Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Title:  Socio-Affective Signals as Facilitators of Human-Human and Human-Agent Interaction Abstract: Social interactions profoundly shape our human life. This presentation explores the potential of imbuing machines with socially-aware interfaces, creating pathways for more natural and […]

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Computer Science Distinguished Lecture: Proof-oriented Programming for Critical Compute Infrastructure

Fred Kaiser Building 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Everyone is welcome! Speaker:  Nikhil Swamy, Microsoft Research Location:   Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Title:  Proof-oriented Programming for Critical Compute Infrastructure Abstract: From the early days of computer science, the potential of mathematical proofs of programs to eradicate large classes of software errors has been widely recognized; however, historically, few practical applications […]

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UBC CS Public Lecture: Trustworthy AI

UBC Robson Square 800 Robson Street, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

This lecture is hosted by the UBC Department of Computer Science and the speaker will be Lorenzo Cavallaro, a Professor of Computer Science at University College London (UCL), where he leads the Systems Security Research Lab. Time: March 20, 2024  5:30 - 6:30 Place:  UBC Robson Sq. C680 HSBC Hall SUBJECT MATTER:  No day goes […]

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Computer Science Distinguished Lecture

Fred Kaiser Building 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

CS Distinguished Lectures are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Speaker:  Dr. Kathi Fisler, Brown University Title:  Socially-Responsible Computing Education: Views from a Researcher Abstract: Efforts to teach ethics in university-level CS have been around since the 1970s. In the last few years, […]

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Computer Science Distinguished Lecture

Fred Kaiser Building 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

CS Distinguished Lectures are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Speaker:  Dr. Radhika Nagpal, Princeton University Title:  Taming the Swarm In nature, thousands of individuals can cooperate to achieve complex goals from local interactions -- from cells that form complex organisms, to social […]

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Computer Science Distinguished Lecture

Fred Kaiser Building 2332 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

CS Distinguished Lectures are free and open to everyone.  No registration is required. Location:  Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Speaker:  Dr. Edward A. Lee, University of California at Berkeley Title: Consistency versus Availability in Distributed Systems Abstract: Distributed software systems often require consistent shared information. For example, connected vehicles require agreement on […]

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