Columbia Entrepreneurship

Information Session: The 2019 EdTech Design Challenge | Brazil
2018-10-15 18:00 - 20:00 UTC
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIA STUDENTS
REGISTER FOR INFO SESSION HERE
Held at the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio: 490 Riverside Drive

The 2019 Ed Tech Design Challenge semester-long design challenge where 12 Columbia University students from across disciplines will work with clients solving deeply entrenched K-12 education challenges in Brazil.
Includes sponsored trip to Sao Paulo, Brazil in January 2019
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14 week SIPA design course @ the Design Studio
Teaching Team: Sarah Holloway (SIPA) and Joseph Heritage & Adam Royalty (The Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio)
Applications are due October 31
Apply here!

Check out last year’s 2017-2018 EdTech Design Challenge Cohort

Truth-Seeking in the Age of Disinformation
2018-10-12 13:00 - 14:30
Friday, October 12, 2018
1:00PM – 2:30PM
Pupin Hall, Room 428

“Truth-Seeking in the Age of Disinformation”

Abstract: Given the constantly growing proliferation of false claims online in recent years, there has been also a growing research interest in automatically distinguishing false rumors from factually true claims. In this talk, we will present several related problems. First, in the context of investigative journalism, we will address the problem of automatically identifying which claims in a political debate are most worthy and should be prioritized for fact-checking. We will then present a general-purpose deep learning framework for fully automatic fact checking using external sources, which taps the potential of the entire Web as a knowledge source to confirm or reject a claim. We will further extend this framework to the context of community question answering, where the goal is to decide whether an answer to a factual question is factually true or false. We will also cover some related problems such as stance detection, trust-worthiness estimation for Web sites, political ideology, bias and propaganda detection, as well as finding seminar users and opinion manipulation trolls in news community forums.

Bio: Dr. Preslav Nakov is a Senior Scientist at the Qatar Computing Research Institute, HBKU. His research interests include computational linguistics and natural language processing, machine translation, question answering, fact-checking, sentiment analysis, lexical semantics, Web as a corpus, and biomedical text processing.

At QCRI, he leads a project whose aim is to develop a news aggregation application to limit the effect of fake news, propaganda and media bias by helping users step out of their bubble and achieve a healthy news diet. He is also a co-PI of an MIT-QCRI collaboration project on Arabic Speech and Language Processing for Cross-Language Informatio n Search and Fact Verification, and he was a co-PI of another MIT-QCRI collaboration project on Speech and Language Processing for Arabic (2013-2016).

Preslav Nakov received his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley (supported by a Fulbright grant and a UC Berkeley fellowship), and a MSc degree from the Sofia University. He was a Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore, a honorary lecturer in the Sofia University, and a research staff in the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

Foundations for Research Computing Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. Lorena Barba, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University
2018-10-11 16:00 - 18:00
OPEN TO ALL

REGISTER HERE

Thursday, October 11, 2018
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Lecture
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Reception
Brown Institute | 2nd Floor, Pulitzer Hall (2950 Broadway)

Lorena A. Barba is an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. She holds a PhD in aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology and BSc/PEng degrees in mechanical engineering from Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile. Her research includes computational fluid dynamics, high-performance computing, computational biophysics, and animal flight.

An international leader in computational science and engineering, she is also a long-standing advocate of open source software for science and education, and she is well known for her courses and open educational resources. She was a recipient of the 2016 Leamer-Rosenthal Award for Open Social Sciences, and in 2017, was nominated and received an honorable mention in the Open Education Awards for Excellence of the Open Education Consortium.

Prof. Barba received the NSF Faculty Early CAREER award (2012), was named CUDA Fellow by NVIDIA Corp. (2012), is an awardee of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) First Grant program (2007), is an Amelia Earhart Fellow of the Zonta Foundation (1999) and a leader in computational science and engineering internationally. She is a member of the Board of Directors for the NumFOCUS non-profit, and a member of the editorial board for IEEE/AIP Computing in Science and Engineering, The Journal of Open Source Software, and The ReScience Journal.

