Speaker(s)
Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg is a professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, and the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jennifer Chayes
Jennifer Chayes is Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society, and Dean of the School of Information. She is a Professor of EECS, Mathematics, Statistics, and the School of Information. Before joining Berkeley, she was at Microsoft for over 20 years, where she was Technical Fellow, and founder and managing director of three interdisciplinary labs: Microsoft Research New England, New York City, and Montreal. Chayes has received numerous awards for both leadership and scientific contributions, including the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Leadership Award, the John von Neumann Award of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and an honorary doctorate from Leiden University. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Sciences.
Dan Huttenlocher
Daniel Huttenlocher is the inaugural dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. Previously he helped found Cornell Tech, the digital technology oriented graduate school created by Cornell University in New York City, and served as its first Dean and Vice Provost. His research and teaching have been recognized by a number of awards including ACM Fellow and CASE Professor of the Year. He has a mix of academic and industry background, having been a Computer Science faculty member at Cornell, researcher and manager at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), and CTO of a fintech startup. He currently serves as the board chair of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and as a member of the board of Corning Inc. and Amazon.com. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan, and master's and doctorate from MIT.
Michael I. Jordan
Michael I. Jordan is a Professor of EECS and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jitendra Malik
Jitendra Malik is the Arthur J. Chick Professor of EECS at the University of California at Berkeley.
As part of BAIR's Distinguished Lecture in Place Series, Jennifer Chayes (Associate Provost of the Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society; and Dean of the School of Information at UC Berkeley) and Dan Huttenlocher (Dean of MIT's Schwarzman College of Computing), discussed MIT and Berkeley Perspectives on the Future of AI Research and Education with Professors Jitendra Malik and Michael I. Jordan (EECS, UC Berkeley). The welcome and introduction were provided by Ken Goldberg. Chayes shares in the talk, "Computing and AI need to start looking outwards. We have enough data now to help address... societal problems."