A color photo of a woman smiling for a photo 04.26.24 1:30pm
Reflections on Disinformation, Democracy, and Free Expression
Speaker: Dr. Kate Starbird
Host: Cornell Bowers CIS Distinguished Speaker Series
A color photo of a man smiling for a photo 05.01.24 3:30pm
New Opportunities at the Intersection of Graphics, Vision, & HCI
Speaker: Abe Davis

Past Events

04.12.24 1:30pm
Echo Chambers, Filter Bubbles, and Rabbit Holes: Measuring the Impact of Online Platforms
Speaker: Ronald Robertson
03.27.24 3:30pm
Data Values: Digital Surveillance and the New Epistemology of Psychiatry
Speaker: Mira Vale
03.20.24 3:30pm
Artistic Vision: Interactive Computational Guidance for Developing Expertise
Speaker: Jane E
03.13.24 3:30pm
Why the First Amendment Protects Misinformation, and Why It Should Continue to Do So
Speaker: Jeff Kosseff
Host: Cornell Bowers CIS Distinguished Speaker Series
03.08.24 1:30pm
Operationalizing Responsible Machine Learning: From Equality Towards Equity
Speaker: Angelina Wang
03.06.24 3:30pm
Making Better Decisions with Human-AI Teams
Speaker: Hussein Mozannar
03.01.24 3:30pm
Generative AI for the Cyberphysical World
Speaker: Andrew Spielberg
02.28.24 3:30pm
Content Curation in Online Platforms
Speaker: Manoel Horta Ribeiro
02.23.24 1:30pm
Augment Human Thought and Creativity with the Power of AR and AI
Speaker: Ryo Suzuki
02.21.24 3:30pm
Dynamic Allocation of Scarce Resources
Speaker: Afshin Nikzad
02.14.24 3:30pm
High-stakes decisions from low-quality data: Learning and planning for wildlife conservation
Speaker: Lily Xu
01.31.24 3:30pm
Designing Reliable Human-AI Interactions: Translating Languages and Matching Students
Speaker: Niloufar Salehi
01.24.24 3:30pm
Algorithmic Governance
Speaker: Sarah Cen
12.06.23 3:30pm
The Hidden Normativities of Generative AI
Speaker: Tarleton Gillespie
11.29.23 3:30pm
Between Equity and Equality: Mathematical Measures of Fairness in Political Representation
Speaker: Alma Steingar
11.14.23 3:30pm
Less Discriminatory Algorithms
Speaker: Solon Barocas
11.01.23 3:30pm
Does Social Media Support or Worsen Mental Well-Being? Well, It Depends
Speaker: Munmun De Choudhury
10.25.23 3:30pm
Algorithmic Bias in Education: The Problem and the Debate About What To Do
Speaker: Ryan Baker
10.17.23 3:30pm
Advancing Learning Analytics: Insights From Trace and Survey Data on Self-Regulated Learning
Speaker: Heeryung Choi
09.27.23 3:30pm
What’s a Parent to Do? Measuring Cultural Logics of Parenting with Text Analysis
Speaker: Luca Pesando
08.30.23 4:20pm
Computational Narrative Understanding and the Human Desire to Make-Believe
Speaker: Andrew Piper
04.12.23 3:30pm
Generative Machines and Ground Truth
Speaker: Kate Crawford
03.10.23 1:30pm
Governing Technology: Questions, Agent Models, and Impact
Speaker: Sebastian Benthall
03.08.23 3:30pm
Designing and Analyzing Machine Learning Algorithms in the Presence of Strategic Behavior
Speaker: Hanrui Zhang
03.01.23 3:30pm
Algorithmic Fairness from a Sociotechnical Lens
