BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20231207T165743Z UID:228093DB-E7B4-40A4-AD96-7F4647CAB445 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20231130T215600 DESCRIPTION:Boston\, Dallas\, Foothills\, Montreal\, and Northern Virginia/ Washington Chapters of IEEE Computer Society\, Northern Virginia/Washingto n/Baltimore Chapter of IEEE Society on Social Implications of Technology\, and GBC/ACM\n\n7pm Thursday November 30 2023\n\nMIT Room 32-G449 (Kiva) a nd online via Zoom\n\nEngineering Ecosystems with AI\n\nSandy Pentland\n\n Please register in advance for this seminar even if you plan to attend in person at\n\nhttps://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/5616991972922/WN_4z6 KkwZbRxq_WpTR6RrEBA\n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.\n\nIndicate on th e registration form if you plan to attend in person. This will help us det ermine whether the room is close to reaching capacity.\n\nWe may make some auxiliary material such as slides and access to the recording available a fter the seminar to people who have registered.\n\nAbstract:\n\nOur societ y is having difficulties engineering heterogeneous systems of people and t echnology. For instance\, our systems for dealing with pandemics\, climate change\, and financial stress have been less than completely successful\, in significant part because of unanticipated human behaviors. This talk w ill cover new approaches to engineering ecosystems that better integrate h uman behavior and discuss how new technologies like Large Language Models (LLMs) can help.\n\nBio:\n\nProfessor Alex 'Sandy' Pentland directs MIT Co nnection Science\, an MIT-wide initiative\, and previously helped create a nd direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited computational scientists in the world. Forbes declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the world" along with Googl e founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the United States. He is on the Board of the UN Foundations' Global Partnership for Sustainable Develo pment Data\, co-led the World Economic Forum discussion in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDPR\, and was one of the UN Secretary Genera l's "Data Revolutionaries" helping to forge the transparency and accountab ility mechanisms in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. He has receive d numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Award from Harvard Busin ess Review\, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet from DARPA\, and the Bra ndeis Award for work in privacy. Recent invited keynotes include annual me etings of OECD\, G20\, World Bank\, and JP Morgan.\n\nHe is a member of ad visory boards for the UN Secretary General\, the UN Foundation\, Consumers Union\, and OECD\, and formerly the American Bar Association\, Google\, A T&T\, and Nissan. He is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Engineeri ng and council member within the World Economic Forum.\n\nOver the years S andy has advised more than 80 PhD students. Together Sandy and his student s have pioneered computational social science\, organizational engineering \, wearable computing (Google Glass)\, image understanding\, and modern bi ometrics. His most recent books are Building the New Economy and Trusted D ata\, both published by MIT Press\, Social Physics\, published by Penguin Press\, and Honest Signals\, published by MIT Press.\n\nThis meeting of th e Boston (and other) Chapters of the IEEE Computer Society will be hybrid (in person and online)\, part of getting back to normal after the COVID-19 lockdown.\n\nUp-to-date information about this and other talks is availab le online at https://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to receive updated status information about this talk and informational email s about future talks at https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs\, our self-administered mailing list.\n\nBoston\, Massachusetts\, United St ates\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/387802 LOCATION:Boston\, Massachusetts\, United States\, Virtual: https://events.v tools.ieee.org/m/387802 ORGANIZER:rkrish@ieee.org SEQUENCE:2 SUMMARY:Social Implications of Technology URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/387802 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><h2><span style="font-family: 'Times'\,serif\ ; color: black\;">Boston\, Dallas\, Foothills\, Montreal\, and Northern Vi rginia/Washington Chapters of IEEE Computer Society\, Northern Virginia/Wa shington/Baltimore Chapter of IEEE Society on Social Implications of Techn ology\, and GBC/ACM</span></h2>\n<h4>7pm Thursday November 30 2023</h4>\n< p>MIT Room 32-G449 (Kiva) and online via Zoom</p>\n<h4>Engineering Ecosyst ems with AI</h4>\n<h4>Sandy Pentland</h4>\n<h4>Please register in advance for this seminar even if you plan to attend in person at</h4>\n<h4>&nbsp\; <a href="https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/5616991972922/WN_4z6KkwZ bRxq_WpTR6RrEBA">https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/5616991972922/WN _4z6KkwZbRxq_WpTR6RrEBA</a></h4>\n<p><strong>After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webi nar.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>Indicate on the registration form if you pla n to attend in person. This will help us determine whether the room is clo se to reaching capacity.</strong></p>\n<p><strong>We may make some auxilia ry material such as slides and access to the recording available after the seminar to people who have registered.</strong></p>\n<p>Abstract:</p>\n<p >Our society is having difficulties engineering heterogeneous systems of p eople and technology. For instance\, our systems for dealing with pandemic s\, climate change\, and financial stress have been less than completely s uccessful\, in significant part because of unanticipated human behaviors. This talk will cover new approaches to engineering ecosystems that better integrate human behavior and discuss how new technologies like Large Langu age Models (LLMs) can help.</p>\n<p>Bio:</p>\n<p>Professor Alex 'Sandy' Pe ntland directs MIT Connection Science\, an MIT-wide initiative\, and previ ously helped create and direct the MIT Media Lab and the Media Lab Asia in India. He is one of the most-cited computational scientists in the world. Forbes declared him one of the "7 most powerful data scientists in the wo rld" along with Google founders and the Chief Technical Officer of the Uni ted States. He is on the Board of the UN Foundations' Global Partnership f or Sustainable Development Data\, co-led the World Economic Forum discussi on in Davos that led to the EU privacy regulation GDPR\, and was one of th e UN Secretary General's "Data Revolutionaries" helping to forge the trans parency and accountability mechanisms in the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. He has received numerous awards and prizes such as the McKinsey Awa rd from Harvard Business Review\, the 40th Anniversary of the Internet fro m DARPA\, and the Brandeis Award for work in privacy. Recent invited keyno tes include annual meetings of OECD\, G20\, World Bank\, and JP Morgan.</p >\n<p>He is a member of advisory boards for the UN Secretary General\, the UN Foundation\, Consumers Union\, and OECD\, and formerly the American Ba r Association\, Google\, AT&amp\;T\, and Nissan. He is a member of the U.S . National Academy of Engineering and council member within the World Econ omic Forum.</p>\n<p>Over the years Sandy has advised more than 80 PhD stud ents. Together Sandy and his students have pioneered computational social science\, organizational engineering\, wearable computing (Google Glass)\, image understanding\, and modern biometrics. His most recent books are Bu ilding the New Economy and Trusted Data\, both published by MIT Press\, So cial Physics\, published by Penguin Press\, and Honest Signals\, published by MIT Press.</p>\n<p>This meeting of the Boston (and other) Chapters of the IEEE Computer Society will be hybrid (in person and online)\, part of getting back to normal after the COVID-19 lockdown.</p>\n<p>Up-to-date inf ormation about this and other talks is available online at <a href="https: //ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/">https://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/compute r/</a>. You can sign up to receive updated status information about this t alk and informational emails about future talks at <a href="https://mailma n.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs">https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listin fo/ieee-cs</a>\, our self-administered mailing list.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n <h2><span style="font-family: 'Times'\,serif\; color: black\;">&nbsp\;</sp an></h2> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR