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The Women in AI speaker series, a collaboration between the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society and Deloitte, welcomes Sophia Ananiadou, a professor of computer science at the University of Manchester, and director of UK National Centre for Text Mining, which provides tools, resources, systems and infrastructure for biomedicine.
Hey sports fans! Though original plans for an IT community hockey game were cancelled in March 2020, we are now setting our sights on convening a friendly and fun IT@UofT co-ed hockey game to close out the winter term - and you are invited! Join in an opportunity to practice teamwork, one of our ITS core values! Those who don't play hockey are welcome to drop by and cheer us on from the stands.
In this session, David G. Rand explores the role of political polarization in the sharing and belief of misinformation, suggesting that it is possible to supplement forms of professional fact-checking by harnessing the wisdom of crowds. Presenting data from survey experiments, Rand will demonstrate that successful crowdsourcing of misinformation identification may succeed because of, rather than in spite of, polarization and political motivations.
Please join us with Gartner Distinguished Vice President Paul Proctor for this upcoming session designed to help you treat cybersecurity as a business investment for better outcomes.
In this session, Sven Nyholm will discuss “responsibility gaps” and asymmetries regarding praise and blame for outcomes produced by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. Using contemporary examples such as text produced by large language models, accidents caused by self-driving cars, and medical diagnoses and treatment, Nyholm will demonstrate how praise for good outcomes produced by AI is typically harder to deserve than blame for bad outcomes.
Join Connect+Learn for an overview of some recent changes. Updates discussed will include: delete chats from your chat list, more reactions at your fingertips, send your messages later, and delete people to chat with @mention.
Join us for an update on the changing landscape of accessibility standards in Ontario higher education as a new set of provincial recommendations have been drafted to address continuing barriers and improve access for all. Guidance from the Access for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) office will be shared, including a draft outline of U of T’s new proactive framework for discussion.
In this talk, Maren Bennewitz will explore her solutions work utilizing convolutional neural networks and reinforcement learning to enable service robots to act with foresight when navigating human environments.
Join Connect+Learn for a session on Microsoft Power Automate (formerly Microsoft Flow). A service that helps you create automated workflows for repetitive business processes. Power Automate can send reminders on past due tasks, move business data between systems on a schedule, talk to many data sources.
Join Connect+Learn for a session on getting started with Power BI. The session will include use cases for demo, Power BI demo and resources.
Learning objectives of the event includes explore and discuss the historical and current-day realities of anti-Asian racism; Deepen understanding of how anti-Asian racism interacts with other forms of discrimination; Share strategies and resources to identify and address anti-Asian racism in working and learning environments.
