2025-08-19 22:48:21
Brad A. Myers is a Professor and Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also the principal investigator of CMU's Natural Programming project, which studies how people perform tasks and then design languages, application programming interfaces, and environments around these natural tendencies. Myers' interests include interaction techniques, making programming easier, user interface software, handheld devices, intelligent user interfaces, and demonstrational interfaces.
Among his many honors, Myers has received the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award and the Alan J. Perlis Award for Imagination in Computer Science. He is also the co-recipient of the 2025 Charles Babbage Institute's (CBI) Human Computer Interaction History Prize for his book Pick, Click, Flick! The Story of Interaction Techniques.
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2025-08-15 01:15:22
Title: Dynamic Neural Network Compression for Scalable AI Deployment
Date: May 29, 2025
Duration: 1HR
SPEAKER
Aditya Challapally
Applied Science Lead
MODERATOR
Chris Pease
Researcher, MIT
ABSTRACT
Deploying cutting-edge AI systems requires large models that can dynamically adapt to changing hardware, bandwidth, and task demands. In this talk, Aditya Challapally, Applied Science Lead at Microsoft and Connected AI Group Lead at MIT Media Lab, will introduce Dynamic Neural Network Compression, a framework for real-time compression and decompression of deep learning models.
Attendees will gain practical insights into new techniques for scalable AI deployment across cloud and edge environments using this new system and file format, Automatic Decompression Instructions (.adi).
2025-08-15 01:08:20
Title: Programming for All A Feminist Case for Language Design
Date: June 26, 2025
Duration: 1HR
SPEAKER
Felienne Hermans
Professor, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
MODERATOR
Mark Guzdial
Professor in Computer Science & Engineering, Director for the Program in Computing for the Arts and Sciences (PCAS)
ABSTRACT
Programming was once a female only field, all “computers” were women, many of color. However, that situation was short-lived, and today we live in a world in which almost all mainstream programming languages are created by men, many of a western background.
In this talk, Felienne Hermans, professor of computer science education at VU, and a creator of programming language Hedy discusses the history of programming languages and gender and her latest paper on feminism and programming language design.
She will reflect upon how programming language construction came to be so male dominated, and how with that also an overwhelming masculine discourse was formed. Drawing on work from feminism and Science and Technology Studies (STS), Hermans explores what the impact of the masculine discourse is for the design of programming languages. She closes the talk with a sketch of what a different world for programming languages could look like, both in the context of her own Hedy language, and beyond.
2025-08-05 21:45:02
Brian Harvey is Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley. His interests include computer science education, curricula, programming languages, and visual languages. Harvey is the author of Computer Science Logo Style, a three-volume computer programming textbook which uses the Logo programming language, and Simply Scheme (with Matthew Wright), an introduction to computer programming for non-majors. With his Berkeley colleague Dan Garcia, Harvey developed the Beauty and Joy of Computing (BJC) curriculum, which began as a national pilot for the CSforAll movement.
Harvey recently received (with Garcia) the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award for his work to bring computing to all students, especially those from historically underrepresented communities.
Read the interview at: https://www.acm.org/articles/people-of-acm/2025/brian-harvey.
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2025-08-04 23:09:21
Yuhang Liu; Yingxue Zhang; Xin Zhang; Ling Tian; Yanhua Li; Jun Luo
2025-08-04 23:04:36
Nabil Anan Orka; Ehtashamul Haque; Md Abdul Awal; Mohammad Ali Moni;
