Innovations in computing
have transformed our world. Information and communication technologies
now bring together people and computers in powerful new ways and are creating
richly interconnected worlds that demonstrate new forms of collaboration,
communication, and emergent intelligence that were not previously achievable by
people or computers alone. Our successes pose a new set of challenges
that arise from contemplating systems comprised integrally of both computers
and people, an area that I call "socially intelligent computing".
By socially intelligent computing I refer to efforts in widely disparate
realms that attempt to understand the capabilities and limitations that systems
of people and computers together possess, and to develop a practical
understanding of the purposeful design of such systems. In this talk I
will outline various threads that are advancing our knowledge of socially
intelligent computing, directions for the future, and programs at the National
Science Foundation that contribute to such efforts.
Bio:
Haym Hirsh is Professor
and past Chair of Computer Science at Rutgers University and (through August
2010) is serving as Director of the Division of Information and Intelligent
Systems at the National Science Foundation. His research is on foundations and
applications of machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval. He
received his BS degree from the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments at
UCLA and his MS and PhD degrees from the Computer Science Department at
Stanford University.
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Aside from his talk, he would love to meet with anyone who is
interested in chatting about NSF and its research directions in general, and
IIS in particular. If you'd like to meet with him, please contact Alicia
Richhart (alicia@cc.gatech.edu).