Event Highlights: The 2023 Trustworthy AI for Education Lab Summit
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The Trustworthy AI Lab for Education (TALE) Summit at Notre Dame was held on December 1, 2023 and brought together a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, computer scientists, learning scientists, and STEM education researchers across campus as well as external partners, to decipher how to build effective and trusted AI solutions for education.
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For those that were unable to attend, poster abstracts and full recordings of the event are now available on the Lucy Family Institute for Data & Society website.
Additional spring virtual sessions will be announced soon!
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The Lucy Institute welcomes a new employee
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| Kapoor joins the team of AETL within the Lucy Family Institute. In his role, he provides valuable support in collecting and analyzing data for the lab and for institute-sponsored initiatives that fuel industry innovation.
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| Soc(AI)ety Seminars Upcoming Session:
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January 24, 2024 | 3:30pm
Jordan Hall Auditorium Rm 105
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Featuring, Moshe Vardi
University Professor and the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering, Rice University
To ensure that we have ample refreshments, RSVP is highly encouraged for each event. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.
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| Lucy Training Workshop: Introduction to R
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January 25, 2024 | 1:00-2:00pm (Zoom)
Jordan Hall Auditorium Rm 105
Deadline to register: January 22, 2024
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R is the most widely used programming language for statistical computing and graphics. It is free and open source. The workshop will demonstrate the scripting language and what it can offer as an analytical tool.
No prior knowledge is necessary. This workshop will be offered via zoom and is open to undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. The deadline to register is January 22.
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| Lucy Training Workshop: Introduction to Python
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January 25, 2024 | 3:00pm
246 Hesburgh Library
Deadline to register: January 22, 2024
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Python is open-sourced, interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language. It is easy to learn and very user-friendly because of its simple syntax and readable code. The best way to learn a programming language is to do something useful, therefore this hands-on introductory workshop will cover:
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- Basic data types
- Creating and assigning values to a variable
- Using a function
- Import a Python library and use its functions
- Read tabular data from a csv file
- Select individual values and subsections from data
- Perform operations on arrays of data
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To attend, please register by January 22.
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| Lucy Training Workshop: Tidyverse in R
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February 1, 2024 | 1:00pm
246 Hesburgh Library
Deadline to register: January 29, 2024
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This workshop series is designed to give an introduction to the Tidyverse packages in R. Tidyverse is a set of R packages that comprehensively deal with data wrangling and visualization using a common syntax.
The workshop will cover some of the most common packages and functions in Tidyverse using a variety of social science data.
To attend, please register by January 29.
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| Lucy Training Workshop: Linear Regression in R
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February 1, 2024 | 3:00-5:00pm
246 Hesburgh Library
Deadline to register: January 29, 2024
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This workshop is designed as an introduction to linear regression in R. Linear regression is considered the “backbone” of quantitative social science and provides the grounding and framework for understanding advanced regression models. The topics covered during the workshop include:
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- Wrangling data in R
- Model fit, statistical significance, and regression coefficient interpretation
- Visualizations of regression coefficients
- Testing OLS assumptions
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To attend, please register by January 29.
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| Book Launch: A History of Fake Things on the Internet by Walter Scheirer
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February 2, 2024 | 4:30-6:00pm
Oak Room, South Dining Hall
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As all aspects of our social & informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is “real” and what is digitally fabricated grows ever thinner—and that fake content has undeniable real-world consequences.
Join University of Notre Dame professor, Walter Scheirer, for the launch of his new book, A History of Fake Things on the Internet.
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| Call for Proposals – Notre Dame-IBM TechEthics
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Deadline: February 16, 2024
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The Notre Dame-IBM Technology Ethics Lab is excited to announce the opening of its annual Call for Proposals on the topic “Ethics of large-scale models.” The Tech Ethics Lab welcomes creative proposals from researchers and practitioners that suggest applied solutions to the ethical challenges associated with these models. The deadline to submit applications is February 16, 2024.
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The Lucy Family Institute is currently recruiting expert researchers and professionals in the fields of data science and artificial intelligence who are committed to using data science as a force for good. For more information on these positions, and to apply, please visit the Lucy Family Institute website.
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"The Lucy Family Institute will be an intellectual and interdisciplinary beacon that produces impactful and equitable data-driven solutions for the good of society."
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– Nitesh Chawla, Founding Director
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