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Hello, #CHI2024 friends and colleagues: I will not be able to take on any reviews this year as I will be away and offline for several weeks. Thanks for your understanding and sorry to miss out on all the great new work that is most assuredly coming down the pike this year.

I am recruiting PhD/MSc students for Fall 2024 McMaster Engineering! If you are someone/know someone who is interested in investigating the design of collaborative computing systems in social context, and/or interested in working with older adults and/or children, please reach out!

On Wednesday, October 4, 2023 the FTC will host a roundtable on Creative Economy and Generative AI. I'll be one of the speakers. Looking forward to hearing what the others have to say. ftc.gov/news-events/ev…

At MSR, we have been hard at work tinkering with a framework for LLM agents that collaborate and solve tasks. Introducing 📢 AutoGen: A new framework for building multi-agent LLM applications (MIT License) What can you do with AutoGen? - Multi-agent conversations: AutoGen

📢Check out what our team Microsoft Research has been working on! 👇 #AutoGen is an open source, multi-agent framework for easily building powerful LLM-based applications. 🤖🤖🤖 Repo: aka.ms/autogen-gh Discord: aka.ms/autogen-dc #AI #LLM #Microsoft

I unfortunately will not be attending #CHI2024 to present the paper I didn’t submit, or even get around to writing, and which shockingly received no Honorable Mention (or any mention whatsoever) due to its brilliant non-existence within the confines of my own cranium.

How sci-fi writer JG Ballard's computer poems predicted ChatGPT bbc.com/future/article… via BBC Future

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📣 Call for UIST Visions is now out! We invite forward-thinking ideas that inspire research directions for future interfaces and interaction techniques. 🗓️Deadline: July 31, 2024, 5pm PT 🔗Details: uist.acm.org/2024/cfp/#visi… Co-chaired by Alex Olwal & Mira Dontcheva!

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The @UW_iSchool is hiring this year! Tenure track open area, tenure track LIS, teaching track data science, teaching track LIS. Come join us in the bustling, drizzly, booming Pacific Northwest! ischool.uw.edu/about/jobs/fac…

Do you design, research and teach in the intersection of design+interaction? Cornell's Design Tech department has an open-rank search for the Cornell Tech NYC campus: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/28586

The Surface Duo left an impression on me that I don't think any other phone ever will. It was unique, beautiful, and actually productive once you figured out its quirks. It was a genuine conversation starter on nights out, people were MESMERIZED by it. Huge shame it's dead now.

Multiple continuing (tenure-track) positions at the School of Computer Science at the University of Sydney! Any level, any topic—we are after cool people to join us. usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXT…

We are hiring! UVA CS is recruiting 5 tenured or tenure-track faculty at all ranks and in all areas of CS, including HCI. Please reach out if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/151047

I'm a grown person with tenure and an endowed chair, and yet when I get a journal rejection the reviewer comments *still* make me feel like I've I lost my touch. I can't write. The paper is worthless. I should just trunk it. Every. single. time. 1/

I am also recruiting PhD/MSc students in CS/Software for fall 2025 at McMaster University. If you are interested in designing and building social technologies for older adults do reach out! Happy to meet and chat at CSCW.

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The Data Systems group at MSR Redmond Microsoft Research is now looking for in-person summer 2025 interns in the data systems and exploration areas! Interested PhD students (US and international) can apply at jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… -- thank you!