AI is powerful, but it can make choices that result in objective errors, contextually inappropriate outputs, and disliked options. This is especially critical when AI-powered systems are used for context- and preference-dominated open-ended AI-assisted tasks—like ideating, summarizing, searching, sensemaking, and the reading and writing of text or code. We need AI-resilient interfaces that help users notice and recover from AI choices that are not right, or not right for them given their goals and context. We have derived design implications from key theories of human cognition to help us build more AI-resilient interfaces and reliable tools from unreliable AI.Join us for an important discussion on this topic on Tuesday, April 15th at 4pm. This talk will walk through two new systems that demonstrate this approach: CorpusStudio, an AI-powered writing environment, and MOCHA, a tool for co-adaptive machine teaching.Bio: Elena L. Glassman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering & Applied Sciences, specializing in human-computer interaction. Prior to that, she was a postdoctoral scholar at UC Berkeley, and obtained a BS, MEng, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. She has been named a Stanley A. Marks & William H. Marks Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and a National Academy of Sciences Kavli Fellow. Her work has been funded by the NSF, private industry, the Berkeley Institute for Data Science, and the Sloan Research Fellowship. This work has received Best Paper and Honorable Mention awards at top-tier human-computer interaction research venues.This event is co-sponsored by the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing and Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems.

Speaker: Kaelyn Sumigray, YaleHost: The Chipperfield CommitteeTitle: "Collective cell dynamics in epithelial morphogenesis"The Biology Colloquium is a weekly seminar held throughout the academic year — featuring distinguished speakers in many areas of the biological sciences from universities and institutions worldwide. More information on speakers, their affiliations, and titles of their talks will be added as available. Unless otherwise stated, the Colloquium will be held live in Stata 32-123 (Kirsch auditorium) Contact Margaret Cabral with questions.

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Preparing for a research talk, investor pitch, or interview? Eager to polish your three-minute thesis video, podcast, or public talk? In this NEW, six-session workshop series, learn to refine your speaking and presentation skills across a range of contexts. Whether your audience is intimate or enormous, expert or novice, we will help you find strategies to capture and keep their attention. Each interactive session will invite you to implement tips on tailoring your content, delivery, and visual aids to develop your confidence, clarity, and charisma. At the end of six meetings, you will have solid advice and experience with introducing yourself and your topic, tailoring your talk to diverse audiences, structuring your content, streamlining your flow, practicing effectively, and fielding questions.Session 1: Tue, April 1, 4:00-5:30 p.m. First Impressions Session 2: Thu, April 3, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Engage Your Audience Session 3: Tue, April 8, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Structure Your Presentation Session 4: Thu, April 10, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Tell Your Story Session 5: Tue, April 15, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Enhance Your Presentation Session 6: Thu, April 17, 4:00-5:30 p.m. Finish Strong: Conclusions and Q&A

Speaker: David Lee (MIT) at 4:30 PM 2-131 (special time and location)Title: On the p-local homotopy type of truncated Brown—Peterson spectraAbstract: It is a result of Adams and Priddy that BSU admits a unique infinite loop space structure after localization at a prime p. On the way to proving this statement, they prove that the p-localized connective complex K-theory spectrum ku(p) is characterized by its 𝔽p-cohomology as a Steenrod module. I will talk about a generalization of this part to truncated Brown—Peterson spectra BP⟨ n⟩ at odd primes, which can be thought of as higher chromatic analogues of the connective complex K-theory. In particular, since the 𝔽p-cohomology depends only on the p-completion, a part of this result is that we can recover the p-local homotopy type of BP⟨ n⟩ from its p-completion. Finally, I will describe some applications and open questions, including the status of the problem at p = 2.