Information Session: Lab-to-Market Accelerators | Life Sciences
2018-10-11 10:00 - 11:00
Join the information session at Columbia University Medical Center, 622 W 168th Street, PH10-204 (Conf Room)
BRINGING YOUR IDEAS TO LIFE…
Moving cutting-edge university research out of the lab to benefit society
Accelerator programs aim to catalyze innovation via support to interdisciplinary engineer/scientist/clinician teams, with the goal of increasing the potential for private investment towards continued product development, clinical testing, and, ultimately, improved patient care and healthcare outcomes.
Selected teams work closely with business, legal and regulatory experts to define commercially-relevant hypotheses for research towards technical and business proof-of-concepts.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Project funding, education and support for interdisciplinary teams working to advance innovative ideas with the potential to positively impact health outcomes.
THERAPEUTICS / DRUG DEVELOPMENT
Accelerating Cancer Therapeutics | ACT
Translational Therapeutics Resource | TRx
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES / DEVICES
Biomedical Technology Accelerator | BiomedX (formerly Columbia-Coulter)

Immigration 101 for Entrepreneurs and Startups
2018-10-10 13:00 - 15:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
RSVP HERE
On Wednesday October 10th at 1:00 PM, please join Columbia Lab-to-Market Accelerator Network (L2M) and Najia Khalid, Co-chair of Wiggin and Dana’s Immigration and Nationality Law and Compliance Practice Group, for an in-depth workshop on immigration law essentials for entrepreneurs and startups. Whether you are looking to work or hire in the United States, this training will provide an overview of immigration topics including tips on how to read, navigate, and evaluate financial documents, which are fundamental to various employment-based immigration cases. Food and refreshments will be served!

Studio Hours at the Design Studio (Open Collaboration Time)
2018-10-09 02:00 - 16:00, 2018-09-25 14:00 - 16:00
OPEN TO ALL IN THE COLUMBIA COMMUNITY
Do you have an idea and want to get personal design thinking feedback from the Columbia Entrepreneurship Design Studio? During Studio Hours, teams or individuals are invited to discuss their projects or ideas one-on-one with human-centered designers in the Studio. Teams of Columbia affiliates are also welcome to use the studio space for working independently on their entrepreneurial projects.

APPLICATION DEADLINE, 8 AM: Design Your Future
2018-10-08 08:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
APPLY HERE
The future can feel uncertain, so we’ve created Design Your Future as a three-session program where students learn to apply design to their careers and to life after graduation. The goal of this program is to help you to better navigate your career and life choices in the face of uncertainty.
This can be both an exciting and unnerving time.
What if you discover that your new job isn’t for you?
What happens if you start to drift away from the things you feel passionate about?
What trajectory is right for you?
In these interactive, emotive, and highly engaging sessions you will use design principles to prototype potential life trajectories.
APPLY HERE
Important Dates & Times:
Applications Open: August 29th, 8am
Applications Close: October 8th, 8am
Accepted Applicants Notified: October 10th, by 5pm
Classes held for three consecutive Tuesdays:
October 16 —11:00am to 1:00pm
October 23 —11:00am to 1:00pm
October 30 —11:00am to 1:00pm

Urban Works Challenge: India (Ideation)
2018-10-06 09:30
Key Dates: Tues Oct 2, Sat Oct 6
Register here: https://urbanworksindia2018.eventbrite.com

The Urban Works Design Challenge aims to generate innovative interdisciplinary technology solutions that could have an immediate impact on the future of work spaces in urban settings in India. Teams selected to continue will win a trip to Mumbai in January 2019. We invite students from all schools at the university to participate in this exciting opportunity to address a complex and future-facing problem. Individuals and teams from all backgrounds are welcome. Bring your passion for solving real problems!

Data Science Institute-Industry-Innovation Seminar: GE
2018-10-04 17:00 - 18:30
OPEN TO ALL

REGISTER HERE

Dr. Paul Ardis, Research Mission Leader at GE Global Research | “Going Further: Changing the Airline Industry Beyond the Aircraft”

Thursday, October 4, 2018
5:00PM – 6:30PM
Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium (412)

Abstract: Analytics are opening up new possibilities in the aviation sector as we think beyond the airplane during flight. Putting together GE’s expertise in AI for manufacturing and service with airline passenger analytics and intelligent supply chains, we are working towards a future where efficiency and agility is realized to maximize efficiency and minimize disruption.

Bio: Dr. Ardis has been leading AI research in the aviation sector at GE Global Research since 2013, having previously served as a professor at Rochester Institute of Technology and as a research contractor to the Air Force Research Laboratory.