Speaker: William Isaac
02.17.23 1:30pm
Digitizing Welfare: How Social Policy Became Technology Policy in the United States
Speaker: Marc Aidinoff
02.15.23 3:30pm
On the Boundary: How Bureaucrats Datafy Everyday Behavior in China
Speaker: Chuncheng Liu
02.08.23 3:30pm
Responsible Machine Learning through the Lens of Causal Inference
Speaker: Amanda Coston
01.25.23 3:00pm
Aligning Machine Learning, Law, and Policy for Responsible Real-World Deployments
Speaker: Peter Henderson
11.30.22 4:00pm
Speaking Politically: How Tech Policy Makes Itself Heard
Speaker: Marc Aidinoff
11.02.22 4:00pm
Designing Culturally-relevant Educational Technology at a Global Scale
Speaker: Amy Ogan
10.26.22 4:00pm
Everyone Has to Hack: Hacking From the Users’ Perspective
Speaker: Barry Brown
10.12.22 4:00pm
Voices in the Code: A Story about People, Their Values, and the Algorithm They Made
Speaker: David Robinson
09.22.22 11:30am
AI for Social Impact: Results from Deployments for Public Health and Conservation
Speaker: Milind Tambe
09.21.22 4:00pm
Patching Development: Information Politics and Social Change in India
Speaker: Rajesh Veeraraghavan
05.04.22 4:00pm
Disinformation as a Public Good
Speaker: Igor Vamos
04.13.22 4:00pm
Responsible Design of Information Access Systems
Speaker: Fernando Diaz
03.25.22 2:30pm
Portable Laser Cutting
Speaker: Thijs Roumen
03.18.22 2:30pm
Computational Infrastructure Materials for the Networked & Interactive Built Environment
Speaker: Sai Swaminathan
03.16.22 4:00pm
Data Science for Healthier Social Platforms
Speaker: Martin Saveski
03.02.22 4:00pm
Quantifying Success and Failure Dynamics in Science and Innovation
Speaker: Yian Yin
02.23.22 4:00pm
Thinking with Trees
Speaker: Shannon Mattern
02.18.22 2:30pm
Incentive-Aware Machine Learning for Decision Making
Speaker: Chara Podimata
02.16.22 4:00pm
Designing Elastic Space
Speaker: Daniel Leithinger
02.11.22 2:30pm
Examining Algorithmic Bias and Radicalization on YouTube
Speaker: Homa Hosseinmardi
12.15.21 4:00pm
Informationally Robust Approaches to Auction Theory
Speaker: Ben Brooks
12.01.21 4:00pm
Digitizing the Supply Chain
Speaker: Matthew Hockenberry
11.03.21 4:00pm
What If Good Design Is Not Enough?
Speaker: Kentaro Toyama
10.27.21 4:00pm
Reimagining Social Media Governance
Speaker: Sarita Schoenebeck
10.20.21 4:00pm
Compass to Sentinel: the Automation of Self-tracking Technology
Speaker: Natasha Dow-Schüll
10.06.21 3:30pm
Situated, Autonomous, and Free? Hacking Diversity in Technical Work
Speaker: Christina Dunbar-Hester
09.22.21 4:00pm
Social Movements and Knowledge: Exploring the Interfaces of Technology Design, Expertise, & Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Speaker: David J. Hess
03.12.21 2:30pm
Human-AI Systems for Making Videos Useful
Speaker: Amy Pavel
03.10.21 4:00pm
Pervasive Computing with Everyday Devices to Build & Sustain Resilience, Wellbeing, & Work-life Balance
Speaker: Pablo Paredes
03.05.21 2:30pm
Does Demand Create Its Own Supply on YouTube?
