Events at: HCIL and Zoom

Talk Title: Evidence Standards and Data Science for All Abstract: Scientific fields often believe that they hold a strong basis of evidence for claims made by their own community. In practice, however, exactly what evidence is expected for a paper to be published or for a hypothesis to become an accepted theory is complex and…

Arvind Satyanarayan, Associate Professor, MIT Title: Intelligence Augmentation through the Lens of Interactive Data Visualization Abstract: Recent rapid advances in machine learning have brought new energy to the future of human + machine partnerships. In this talk, I will use three research threads on interactive data visualization to better understand the balance between automation and…

Students and faculty prepare for upcoming ACM CHI conference talks.   Join us in the lab or on Zoom (register here).

Cognitive Architecture for Operant Conditioning Abstract: In this talk, I will present my research on cognitive architecture for operant conditioning.  To lay the foundation for the discussion, I will start by reviewing the definitions and tests for AI and propose a new definition and the test for human-level artificial intelligence (HLAI).  I claim that the…