Info Session: Columbia PowerBridgeNY
2018-10-04 12:00 - 13:00
OPEN TO: Columbia-employed researchers, post-doctoral candidates, and Ph.D. candidates
RSVP HERE
October 4th, 12pm, Mudd (Room TBD)
PowerBridgeNY is a proof-of-concept center (of which Columbia University is a partner) that provides up to $150K to validate and commercialize emerging clean energy innovations. All Columbia-employed researchers, post-doctoral candidates, and Ph.D. candidates are eligible to serve as Principal Investigators and may apply for this funding opportunity.
The pre-proposal opens October 1st and is due November 1st. Join us at this info session to learn more about the program! Lunch will be provided.

Information Session: Lab-to-Market Accelerators | Life Sciences
2018-10-04 12:00 - 13:00
Join the information session at MORNINGSIDE, MUDD 343, 12pm-1pm.
BRINGING YOUR IDEAS TO LIFE…
Moving cutting-edge university research out of the lab to benefit society
Accelerator programs aim to catalyze innovation via support to interdisciplinary engineer/scientist/clinician teams, with the goal of increasing the potential for private investment towards continued product development, clinical testing, and, ultimately, improved patient care and healthcare outcomes.
Selected teams work closely with business, legal and regulatory experts to define commercially-relevant hypotheses for research towards technical and business proof-of-concepts.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
Project funding, education and support for interdisciplinary teams working to advance innovative ideas with the potential to positively impact health outcomes.
THERAPEUTICS / DRUG DEVELOPMENT
Accelerating Cancer Therapeutics | ACT
Translational Therapeutics Resource | TRx
MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES / DEVICES
Biomedical Technology Accelerator | BiomedX (formerly Columbia-Coulter)

Urban Works Challenge: India (Kickoff)
2018-10-02

APPLICATION DEADLINE, 8 AM: Design Your Venture
2018-10-01 08:00
APPLY HERE
Are you an entrepreneurial Columbia student?
Is there a specific challenge or a problem you are passionate about solving?
Do you want to be part of an incredible cohort of change-makers?
Do you want to develop practical approaches that will lead to sustainable solutions?
The Design Your Venture program will work with a limited number of highly motivated teams to tackle an issue they’re passionate about using design to solve. Over the course of the semester, teams will dive into each phase of the design process together and receive one-on-one coaching from the Design Team.
Throughout the program you will:
* Interview and research real users and stakeholders in the community you are designing for.
* Design an innovative solution for your challenge.
* Have a coherent market, value proposition, and workable prototype by the end of the program.
This program is a deep dive into creating a venture based on user-feedback and testing so it will be particularly useful for students applying for any of the entrepreneurship fund challenges in their respective schools. You will be joining an impressive community: a number of teams who have been through this program have gone on to receive investment, win the Columbia Venture Competition, and earned seats in the Columbia Startup Lab.
APPLY HERE
Important Dates & Times:
Applications Open: August 29th, 8am
Applications Close: October 1st, 8am
Accepted Applicant Teams Notified: October 5th by 5pm

Design You Venture Launch and Happy Hour: October 11, 4:10pm-5:50pm
Design Your Venture will start on Thursday, October 11th, from 4:10 pm to 5:50pm followed by five consecutive weekly sessions on Thursday afternoons, ending on November 15th, the week before Thanksgiving Spring Break. If you are applying as a team you only need to fill out one application.

APPLICATIONS OPEN: PowerBridgeNY
2018-10-01
OPEN TO: Columbia-employed researchers, post-doctoral candidates, and Ph.D. candidates
APPLY HERE
Applications are now open for the sixth cycle of PowerBridgeNY!
PowerBridgeNY is a proof-of-concept center (of which Columbia University is a partner) that provides up to $150K to validate and commercialize emerging clean energy innovations. All Columbia-employed researchers, post-doctoral candidates, and Ph.D. candidates are eligible to serve as Principal Investigators and may apply for this funding opportunity.
The pre-proposal opens October 1st and is due November 1st.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA)
2018-10-01
OPEN TO UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE STUDENTS – see full eligibility rules.
What is GSEA?
The Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA) is a global competition for students who own and operate a business while attending college or university. EO GSEA supports student entrepreneurs who require much needed mentorship, recognition and connections to take their businesses to the next level of success. The 2018-19 Regional NYC Competition offers NYC-based students with a budding business the opportunity to compete with other student-entrepreneurs for a chance to appear in the National GSEA Competition, and ultimately the Global Student Entrepreneur Awards in Asia. Please view the NY competition website here.