Speaker: Kevin Munger
03.03.21 4:00pm
Prediction in Social Science: A Tool to Study Inequality in Populations
Speaker: Ian Lundberg
02.26.21 2:30pm
Interactive Authoring and Reading with IDEs for Ideas
Speaker: Andrew Head
02.24.21 4:00pm
The Internet from the South: An Ethnography of Code and Infrastructure
Speaker: Fernanda R. Rosa
02.19.21 2:30pm
Perception and Decision-Making Systems for Human-Robot Teaming in Safety-Critical Environments
Speaker: Angelique Taylor
02.17.21 4:00pm
The Future of A.I. for Social Good
Speaker: Saiph Savage
02.10.21 4:00pm
The Impact of Datafication on Healthcare
Speaker: Megh Marathe
02.05.21 2:30pm
Fairness in Algorithmic Services
Speaker: Allison Koenecke
12.03.20 4:00pm
Info Sci Colloquium on Digital Governance
Speaker: Nathan Matias
11.19.20 4:00pm
Info Sci Colloquium on Liberation Technology
Speaker: Terry Winograd
10.22.20 4:00pm
Info Sci Colloquium on Identity Transformation
Speaker: Tess Tanenbaum
Host: Wendy Ju
10.08.20 4:00pm
Info Sci Colloquium on Critical Race Theory in HCI
Speaker: Ihudiya Finda Ogbonnaya-Ogburu with Angela Smith, and Alexandra To
03.20.20 3:00pm
Designing Beliefs-driven Interactions with Data
Speaker: Yea-Seul Kim
03.12.20 4:00pm
Data Science Methods to Reduce Inequality and Improve Healthcare
Speaker: Emma Pierson
03.11.20 4:00pm
As We Are: Detecting and Mitigating Human Bias in Visual Analytics
Speaker: Emily Hall
03.06.20 3:00pm
Making AI the New Electricity: Human-AI Interaction Design in Healthcare, Language, and Beyond
Speaker: Qian Yang
03.04.20 4:00pm
Distributive Justice for Machine Learning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Defining, Measuring, and Mitigating Algorithmic Unfairness
Speaker: Hoda Heidari
02.28.20 3:00pm
Optimizing the Exchange of Support and Information in Digital Mental Health Technologies
Speaker: Rachel Kornfield
02.26.20 4:00pm
Metamaterial Devices
Speaker: Alexandra Ion
02.12.20 4:00pm
Improving Software Ethics with Empirically Validated Software Practices
Speaker: Brittany Johnson
02.07.20 3:00pm
Tiers and Networks: The Shifting Strategies of Private Platform Governance
Speaker: Robyn Caplan
02.05.20 4:00pm
Trusting in the Network Society: Encryption as an Instrument of Decentralization
Speaker: Gili Vidan
01.31.20 3:00pm
No Rage Against the Machines: Threat of Automation Does Not Change Policy Preferences
Speaker: Baobao Zhang
01.29.20 4:00pm
The Rich get Richer in Rural Innovation Economies: Revisiting the Digital Divide
Speaker: Jean Hardy
01.22.20 4:00pm
Machine Learning in High-Stakes Settings: Risks and Opportunities
Speaker: Maria De-Arteaga
11.20.19 4:00pm
Joint Colloquium - Keith Green and Nate Foster
Speaker: Keith Green and Nate Foster
11.13.19 4:00pm
Joint Colloquium - Guy Hoffman and Karen Levy
Speaker: Guy Hoffman & Karen Levy
10.16.19 4:00pm
Joint Colloquium - Cindy Kao and David Mimno
Speaker: Cindy Kao & David Mimno
03.27.19 4:00pm
The Next Billion Medical Devices
Speaker: Edward Wang
03.20.19 4:00pm
Social Computing for Social Good in Low-Resource Environments
Speaker: Aditya Vashistha
03.18.19 11:00am
Computational Wireless Sensing at Scale
Speaker: Rajalakshmi Nandakumar
03.15.19 2:30pm
Designing Accessible Mobile Computing Experiences for Wheelchair Users
Speaker: Patrick Carrington
03.13.19 4:00pm
Integrated Human-Machine Expression
Speaker: Sang-won Leigh
03.08.19 2:30pm
Context-Driven Implicit Interactions
Speaker: Gierad Laput
03.06.19 4:00pm
Communicating Opaque Algorithmic Processes in Socio-Technical Systems
Speaker: Motahhare Eslami
02.27.19 4:00pm
Intelligent Digital Fabrication: Toward a Collaborative Partnership between Humans & Machines
Speaker: Jeeeun Kim
Host: Francois Guimbretiere
02.20.19 4:00pm
Books as Data: On Computation and Cultural Analysis
Speaker: Matthew Wilkens
Host: David Mimno
02.19.19 4:15pm
Security for All: Modeling Structural Inequalities to Design More Secure Systems
Speaker: Elissa Redmiles
02.13.19 4:00pm
Understanding the Implications of the Data Economy
Speaker: Cristobal Cheyre
02.06.19 4:00pm
The Moral Limits of Predictive Practices: The Case of Credit-Based Insurance Scores
Speaker: Barbara Kiviat
Host: Karen Levy
02.01.19 2:30pm
Living with Smart Things
Speaker: Jasmine Jones
Host: Sue Fussell
11.14.18 4:00pm
Text Scaling for Open-Ended Survey Responses
Speaker: Will Hobbs
11.07.18 4:00pm
Gender-Inclusive Software
Speaker: Margaret Burnett
10.24.18 4:00pm
Digital News and the Consumption of Information Online
Speaker: Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon
10.10.18 4:00pm
The Future of Learning: How will people learn the skills they need for academe, work, and life?
