A look at socially intelligent computing
Haym Hirsh of the National Science Foundation and Rutgers University will explore “Socially Intelligent Computing” during a talk sponsored by the School of Information and the Division of Computer Science and Engineering of the College of Engineering.
Hirsh’s talk will be from 3-4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13 in the Atkins Room, 1202 SI North. All are welcome. A cookie reception will be held beforehand at 2:30.
The speaker is professor and past chair of computer science at Rutgers University and director of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. His research is on foundations and applications of machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval. He received his bachelor’s degree from the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments at UCLA and his master’s and doctoral degrees from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University.
Hirsh has provided the following abstract:
“Innovations in computing have transformed our world. Information and communication technologies now bring together people and computers in powerful new ways and are creating richly interconnected worlds that demonstrate new forms of collaboration, communication, and emergent intelligence that were not previously achievable by people or computers alone. Our successes pose a new set of challenges that arise from contemplating systems comprised integrally of both computers and people, an area that I call “socially intelligent computing.” By socially intelligent computing I refer to efforts in widely disparate realms that attempt to understand the capabilities and limitations that systems of people and computers together possess, and to develop a practical understanding of the purposeful design of such systems. In this talk I will outline various threads that are advancing our knowledge of socially intelligent computing, directions for the future, and programs at the National Science Foundation that contribute to such efforts.”