Application Deadline
October 1, 2018
Applications are open here

Competition Date
November 2018

Empire State Opioid Epidemic Innovation Challenge (Solution Sprint)
2018-09-29 - 2018-09-30
Following Columbia’s opioid design challenge last fall, Columbia Engineering and Mailman School of Public Health are now working with the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) to host a follow-up challenge. Also in partnership with the State of New York, the Office of the Staten Island Borough President, and Northwell Health, the event will be in Davis Auditorium (530 W. 120th Street) September 28-30, 2018 and will feature prominent State and City officials as keynote speakers.
The Empire State Opioid Epidemic Innovation Challenge is comprised of two events

Challenge Summit, Friday Sept. 28, will convene clinicians, government representatives, public health experts and affected community members to facilitate a discussion of challenges and provide critical insight into the opioid epidemic. Importantly, this day serves as the unmet needs identification in the opioid crisis to inform solutions designed and built over the weekend.
Solution Sprint, Saturday and Sunday Sept. 29-30, will serve as a hackathon-style open-innovation platform for a diverse community to co-create solutions over a 48-hour period.

Through cross-disciplinary collaboration, mentorship and award incentives, teams can accelerate ideas into breakthrough innovations with the potential to change the trajectory of local and national opioid crisis.
We encourage Columbia students and faculty to participate. A flyer is attached and participants can register here: http://camtechmgh.org/forms/register/NYCopioids

Data Science Institute | Annual Town Hall | 2018
2018-09-28 10:00 - 11:30
OPEN TO ALL

REGISTER HERE

Friday, September 28, 2018
10:00AM – 11:30AM
** NOTE NEW LOCATION: Maison Francaise | East Gallery | Buelle Hall**

The Data Science Institute of Columbia University’s mission is to advance the state-of-the-art in data science; to transform all fields, professions, and sectors through the application of data science; and to ensure the responsible use of data for the benefit of society.

The Institute invites the Columbia Community to join us at our annual Town Hall to hear about recent highlights and to discover existing and emerging opportunities for engagement with the Institute.

Empire State Opioid Epidemic Innovation Challenge (Summit)
2018-09-28
Following Columbia’s opioid design challenge last fall, Columbia Engineering and Mailman School of Public Health are now working with the Consortium for Affordable Medical Technologies (CAMTech) to host a follow-up challenge. Also in partnership with the State of New York, the Office of the Staten Island Borough President, and Northwell Health, the event will be in Davis Auditorium (530 W. 120th Street) September 28-30, 2018 and will feature prominent State and City officials as keynote speakers.
The Empire State Opioid Epidemic Innovation Challenge is comprised of two events

Challenge Summit, Friday Sept. 28, will convene clinicians, government representatives, public health experts and affected community members to facilitate a discussion of challenges and provide critical insight into the opioid epidemic. Importantly, this day serves as the unmet needs identification in the opioid crisis to inform solutions designed and built over the weekend.
Solution Sprint, Saturday and Sunday Sept. 29-30, will serve as a hackathon-style open-innovation platform for a diverse community to co-create solutions over a 48-hour period.

Through cross-disciplinary collaboration, mentorship and award incentives, teams can accelerate ideas into breakthrough innovations with the potential to change the trajectory of local and national opioid crisis.
Participants can register here: http://camtechmgh.org/forms/register/NYCopioids

Third Thursday (this time on a fourth Thursday...): Welcome Back Entrepreneurs!!
2018-09-27 17:30 - 19:30
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
RSVP HERE
Third Thursday is a recurring open forum and networking info session for the Columbia University entrepreneurship community. It provides students, faculty, staff, and alumni the opportunity to hear ideas from across campus, form teams, and explore career options. You’ll hear from Columbia alumni and other experts on their experiences working in the field, how they’ve applied their Columbia experience in their careers, and more.
Join us! Food will be served!
Have an announcement or idea to pitch to the group? Contact Ivy Schultz (is2350@columbia.edu) in advance and come prepared to pitch it!

