We are excited to announce a series of upcoming campus visits. If you're interested in being involved in a discussion (or lunch) with our visitors, please register here.
4/7/26 - Jaron Lanier - Humane Computing
Readings:
You Are Not A Gadget - Jaron Lanier
Who Owns the Future? - Jaron Lanier
The dangerous fantasies driving the quest for super-intelligent AI - Jaron Lanier
4/9/26 - Mark Parman
Readings:
Leading From Your Own Medicine: A Cherokee View of Leadership - Mark Parman
4/20/26 - Mark van der Laan - Unbiased Reasoning About Cause and Effect
Readings:
Targeted maximum likelihood estimation for a binary treatment: A tutorial - Luque‐Fernandez et al.
Demystifying statistical learning based on efficient influence functions - Hines et al.
5/4/26 - Tajana Rosing - Efficient Computing
Readings:
A Theoretical Perspective on Hyperdimensional Computing - Thomas et al.
NNPIM: A Processing In-Memory Architecture for Neural Network Acceleration - Gupta et al.
HDnn-PIM: Efficient in Memory Design of Hyperdimensional Computing with Feature Extraction - Dutta et al.
Are you interested in building and maintaining AI systems that benefit people and the planet?
Please join us at our weekly "Appropriate Computing" reading and discussion group: Fridays 12-1 in SBS 405. See topic calendar below.
2/27/26: Medical Applications of AI (slides)
2/20/26: Curriculum draft: Bauhaus wheel, Ulm School of Design
2/13/26: Planning for upcoming events
2/6/26: Planning for upcoming events
1/30/26: Planning for upcoming events
1/23/26: Planning for upcoming events
1/16/26: Professional Development Day Talk (slides)
12/19/25: General Discussion
12/12/25: Reading list for next term, brainstorming list of topics for professional day presentation.
12/5/25: Demystifying statistical learning based on efficient influence functions (paper)
11/28/25: No meeting
11/21/25: No meeting
11/14/25: Tutorial in Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation (paper)
11/7/25: Medical focus (webinar)
10/31/25: Halloween (no meeting)
10/24/25: Inappropriate Computing (slides)
10/17/25: What is Neuromorphic Computing?
10/10/25: AI Policy and Public Schools: Beyond Fear & Hype
10/3/25: AI in medicine (slides)
9/26/25: AI in education
9/19/25: No meeting
9/12/25: What is appropriate computing?
9/5/25: AI development trajectories
8/19/25: Planning meeting
7/14/25: Appropriate Computing Certificate design
7/7/25: Applications of AI in medicine, healthcare, agriculture, and environmental stewardship
6/30/25: Finetuning
6/9/25: Voice models
6/2/25: Multimodal models
5/26/25: Memorial Day
5/19/25: Vision
5/12/25: Diffusion
5/05/25: Code Generation
4/28/25: Agents
4/21/25: Retrieval Augmented Generation
4/14/25: Prompting, ICL & Chain of Thought
4/7/25: Benchmarks
3/31/25: Cesar Chavez Day
3/24/25: Slice of AI and Pie talk by Alana Chin
3/17/25: Spring Break
3/10/25: Fritz Schumacher Documentary and Appropedia
3/3/25: Frontier LLMS
DeepSeek R1: https://github.com/deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1/blob/main/DeepSeek_R1.pdf
BERT: https://huggingface.co/blog/modernbert, https://www.answer.ai/posts/colbert-pooling.html
2/24/25: First two chapters of Small is Beautiful, https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-gpt2/
2/17/25: Introduction and plan for remainder of term