UCI Department of InformaticsDonald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences

WINTER 2020SEMINAR SERIES

Fridays, 2-4 p.m. in Donald Bren Hall, Room 5011*Talks 2-3 p.m. / Reception 3-4 p.m.

WORK BUILDLIVE

January 10Alexandra Papoutsaki

Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Pomona College

Eye Tracking Tools for Research on Individuals

and Teams

January 24Daniel M. RussellSenior Research Scientist for Search Quality and User Happiness, Google

The Joy of Search: Adventures in Teaching Online Research Skills (And Why That’s Important for Software Engineering)

ISR Southern California Software Engineering Symposium Keynote Speaker* Note: This talk will take place from 3-4 p.m. in DBH 6011

February 21Antero Garcia

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University

Worldmaking in the Pudding Court: Acculturation,

Collaboration, and Power in Tabletop Roleplaying Games

February 28Bo RubergAssistant Professor, Department of Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine

The Queer Games Avant-Garde: How LGBTQ Game Makers Are Reimagining the Medium of Video Games

ISR Distinguished Speaker Series

March 6 March 13Andrew T. CampbellAlbert Bradley 1915 Third Century

Professor in Computer Science, Dartmouth College

Future of Mental Health Sensing – Call to Arms

Kavita PhilipProfessor of History and Affiliated Faculty in Informatics, UC Irvine

At Once Comprehensive and Minute: South Asian Data’s Long Twentieth Century

January 31Katherine Isbister

Professor, Department of Computational Media, UC Santa Cruz

Playful Social Engineering: Technology for Being Together

February 7Ruha BenjaminAssociate Professor of African American Studies, Princeton University

A New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life

* Note: In collaboration with the UCI School of Law, this talk will take place in the Law and Education Building, Room EDU 1111.