Speaker: Daniel Russell
09.19.18 4:00pm
Hybrid Body Craft: Convergence of Function, Culture and Aesthetics on the Skin Surface
Speaker: Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao
02.28.18 4:00pm
A Boundless, Fluid and Programmable Reality
Speaker: Misha Sra
02.14.18 4:00pm
Interactive Systems based on Electrical Muscle Stimulation
Speaker: Pedro Lopes
02.09.18 4:00pm
Design for new technology users in the Global South
Speaker: Nithya Sambasivan
01.31.18 4:00pm
Tribal Networks and Diffusion of News on Social Media
Speaker: Soroush Vosoughi
01.24.18 4:00pm
Looking Around Rather Than Ahead: 
Design at the Periphery of Contemporary High Tech Development
Speaker: Sarah Fox
11.29.17 4:00pm
Broadening Participation in Computing: Breaking Down Barriers and Increasing Access
Speaker: Juan Gilbert
11.21.17 4:30pm
Using Internet data to measure migrations
Speaker: Bogdan State
11.08.17 4:00pm
What is the Cyber Offense-Defense Balance? Conceptions, Causes, and Assessment
Speaker: Rebecca Slayton
10.25.17 4:00pm
Listeners' Choices and the First Amendment
Speaker: James Grimmelmann
10.11.17 4:00pm
Speed Dating: Providing a Menu of Possible Futures
Speaker: Jodi Forlizzi
09.27.17 4:00pm
Models and Algorithms for the Design and Operation of Bike-sharing Systems
Speaker: David Shmoys
09.13.17 4:00pm
Transformations in Virtual Reality
Speaker: Andrea Won
08.23.17 4:00pm
Exploring Design Issues and Potentials in Smart Cities Using Participatory Methods
Speaker: Carl DiSalvo
03.08.17 4:00pm
Intervention Science: Making Online Learning Work for Everyone
Speaker: René Kizilcec
03.03.17 4:00pm
Learning to be a good teammate: Algorithms for Efficient Human-Robot Collaboration
Speaker: Dr. Bradley Hayes
02.22.17 4:00pm
Peeking into the On-Demand Economy
Speaker: Ming Yin
02.14.17 4:15pm
Antisocial Computing: Explaining and Predicting Negative Behavior Online
Speaker: Justin Cheng
02.07.17 4:15pm
Declarative Interaction Design for Data Visualization
Speaker: Arvind Satyanarayan
02.01.17 4:00pm
Computational Design and Fabrication to Augment the Physical World
Speaker: Xiang (Anthony) Chen
01.27.17 2:30pm
An Introduction to Understandable and Usable User Interfaces
Speaker: Kyle Harms
11.30.16 4:00pm
Satisficing Semantic Search: A Theoretical Approach to Analyzing Text in Networks
Speaker: Drew Margolin
11.07.16 1:30pm
Why are Some Teams Smarter Than Others? The Dynamics of Collective Intelligence in Teams
Speaker: Anita Williams Woolley
10.26.16 1:30pm
How Language Shapes Word of Mouth's Impact
Speaker: Jonah Berger
10.05.16 4:00pm
Maria Fernandez, Wednesday October 5th
Speaker: Maria Fernandez
06.04.16 12:15pm
Interacting with Personal Fabrication Machines
Speaker: Stefanie Mueller
03.15.16 4:15pm
Optimal Social Decision Making
Speaker: Shah Nisarg
03.07.16 2:45pm
Adaptive Crowd Algorithms for Open-Ended Problems
Speaker: Lydia Chilton
02.23.16 4:15pm
Teaching Old Sensors New Tricks
Speaker: Mayank Goel
02.22.16 12:15pm
