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…
I’m super proud to be one of the founding faculty for the Master of Human-Computer Interaction and Design program at UCI! This was mainly the result of hard work by Prof. Gillian Hayes with support from myself and Prof. Judy Olson. Of course the entire Informatics department at UCI was supporting the initiative as well. We…
Citizenfour screening I can’t wait until Thursday March 3rd, because Westmont is hosting a screening of Citizenfour and a post-screening discussion of the themes the movie brings up. Several Westmont faculty were asked to be present at the discussion to help provide insight and perspective on what is a very complicated issue. The movie is…
Refugee Teach-In at Westmont College Today There will be a one hour teach-in on the Syrian Refugee crisis today at noon on the Westmont College Dining Commons lawn (or Founder’s if raining). I was asked to speak to the vetting-process/security-threat angle briefly. Between handling the immigration of my oldest son, a Top Secret clearance in…