Month: December 2023

Clemson University’s Historic Preservation program is launching the Johns Island Preservation Field School. The summer field school program funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Vernacular Architecture Forum focuses on researching and documenting late 19th and early 20th century public buildings and their role within the African American community on Johns Island, SC. 
“The field school brings together African American studies, public history, history, historic preservation and other thinking and skills, all surrounding important and story-laden historic places and the people associated with these built environments,” explained Amalia Leifeste, associate professor of historic preservation at Clemson University. More->>

Explore the ACSA index of proceedings to stay up-to-date on conferences. More->>

Technology | Architecture + Design (TAD) is a biannual peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the advancement of scholarship in the field of building technology and its translation, integration, and impact on architecture and design. More->>

The AIA COTE® Top Ten for Students Competition is sponsored by The American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment (AIA COTE®), in partnership with the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA). Each year, the competition recognizes ten exceptional student design studio projects that integrate health, sustainability, and equity, evaluated following the same categories of the AIA COTE® Top Ten Award for built work, and the AIA Framework for Design Excellence (now adopted as the basis of professional practice and awards across the AIA). The deadline to register is April 10, 2024. More->>

In response to major advances in generative AI technologies—as well as the significant questions these technologies pose in areas including intellectual property, the future of work, and even human safety—ACM’s global Technology Policy Council (TPC) has issued “Principles for the Development, Deployment, and Use of Generative AI Technologies.” Drawing on the deep technical expertise of computer scientists in the United States and Europe, the TPC statement outlines eight principles intended to foster fair, accurate, and beneficial decision-making concerning generative and all other AI technologies. More->>

To help make sense of the many and multiplying efforts to coordinate future “GenAI” policy and governance around the globe, ACM’s Technology Policy Council hosted the latest in its HotTopics webinar series, “Artificial Intelligence, Real Regulation: International Perspectives and Prospects”—now available on demand. It is a fascinating discussion between moderator Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, panelists Dame Wendy Hall, Juha Heikkila, and Marc Rotenberg, and audience members about the growing concerns surrounding the growth and regulation of generative artificial intelligence both now and in the future. More->>

How are technologies like ChatGPT created? And what does the future hold for AI language models? This talk was filmed at the Royal Institution on 29th September 2023, in collaboration with The Alan Turing Institute.

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2018 A.M. Turing Award recipient Geoffrey Hinton appeared on 60 Minutes to discuss the risks and promise of artificial intelligence. Hinton—one of the “Godfathers of AI” along with Yoshua Bengio and Yann LeCun—wants governments, companies and developers to carefully consider the best ways to safely advance the technology. He also believes that AI has the potential for both good and harm, that now is the moment to run experiments to understand AI and pass laws to ensure the technology is ethically used, and that AI does have the potential to one day take over from humanity. More->>

This talk is a follow-up to the April 19, 2023 webinar with Mehran Sahami of Stanford University, “Confronting Ethical Challenges in a High-Tech World.” Serami and a panel of AI-ML experts from industry and academia—Tulsee Doshi, Susan Epstein, Fay Cobb Payton, Susan Reiser, and Kush Varshney—will explore some of the ethical questions raised in that session, including the role of human values in AI algorithms, bias in AI-ML and the impact of diverse teams in reducing bias; data privacy, and more. More->>