Competing in the Age of AI In-Person/Online
- Date:
- Tuesday, November 28, 2023
- Time:
- 7:30pm - 8:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Wakelin Room
- Campus:
- Main Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Lecture > Science Lecture
- Online:
- This is an online event. Event URL will be sent via registration email.
Join Hanspeter Pfister for a discussion on the most recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to have an informed opinion about the state of AI and its implications for the future. In particular, I will discuss foundation models, such as ChatGPT and DALL-E, which are large neural networks trained on massive datasets. Foundation models exhibit sophisticated text and code generation, which can be combined to unlock surprising capabilities such as language-conditioned image generation.
Hanspeter Pfister is the Academic Dean of Computational Sciences and Engineering and the An Wang Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He is an affiliate faculty member of the Harvard Center for Brain Science and served as director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science 2013-17. His research in visual computing lies at the intersection of visualization, computer graphics, and computer vision. It spans various topics, including biomedical visualization, image and video analysis, machine learning, and data science. Pfister has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, New York, and an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Before joining Harvard, he worked for over a decade at Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories as Associate Director and Senior Research Scientist. He was the chief architect of VolumePro, Mitsubishi Electric’s award-winning real-time volume rendering graphics card, for which he received the Mitsubishi Electric President’s Award in 2000. Pfister was elected as an ACM Fellow in 2019 and an IEEE Fellow in 2023. He received the 2010 IEEE Visualization Technical Achievement Award, the 2009 IEEE Meritorious Service Award, and the 2009 Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Award. Pfister is a member of the ACM SIGGRAPH Academy, the IEEE Visualization Academy, and a director of the IEEE Visualization and Graphics Technical Committee and the ACM SIGGRAPH Executive Committee.
Presented in partnership with Wellesley Neighbors.