Investigating practices of making and living with interactive artifacts through design ethnography and research-through-design
Speaker: Audrey Desjardins
02.19.16 2:30pm
Prototyping Potential Futures: Researching Virtual Possessions through Design
Speaker: Dr. William Odom
02.17.16 4:00pm
How Machines Learn to Discriminate
Speaker: Solon Barocas
02.03.16 4:00pm
Revealing Nuances in Data at Scale
Speaker: Jeff Rzeszotarski
12.09.15 4:15pm
Adventures in Crowdsourcing
Speaker: Panos Ipeirotis
12.02.15 4:00pm
Three perspectives on data
Speaker: Erik Anderson, Cristian Mizil, Karen Levy
11.18.15 4:00pm
Why Do We Build?
Speaker: Tanzeem Choudhury, Dan Cosley, and François Guimbretière
11.04.15 4:00pm
Leveraging Online Crowds to Catalyze Individual Design Thinking
Speaker: Brian Bailey
10.21.15 4:00pm
Living in a Culture of "Big Data
Speaker: Danah Boyd
10.14.15 4:00pm
Pressed for Time: Everyday Life in the Digital Age
Speaker: Judy Wajcman
10.07.15 4:00pm
The Now-or-Never Bottleneck: A Fundamental Constraint on Language
Speaker: Morten H. Christiansen
09.23.15 4:00pm
Communicating Self in a Networked World
Speaker: Natalie Bazarova
09.16.15 4:00pm
Artificial Intelligence and Predicting Tax Evasion
Speaker: Jacob Rosen
05.13.15 4:00pm
Calibration: Games, Humans and Big data
Speaker: Dean Foster
05.08.15 4:00pm
Privacy as Contextual Integrity: Bridging Ethics and Technology
Speaker: Helen Nissenbaum
03.20.15 4:00pm
Designs for Foraging
Speaker: Carl DiSalvo
03.06.15 3:00pm
Peer effects and interventions in networks: Causal inference with and without experiments
Speaker: Dean Eckles
03.04.15 4:00pm
Structuring Peer Interactions for Learning at Scale
Speaker: Chinmay Kulkarni
03.02.15 12:15pm
Designing Mobile Technologies for Underserved Communities
Speaker: Nicola Dell
02.27.15 3:00pm
Visual Data Analysis: Perceptual Foundations and Biomedical Applications
Speaker: Çağatay Demiralp
02.25.15 4:00pm
Learnersourcing: Improving Video Learning with Large-Scale Interaction Data
Speaker: Juho Kim
02.18.15 4:00pm
Outsourcing Tasks Online: Matching Supply and Demand on Peer-to-Peer Internet Platforms (joint with Zoe Cullen)
Speaker: Chiara Farronata
02.09.15 12:00pm
Crowd-Agents: Creating Crowd-Powered Interactive Systems
Speaker: Walter S. Lasecki
02.05.15 4:15pm
Unlocking Interaction via Pixel-Based Reverse Engineering
Speaker: Morgan Dixon
02.04.15 4:00pm
This productive life
Speaker: Melissa Gregg
01.28.15 4:00am
Understanding and Reducing the User Burdens in Applications for Health and Wellbeing
Speaker: Julie A. Kientz
01.23.15 1:30pm
Categorical Opportunity, Eclectic Authenticity, and Gourmet Food Trucks: Advancing Organizational Research with Data from Social Media
Speaker: Todd Schifeling
01.21.15 4:00pm
“The Automation of Compliance: Techno-Legal Regulation in the U.S. Trucking Industry”
Speaker: Karen Levy
11.19.14 4:00pm
A Not Quite Random Walk, Steps Towards a Mundane Sociology of Algorithms
Speaker: Malte Ziewitz
11.05.14 4:00pm