Cross-device User Clustering at Adobe
2018-09-26 17:00 - 18:30
OPEN TO ALL

REGISTER HERE

Wednesday, September 26, 2018
5:00PM – 6:30PM
Schapiro CEPSR, Davis Auditorium (412)

ABSTRACT: As people now engage with digital properties using a myriad of devices such as laptops, smart phones, tablets, connected TVs and gaming consoles, the traditional cookie-based or device-level views of online user interaction are too narrow. Even when using a single device, a person may be assigned multiple IDs due to cookie churn or the use of different browsers. Marketers are looking through a fragmented lens and are spending their marketing dollars without understanding more than a fractional part of consumer interactions.

This talk will give an overview of how Adobe is tackling this problem using graph processing techniques, going over our journey from the initial research ideas to a fully productized product that works at scale running in the cloud while respecting user privacy. Focus will be on our open-source technology stack, including Apache Spark, GraphX, OpenTSDB, … along with a description of our algorithms and the challenges we went through to run them at very large scale on Amazon Web Services.

Bio: Charles is a data engineer/scientist at Adobe, where he has been involved on many projects revolving around big data, infrastructure and data science. Passionate about data, Charles is constantly on the lookout for the newest technologies and applications related to data science at scale. After graduating with a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from EPITA, France, in 2010, Charles has since focused his career on the online advertising industry, working at an ad network, a Demand-Side Platform, and currently Adobe’s Data Management Platform.

Showcase: NextGen Cleantech
2018-09-24 17:30 - 21:00
OPEN TO ALL
RSVP HERE
Sept. 24th, 5:30-9pm, New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY.
Sponsored this year by Shell, NextGen Cleantech is a night of cutting edge innovation that will feature pitches & showcasing from the awardees of PowerBridgeNY and NEXUS-NY as well as a keynote address from William McDonough, a global leader in sustainable design and author of Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things and a talk from former cleantech entrepreneur and Breakthrough Energy investor, Kyle Teamey.
Stop by to learn about innovations that could help solve some of the most important issues affecting our climate, water, energy, waste, and transportation.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: SIPA Dean's Public Policy Challenge Grant
2018-09-24
OPEN TO: all teams with at least one SIPA student in a substantive role.
APPLY HERE
SIPA seeks proposals from Columbia University students for innovative projects that use digital technology and/or data analytics to solve global policy problems. For full competition details, please refer to the SIPA Dean’s Public Policy Challenge Grant website.

Columbia University School of the Arts’ Digital Storytelling Lab (DSL) presents Story I/O
2018-09-22 10:00 - 18:00
OPEN TO ALL
APPLY HERE
The intersection of Story and Impact.
Announcing the second edition of Story I/O, the Digital Storytelling Lab’s annual symposium that explores new forms and functions of storytelling. A highly interactive one-day event, Story I/O embraces methodologies used at the Columbia Digital Storytelling Lab to build collaborative spaces where we work together to create impact around complex, global challenges.
This is not your traditional symposium
Story I/O has been designed to mix theory and practice. To that end, we will convene a highly diverse group of participants from across the University and outside it in collaborative discussion and action that will have us designing and prototyping immersive storytelling simulations for understanding and care.
The day will focus on ways to harness speculative fiction, Artificial Intelligence and empathic conversational methods to create meaningful connections in order to tackle polarizing topics.
This year this is a collaboration with the Urban Design Program, Columbia GSAPP, and Art and Art Education, Teachers College.

Saturday, September 22nd
10am to 6pm
Location: The Lantern, Lenfest Center for the Arts
The event is limited to 90 participants
This event is FREE
Due to space limitations, attendees are selected based on a simple application process, and will be accepting applicants on a rolling basis.
APPLY TODAY

NYC Media Summit, NYCML’18
2018-09-20 - 2018-09-21
OPEN TO ALL
REGISTER HERE
NYC Media Lab is part of Columbia’s network of Lab-To-Market Accelerators.
NYCML’18 is a snapshot of the best thinking, projects and talent from across the City’s industry and university ecosystem. Through thought-provoking discussions, hands-on workshops, and 100 innovative demos, attendees will consider pressing issues related to digital media innovation.
The program of presentations, panels and demos will take place at The New School on Thursday, September 20th (8AM-5PM). Workshops will happen on Friday, September 21st (9AM-4PM) at NYU Kimmel Center.

Design Studio Fall Kickoff (Info Session and Networking)
2018-09-18 17:00 - 19:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
RSVP HERE
Join us at the Design Studio for our annual Fall Kickoff! Grab a beer, sip some wine, and learn more about all the phenomenal programs and opportunities available to you through the Design Studio.

