BCNM Around the Web Summer 2024
Ken Goldberg
Ken Goldberg is an Industrial Engineering and Operations Research professor at UC Berkeley. He supervises research in Robotics and Automation. He and his co-authors have published over 300 peer-reviewed technical papers on algorithms for robotics, automation, and social information filtering, and he holds ten U.S. patents.
—In the MIT Technology Review, Ken highlighted the expanding capabilities of robots with the use of AI. Read more here!
—Ken additionally contributed to the Data + AI Summit's Compound AI Systems Workshop. The session featured 25 researchers investigating ways to design Compound AI Systems, which use multiple model calls and/or external components. Learn more here!
Jane McGonigal
Jane McGonigal is a research director at Institute for the Future and a two-time New York Times bestselling author of Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World and SuperBetter: The Power of Living Gamefully. She has a PhD from the UC Berkeley in Performance Studies.
—Jane was featured in a Tech Times' article, "7 Inspiring Tech Influencers Shaping Today's Digital Landscape". Read it here!
Hannah Zeavin
Hannah Zeavin is an assistant professor of History in the Department of History and The Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley. Her work focuses on the history of human sciences (psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychiatry), the history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, and media theory.
—Hannah appeared as a speaker for the Clayman Institute’s Artist's Salon series hosted by The Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University. Looking at both Freudian and anti-Freudian attitudes and uses of psychoanalysis, women, and feminism, Hannah lectured toward a feminist Freud for the 21st century. Read more here!
Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen is an artist whose work spans image-making, sculpture, investigative journalism, writing, engineering, and numerous other disciplines. This summer, Trevor took part in multiple showcases and exhibitions.
—Trevor's piece Our Crowded Skies was spotlighted in Medianet as a part of Australia's National Science Week. The artwork was exhibited at the Parramatta Town Hall in Parramatta, Australia. Read more here!
—Trevor spoke in a panel at the Parramatta Town Hall. Alongside space environmentalist Moriba Jah and Australian content creator Dagogo Altraide, he discussed a cloud that encircles Earth and what it contains, from debris to satellites that watch our every move. Read more about the panel here!
—Trevor was featured as a panelist at 'Visions', a public forum on the art, science and politics of seeing hosted by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia and the Power Institute at the University of Sydney. Read more about the forum here!
—Trevor’s interactive video installation Faces of ImageNet was included in Kunsthal Charlottenborg's major group exhibition in collaboration with KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Read more here!
Edgar Fabián Frías
Edgar Fabián Frías is a multidisciplinary artist, psychotherapist, educator, curator, and brujx based in Los Angeles. With a passion for breaking boundaries and creating new forms of knowledge, he blends diverse artistic disciplines to produce thought-provoking and immersive works of art that transcend conventional categories.
—Edgar's work was exhibited at the Art on Tezos show co-hosted by Artcrush Gallery and Trilitech. Read more about the show here!