Technology of Value: Principles, Policy and Practice
Speaker: Batya Friedman
10.22.14 4:00pm
Human-Centered Principles for Designing Robotic Technologies
Speaker: Bilge Mutlu
10.15.14 4:00pm
Leveraging Computational Social Science to address Grand Societal Challenges
Speaker: Noshir Contractor
10.10.14 3:30pm
Wiki Surveys
Speaker: Matt Slaganik
09.17.14 4:00pm
Eyes-Free Input on Mobile Devices
Speaker: Shiri Azenkot
09.10.14 4:15pm
Long-run Learning in Games of Cooperation
Speaker: Duncan Watts
05.07.14 4:00pm
Language and Social Dynamics
Speaker: Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
03.18.14 4:15pm
Designing Engaging Learning Experiences
Speaker: Erik Andersen
03.14.14 2:45pm
Designing to Support Strong-Tie Relationships
Speaker: Lana Yarosh
03.12.14 4:00pm
Regulating Robots: Law & Ethics for an Emerging Technology
Speaker: Peter Asaro
03.07.14 2:45pm
Representation Technologies
Speaker: Tapan Parikh
02.26.14 4:00pm
Designing Visual Analysis Methods
Speaker: Jason Chuang
02.13.14 4:15pm
Building Embedded Sensor Systems to Bring Ubicomp to Life
Speaker: Gabe Cohn
02.07.14 3:00pm
Statistical Text Analysis for Social Science
Speaker: Brendan O’Connor
01.29.14 4:00pm
Restoring Public Information Infrastructure and Post-Disaster Information Practices
Speaker: Megan Finn
11.20.13 4:00pm
Towards HCI
Speaker: Beki Grinter
10.28.13 12:15pm
Ubicomp and health: Merging research agendas
Speaker: Gregory Abowd
10.16.13 4:00pm
Curio: Re-thinking Citizen Science from the Scientist's Perspective
Speaker: Edith Law
10.09.13 4:00pm
Multi-Armed Bandits and the Web
Speaker: Robert D. Kleinberg
10.02.13 4:00pm
“Language and Social Dynamics in Online Communities”
Speaker: Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil
09.25.13 4:00pm
“Counting & Coordinating: How people track their personal finances”
Speaker: Jofish Kaye
08.26.13 3:00pm
“Secular vs. Islamist Polarization in Egypt on Twitter”
Speaker: Ingmar Weber
03.28.13 3:00pm
Information at Work: Developing Heuristics to Anticipate When Technology Fails
Speaker: Gina Neff
03.27.13 4:00pm
Designing for Teams
Speaker: Malte Jung
03.11.13 12:15pm
Design Mining the Web
Speaker: Ranjitha Kumar
03.06.13 4:00pm
Enabling Data Enthusiasts: Visual Analysis Tools for Big Data
Speaker: "Leo" Zhicheng Liu
02.28.13 3:00pm
Privacy in Europe: Initial Data on Governance Choices and Corporate Practices.
Speaker: Deidre Mulligan
02.20.13 4:00pm
Rating in action: Governance, accountability, and web-based patient feedback
Speaker: Malte Ziewitz
02.13.13 4:00pm
Building scholarly methodologies with large-scale automated topic analysis.
Speaker: David Mimno
02.05.13 12:00pm
Mobile Health (mHealth): from smart phone apps and sensor streams to behavioral biomarkers
Speaker: Deborah Estrin
01.23.13 3:45pm
“Time for Events: Telling The World's Stories from Social Media”
Speaker: Mor Naaman
01.31.12 12:00pm to 11.16.12 12:00pm
2012 Colloquium Speakers
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