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The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis) cordially invites you to join us for the inaugural talk in the fall semester of our 2018-2019 invited speaker series: “Visualization: A Petri Dish for Intelligence Augmentation” Arvind Satyanarayan Assistant Professor, Computer Science MIT CSAIL, Visualization Group Thursday, September 27, 2018 3 PM - 4:30 PM West Village G Room 102, Northeastern University 450 Parker Street Boston, MA 02115 Event Page<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnuvis.northeastern.edu%2Fevents%2Fevent%2Farvind-satyanarayan-visualization-a-petri-dish-for-intelligence-augmentation%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C56d065b91f4a488515b108d622444cdd%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C636734074063502870&sdata=VZu5WwiKPD6ZjWK0MaLae34otUPQcPKSPCHAJ4b1i9Y%3D&reserved=0> Abstract: Rather than automating people out of the equation, our current golden age of artificial intelligence offers new opportunities to realize Douglas Engelbart’s 1960s vision of “Augmenting Human Intellect.” To be effective, collaboration between people and machines must share a representation of tasks — one that systems can tractably reason about and that people can easily manipulate. In this talk, I present two approaches to developing these domain-specific representations. The first, the Vega project, describes new declarative visualization languages that serve as platforms for novel visualization design tools and chart recommender engines. The second uses visualization to uncover the abstractions learned by GoogLeNet, a neural network trained for image classification. About the speaker: Arvind Satyanarayan is an assistant professor of computer science at MIT CSAIL where he leads the Visualization Group. His research uses visualization as a lens to explore how software systems can enhance our creativity and cognition, while respecting our agency. Visualization systems he has built are in use on Wikipedia, and have been broadly adopted within data science (Jupyter and Observable) as well as industry (including at Apple, Google, Microsoft, Netflix). [cid:79e6c73d-e318-4b18-84e0-d890e6258c39] About NUVis: The Northeastern University Visualization Consortium (NUVis)<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnuvis.northeastern.edu%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C56d065b91f4a488515b108d622444cdd%7Ca8eec281aaa34daeac9b9a398b9215e7%7C0%7C0%7C636734074063512878&sdata=EHY3dNPjB%2FpHuKlNKwkoMsxtrJR0yv5QQwERAhByFTM%3D&reserved=0> is an interdisciplinary cross-university initiative to support the university’s research efforts in visualization and to connect faculty, researchers, and students across campus to foster a visualization community. Northeastern University’s interdisciplinary focus and structure is an ideal environment for such an interdisciplinary field of study, and the goal of NUVis, funded through a collaboration between the College of Arts, Media and Design and the College of Computer and Information Science, is to continue to foster and grow this important area of research. NUVis sponsors talks and symposia including a bi-weekly seminar, connects faculty and students through its online portal, provides resources to support visualization-related research at the university through avenues including workshops and library-sponsored open office hours, and hosts and organizes community building events including hackathons and student research poster exhibitions. ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the NUVIS-LIST list, click the following link: https://listserv.neu.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=NUVIS-LIST