Event schedule

October 26

Day 1
Light Breakfast

Welcome and opening remarks

Machine learning basics: Perceptron
  • Alfredo Canziani New York University

Break

Ethics and AI: Know what you're building and why (Room 150)
  • Varoon Mathur AI Now Institute

Learning from interactions (Room 110)
  • Hal Daumé III University of Maryland, College Park | Microsoft Research

Lunch
Lab Session

Break

Talking to people: conversing with empathy and controlling multiple text attributes
  • Y-Lan Boureau Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research

Dumbing Down? How Data Science Helps us Understand Trends in Political Communication
  • Arthur Spirling New York University

Panel: Careers in AI

October 27

Day 2
Light Breakfast

Deep Neural Networks: Multi-layer Perceptrons
  • Alfredo Canziani New York University

Break

Producing and Perceiving Charismatic Speech (Room 150)
  • Julia Hirschberg Columbia University

Music Information Retrieval (Room 110)
  • Brian McFee New York University

Lunch
Lab Session

Break

How to get into AI
  • Joel Tetreault Dataminr

Panel: Next Steps
Closing remarks

Dinner

October 28 (Optional: Facebook Tour)

Day 3
Lunch
Facebook NYC Office Tour
Panel at Facebook
Closing remarks