Great thread on Hinton's infamous prediction about AI replacing radiologists: "thinkers have a pattern where they are so divorced from implementation details that applications seem trivial, when in reality, the small details are exactly where value accrues."

A fantastic few days at Vis Summer Camp in Charleston! Thanks to the organizers ( Arvind Satyanarayan, Lace Padilla , Remco Chang, Josh Levine, Kristi Potter ) for making it happen, already looking forward to next year! #vissummercamp

We also offered a qualitative analysis of how TAs attempted to distinguish between human and GPT-generated assignments when grading. Access the full details in our paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.02914

Kudos to Associate Professor Nils Gehlenborg, who will receive an A. Clifford Barger Excellence in Mentoring Award at this afternoon's ceremony! HMS Diversity Inclusion & Community Partnership Harvard Medical School Nils Gehlenborg dicp.hms.harvard.edu/awards-and-rec… Past mentoring award recipients of DBMI include Marinka Zitnik

Curios about this year’s Bio+MedVis Challenge? 🤷‍♀️ We will present the challenge and answer questions this Tuesday, Jun 27, 2023! 🎉 10am – 10:30am (Central European Time - Berlin) Join us on zoom: cesnet.zoom.us/j/93610475094 #BioVis #MedVis

I am far from the only person looking for vis students for next year! Many other wonderful people in the community are also recruiting!! Check out this page we recently made collecting lots of other great positions vis-phd-positions.netlify.app

Passionate about #DataVisualization and considering a Ph.D. in CS or PSY? Dive into this list of exciting open positions – including one with me! Check it out and RT to spread the word! 📊🎓 #PhDPositions #FutureResearchers #TechTuesday vis-phd-positions.netlify.app

I am recruiting PhD students and postdocs this year! If you’re excited about building and evaluating data visualization and analysis software, please consider applying to join my lab UChicagoCS Data Science Institute

Qianwen Wang joined the Department of Computer Science & Engineering in fall 2023 as an assistant professor. Before joining the University, Wang served as a post-doctoral researcher at Harvard University. Learn more about Qianwen Wang here: z.umn.edu/MeetWang

🚨Elections are now open! We have four nominees to represent the VEC and four nominees to represent the VSC. IEEE VIS registered voters, you should have received email correspondence with instructions to vote using Belenios. 🗳️ See you at the polls!

I am recruiting PhD students for Fall 2024 to join me (and GroupLens ) at UMN Computer Science & Engineering! If you're interested in human-centered AI, explainability, or hybrid intelligence systems, please consider applying here cse.umn.edu/cs/phd-admissi… Please RT or DM me if you know of folks!

Hi #ieeevis🦘 Dylan Cashman, Junpeng Wang, and I will host a VIS4ML panel this Thursday 3:45-5:00 PM 🎙Honored to have Duen Horng "Polo" Chau, Menna El-Assady, Ross Maciejewski, and Dominik Moritz as our panelists Join us to critique and explore the role of VIS4ML in the rapid evolution of AI🤖!

See you then!

First snow

Join us this summer 🌞& Explore VR, visualization, HCI, and human-robot interaction research! 🌟We offer a $7k stipend, dorm housing, meals, and travel funds. 🌟 Apply by April 10 for early consideration, but we’re open until we’re full! ➡️ reu.cs.umn.edu

Registration is open for the 2024 #Boston VIS Summer School 📍Northeastern University 📅 Aug 13-14 🏫 Workshops, panels, and connections for early career researchers in #dataviz CC Arvind Satyanarayan Enrico Bertini Sydney Purdue Registration closes on July 29th docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

VIS is the best academic conference I’ve been to hands down, a big tent of friendly, smart, open-minded folks working on big problems. If you do work on visualization, data analysis, usable statistics, or applied behavioral science, please consider checking out the conference!