Organizer(s):

Lazaros Gallos, DIMACS

David Pennock, DIMACS

Iraj Saniee, Nokia Bell Labs

Lisa Zhang, Nokia Bell Labs

Description

Important update: The event has been postponed to avoid spread of COVID-19. It will be rescheduled for a future date.

Nokia Bell Labs will host the Spring 2020 DIMACS Mixer in association with its Shannon Luminary Lecture Series featuring a presentation by Manuela Veloso, who will be presented the Shannon Luminary Award. In her Shannon Award lecture, “The Future of Human-AI Interaction,” Veloso will discuss AI, autonomous robots and how the future will see AI seamlessly integrated with human life.

Mixer activities will begin before the lecture and conclude with a reception. The Mixer will give the DIMACS community a chance to learn about new things that are happening at DIMACS,  while meeting new people and reconnecting with others.

Preliminary schedule:

1:15 – 1:30 – Main Entrance 600 Mountain Ave -- Attendees arrive at Murray Hill

1:30 – 1:45 – Oak Room A+B -- Welcome & Introduction

1:45 – 2:15 – Oak Room A+B -- Sean Kennedy Overview and some research topics from Nokia Bell Labs

2:15 – 2:45 – Oak Room A+B -- David Pennock Overview and some research topics from DIMACS

2:45 – 2:55 – Walk from Oak Rooms to the Hamming Auditorium

3:00 – 4:00 – Hamming Auditorium – Prof Veloso’s Shannon Luminary lecture and Q&A

4:00 – 4:10 – Walk back to the Oak Rooms C+D

4:10 – 5:40 – Social, Mixing and Refreshments

About the Shannon Luminary Lecture Series:

The Shannon Luminary Lecture Series at Nokia Bell Labs is named in honor of Claude Shannon – the father of information theory and arguably of all communications and networked systems. The series is comprised of speakers who are luminaries in a wide diversity of fields and who will share their perspective on the most important technologies, science, engineering, mathematics – and even more aesthetic matters – that will transform human existence in the next decades.

Please register below. Space will be limited.

Speaker Bio:

Manuela Veloso, PhD, is the head of AI Research at JP Morgan and Herbert A Simon University Professor at the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. An internationally renowned expert in the fields of artificial intelligence and robotics, Veloso is former head of the Carnegie Mellon Machine Learning Department, past president of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and co-founder of the RoboCup Federation, where her robot soccer teams have been crowned world champions on numerous occasions.

One of the most intriguing aspects of Veloso’s work is her research into humanizing the AI systems and robots with which we will eventually interact on a daily basis. In an interview with The Verge in 2016, Veloso said that AI systems must learn to explain their decisions and actions, rather than present an opaque and inscrutable face to humanity. By revealing why and how they reach their conclusions, AI systems can be better understood, better trained and ultimately earn the trust of humans.  

Her lecture on “The Future of Human-AI Interaction” promises to be a fascinating exploration of this critical landscape.

Presented in association with the DIMACS Mixer Series.