ROOM 430 OF THE RIVERSIDE CHURCH (645 W 120TH STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10027)

Social Value Investing Book Talk and Reception
2018-09-17 18:00 - 19:00
OPEN TO ALL COLUMBIANS
REGISTER HERE
The Earth Institute’s Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management invites you to Social Value Investing: The Success of Cross-Sector Partnerships on Monday, September 17th, at 6:00pm at Columbia University.
Columbia professors Howard W. Buffett and William B. Eimicke recently published the book Social Value Investing: A Management Framework for Effective Partnerships, which presents a new way to approach some of society’s most difficult and intractable challenges—through new partnerships bringing together leaders from the public, private, and philanthropic sectors. We invite you to explore this exciting, new, emerging area of public policy with a panel discussion of several compelling stories of cross-sector partnerships from around the world, several of which are presented in the book.
The event, held at Columbia’s iconic Low Memorial Library, will begin with a reception at 6:00pm with wine, beer, and hors d’oeuvres.
The panel discussion, moderated by William Eimicke, will begin at 7:00pm with opening remarks from Steven Cohen, director of the Research Program on Sustainability Policy and Management, and Howard Buffett. Additional speakers to be confirmed.

Data for Good (or Scary AI and Other Dangers of Big Data)
2018-09-14 13:00 - 14:30
OPEN TO ALL
RSVP HERE

Friday, September 14, 2018
Location: Pupin 428
1:00PM – 2:30PM

Abstract: In our data-rich world, we in the technology community have a responsibility to ensure that we use data for good. In this talk, under the acronym FATES, I will focus on these aspects of the responsible use of data: fairness, accountability, transparency, ethics, safety and security. I will give examples of how data-hungry AI-based systems can lead to harmful decisions and even fatal errors. But I will also give examples of new techniques we can use to reduce some of these bad effects. Above all, we need to work with ethicists, social scientists, and humanists to build systems with FATES in mind as we design our technology not after we deploy it.

Bio: Biography: Jeannette M. Wing is Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute and Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. From 2013 to 2017, she was a Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Research. She is Consulting Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon where she twice served as the Head of the Computer Science Department and had been on the faculty since 1985. From 2007-2010 she was the Assistant Director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation. She received her S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science, all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Professor Wing’s general research interests are in the areas of trustworthy computing, specification and verification, concurrent and distributed systems, programming languages, and software engineering. Her current interests are in the foundations of security and privacy, with a new focus on trustworthy AI. She was or is on the editorial board of twelve journals, including the Journal of the ACM and Communications of the ACM.
She is currently a member of: the National Library of Medicine Blue Ribbon Panel, the Science, Engineering, and Technology Advisory Committee for the American Academy for Arts and Sciences; the Board of Trustees for the Institute of Pure and Applied Mathematics; the Advisory Board for the Association for Women in Mathematics; and the Alibaba DAMO Technical Advisory Board. She has been chair and/or a member of many other academic, government, and industry advisory boards. She received the CRA Distinguished Service Award in 2011 and the ACM Distinguished Service Award in 2014. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE).

AI & Truth
2018-09-13 18:30 - 20:30
OPEN TO ALL
RSVP HERE
Saška Mojsilović, head of AI Foundations at IBM Research and co-director of IBM Science for Social Good, and Chris Wiggins, Chief Data Scientist at the New York Times and Columbia professor, join Manoush Zomorodi to discuss the ways AI, computer vision, and data are blurring the line between fake news and reality.
This conversation will explore the intersection of critical thinking and machine learning, and analyze how AI can enable or fight against this new paradigm.

MassChallenge HealthTech Applications Launch Event
2018-09-13 17:00 - 19:00
Want to get in touch with Massachusetts’s digital health innovation scene?
MassChallenge HealthTech 2019 Application Launch is the perfect opportunity to meet all the movers and shakers in the digital health startup ecosystem. Join on September 13th at Microsoft NERD Center during Startup Boston: https://give.classy.org/ApplicationLaunch19

MassChallenge HealthTech Applications Launch Event
Date: Thursday, September 13th
Time: 5:00-7:00PM ET
Location: Microsoft NERD Center | 1 Memorial Dr, Cambridge, MA 02142
Event URL: https://give.classy.org/ApplicationLaunch19
