Good Systems Postdoc Research Presentation Series - Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Using Language Similarities in Retrieval
May 4, 2022, noon to 12:45 p.m.
Most of the Web is published in languages not accessible to many potential users who can read and understand only their local languages. Previous Information Retrieval (IR) approaches, particularly those used in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) and Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR), have focused on the translation of either queries or documents in the retrieval pipeline.
Good Systems Postdoc Research Presentation Series - Augmenting Online Cooperation with Unifying Social Feedback
April 20, 2022, noon to 12:45 p.m.
Many of our societal challenges from sustainability to democracy and community building will require our continued cooperation. With the prevalence of data rich digital technologies, this cooperation increasingly happens online where data-based feedback supports our decisions and people are often remote, asynchronous, and anonymous that has resulted in deindividuation and antinormative behavior.
Provost’s Cluster and Interdisciplinary Hiring Initiative Lightning Talk Series - Good Systems: Building Technology Ethics Expertise
April 19, 2022, 11 a.m. to noon
Hear from faculty in the Global Internet, Media, and (Dis)Information and Good Systems: Building Technology Ethics Expertise clusters.
Planet Texas 2050 Resilience Roundtable
April 13, 2022, noon to 1:30 p.m.
This panel is the fourth in Planet Texas 2050’s “resilience roundtable” series exploring various ideas and issues surrounding the City of Austin’s recently adopted Climate Equity Plan.
Planet Texas 2050 Research Symposium: A Week of Resilience in Action
April 11 to 14, 2022, All Day
Planet Texas 2050’s spring research symposium takes place in April with a week of multiple presentation formats and opportunities for dialog and exchange. Resilience Research in Action highlights the work of Planet Texas 2050 project teams and partners, as well as that of other researchers and students exploring diverse and intersecting aspects of resilience.
Good Systems Annual Symposium: Day two
April 8, 2022, 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Day two of the Good Systems Annual Symposium 2022. With Core Research Project presentations and panel discussions on Putting Good Systems into Practice and Smart Cities.
Good Systems Annual Symposium: Day one
April 7, 2022, 2 to 5 p.m.
Day one of the Good Systems Annual Symposium 2022. With keynote Speech and Q&A,
"AI for Social Impact: Results from Deployments for Public Health and Conversation", with
Milind Tambe, and Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University, and Director of AI for Social Good, Google Research (India).
Good Systems Postdoc Research Presentation Series - Using Archival Expertise to Identify Coordinated inauthentic Behavior
April 6, 2022, noon to 12:45 p.m.
This talk applies archival concepts such as accountability and chain of custody to a forensic reconstruction of disinformation narratives circulated around the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Good Systems Postdoc Research Presentation Series - Effect of social correction on vaccine skeptics’ intention to take a COVID-19 vaccine
March 23, 2022, noon to 12:45 p.m.
Social correction is one way of correcting health misinformation on social media, especially during health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic.