Event Details

Artificial intelligence and machine-learning systems are presenting new choices in many domains, from healthcare and law through to journalism and advertising. From diets of data, machines produce bodies of knowledge. As this exchange accelerates and becomes more complex, so do the questions. When algorithms make predictions that are beyond human verification, how do we know what results to trust? As we teach machines to discover previously unfathomable answers, do we need to ask better questions? This seminar explores the dimensions of a coming time when pursuing knowledge is an equal partnership between humans and machines.

CBC Nova Scotia reporter Shaina Luck will join as host.

Thursday, March 18, 6:30–7:30 p.m. (ADT)
Livestreamed via Facebook (Dalhousie Alumni & Friends and Dalhousie Computer Science)

Watch here when the event begins:

Tickets

Register to receive event reminders and details on how to join the event. Attendees are invited to participate in the discussion by posting questions and comments during the live event. Although we hope you can watch live, you will also be provided access to the recording following the event.

Presenters

Dr. Nur Zincir-Heywood is a Full Professor of Computer Science, Dalhousie University. Her research interests include machine learning for cyber security, network monitoring, and service analysis. She has published over 200 fully reviewed papers and has been a recipient of several best paper awards. She is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management and International Journal of Network Management. She is a tech columnist of CBC Information Morning and a board member on CS-Can / INFO-Can. She is member of the IEEE and the ACM and a recipient of the 2017 DNS Women Leaders in the Digital Economy Award.

Dr. Derek Reilly (PhD’09) co-directs the Graphics and Experiential Media Lab and is chair of the Graphics, Visualization, and Human-Computer Interaction research cluster in Computer Science at Dalhousie. His lab’s playful, award-winning interactive exhibits have garnered local and national press, and he regularly collaborates with artists and researchers in new media, design, architecture, and the social sciences. Research collaborators and sponsors past and present include Microsoft Research, Snap, Inc., Ubisoft, Ericsson, and Boeing. Dr. Reilly is Editor in Chief for the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society, and regularly publishes and serves on the organizing and program committees in the top venues in the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Augmented/Virtual Reality.

Dr. D. Paul Ralph is an award-winning scientist, author, consultant, and computer science professor at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. His research intersecting software engineering, project management and human-computer interaction has been published in premier software engineering outlets including the International Conference on Software Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He has received funding from Google and The National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. He holds a PhD in Management from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Ralph is also the founding director of the Empirical Standards for Software Engineering Research.

Joining as host, Shaina Luck has been a reporter with CBC Nova Scotia for more than 10 years. She works with local and national programs, the CBC’s Atlantic Investigative Unit, and sometimes teaches at the University of King’s College school of journalism.