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Friday Five for January 13, 2023

This Week's Stories:

1. Black History Month Keynote – Gay McDougall: “The United Nations’ Efforts on Racism in the Post-George Floyd World”

February 22, 2023  •  12:00pm – 1:00pm  •  UCLA School of Law, 385 Charles E. Young Drive East Los Angeles, CA 90095 , Room 1357.  The UCLA Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion proudly presents a Black History Month Keynote from Professor Gay McDougall, titled “The United Nations’ Efforts on Racism in the Post-George Floyd World”.

Please RSVP here

2. ACM at UCLA | ICPC Team Trainings

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm Jan 14, 2023
Engineering VI – Room 289
404 Westwood Plaza Los Angeles California 90095

The ICPC Team Training is a weekly practice session for the ICPC Regional teams and students interested in improving their competitive programming abilities. Attendees will work in groups to tackle curated problem sets focused on specific data structures and algorithms.
 
Read more here

3. Designing for Inclusivity: Connecting Expansive Learning, Multimodal Interfaces, and Learning Analytics

Jan 20 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Donald Bren Hall, 6011
University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA 92697, United States
 
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4. Unpacking the “black box” to build better AI models

Stefanie Jegelka seeks to understand how machine-learning models behave, to help researchers build more robust models for applications in biology, computer vision, optimization, and more.

Read the article here

5. Friday Fun

Pie chart showing which operating system scientists use (joke)
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