Last night I had the opportunity to join several local entrepreneurs and non-profit leaders to talk about how AI is impacting non-profit fundraising. I don’t know very much about fundraising myself, but Westmont is developing a pretty robust machine learning infrastructure to help guide the campus fundraising efforts. I had something to say about machine…
The Computer Science Academy The Santa Barbara High School has a Computer Science Academy within it. This is a program that is currently run by Richard Johnston and enables students to be in a multi-year course sequence to develop computing skills. One of my kids participates in it and I was invited to come down…
The third ACM LIMITS workshop wrapped up recently. It was held June 22, 23 and 24th at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA and followed on from two previous events held at UC Irvine (see 2016, and 2015, 2015) It featured local researchers from Westmont College and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) as well as international guests…
The Westmont Mosher Center for Moral and Ethical Leadership is organizing a conference on May 31-June 2 called “Lead Where You Stand“. It’s a three day conference that “will offer key insights into an enduring challenge: How do we develop the capacity to respond in timely, principled ways to the multifaceted challenges and opportunities of effective…
Conversation about Big Data and Surveillance at the University Club of Santa Barbara I’m honored to be invited to speak at the University Club of Santa Barbara on April 13th, 2017 at 5:30pm to give a talk about “Big Data”. The talk is sponsored by Westmont College and is part of their “Westmont Downtown: Conversations about…
Tonight’s Event on Limits This evening I’ll be participating in a public discussion at the Newkirk Center for Science and Society on “Computing with Limits”. The title of my talk is “Haiti’s Grid Isn’t Smart, It’s Futuristic”. My main point is that the 2010 earthquake in Haiti created conditions in Haiti that are illuminating for…