2023-24 Beyond the Web Speaker Series, presented by The Ostrom Workshop and Hamilton Lugar School
Hear from innovators and scholars across the humanities and in media, culture, computing, and cybersecurity — on the social implications of AI in a global context. Speakers will tackle tough questions, like:
How do artificial and human intelligence use and differ from each other?
How does AI change who and what we are as human beings?
What will each do that the other can never do?
What are the implications for privacy and global cybersecurity?
How does AI help or hurt the ways we form commons?
What is IN the works, and what will never work?
Upcoming Speaker Don Norman
Who better to talk with about artificial intelligence than the Don Norman, who has been publishing in AI journals since 1973, and where the first multi-layer neural nets came out of his laboratory in the 1980s? He wrote Things that Make us Smart in 1993 and the lessons there apply to today's "things.” Bring your questions to a lively discussion in our final salon of the year.
Register to Attend"What AI Becomes is Up to Us"
with Don Norman, Pioneering Cognitive Scientist, Engineer, Designer
Don Norman is famous for pushing doors when they should be pulled. In his pioneering book on human-centered design, The Design of Everyday Things, Norman says that if anything in life should be easy, it should be doors, giving rise to the term "Norman Doors." He has been a professor and Apple VP. Among many honors, he has received three honorary degrees, and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His 21 books include Emotional Design, Design of Everyday Things, and Design for a Better World: Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered. His charity, The Don Norman Design Award rewards early career practitioners who practice what he preaches.
Tuesday, April 9
Noon-1:30pm Zoom and Hamilton Lugar School (Global Lounge GA1050)
Speakers
All events take place on Tuesdays at noon.
Andrew McLuhan
poet, author, founder, and director of The McLuhan Institute (TMI).
Tuesday, September 19
Marina Zannoli
AI product leader and former Chief of Staff of Meta’s FAIR lab
Tuesday, October 17
Clay Shirky
Author, NYU professor and Vice Provost for AI and Technology in Education
Tuesday, December 5
Dame Wendy Hall
University of Southampton Regius Professor of Computer Science, Associate Vice President (International Engagement), Executive Director of the Web Science Institute
Tuesday, January 23
Bruce Schneier
Cybersecurity Guru, author of many books, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and Chief of Security Architecture at Inrupt, Tim Berners-Lee's company
Tuesday, February 20
Jeff Jarvis is the Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at CUNY's Craig Newmark School of Journalism (soon emeritus).
Tuesday, March 19
Don Norman is famous for pushing doors when they should be pulled: “Norman Doors.” He has been a professor, an Apple VP. He has lots of honors: e.g., three honorary degrees, member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences).
Tuesday, April 9