AI Ecosystem Symposium 5
UIC AI Ecosystem Symposium 5
November 7th
1:00PM to 5:00 PM
Location: CDRLC 1422, 850 W Taylor St
Building AI Literacy Across Disciplines
1:00 – 1:05 PM Welcome – Ying Liu
1:05 – 1:20 PM Opening Remarks – Provost Karen Colley
1:20 – 2:00 PM Keynote
- Chris Daugherty (Strategy Lead for Education, Google Cloud), Insights into the state of AI for EDU; A Google perspective
2:00 – 2:30 PM Perspectives from Unit Leaders on AI Literacy at UIC
- Michael Bennett (Associate Vice Chancellor for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Strategy), An Age of Distributed Cognition
- Ali Tafti (Professor & Head, Department of Information and Decision Sciences, College of Business), Designing an AI Curriculum for Business Practitioners: Short-Term Relevance and Long-Term Rigor
- Baoxin Li (Professor and Head, Department of Computer Science, College of Engineering), Empowering AI Literacy: The CS Department as a Hub for Research and Academic Partnerships
- Luke Hanley (Professor and Associate Dean of Research, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences), AI and Machine Learning in LAS: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3:50 – 4:20 PM Coffee Break
4:20 – 5:00 PM Curriculum and Educational Tool Development
- Baker Franke (Senior Lecturer, Computer Science), AI for Everyone: Lessons from CS 218, UIC’s Data + AI Course on Cross-Disciplinary AI Literacy
- Mingyan Li (Clinical Associate Professor and Metadata Librarian, UIC Library), AI-Generated Metadata for UIC Libraries
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