Brent Hecht

Director of Applied Science @Microsoft. Associate Professor at @NorthwesternU. Responsible AI, spatial computing, human-centered AI. Opinions my own.

[Longqi Yang @ylongqi]

Continuing our research to understand the impact of remote and hybrid work. This time @PNASNews we shared how hybrid work brings environmental benefits. Proud to work with world-class environmental scientists to help organizations around the world navigate work flexibility.

[Brent Hecht @bhecht]

We have a new academic CFP at Microsoft: Help define a "new future of work" for the LLM era! If you want to do research on augmentative applications of LLMs, provenance in LLMs, or any topic re LLMs and information work, you can submit a proposal here: https://t.co/8unvvHT6D9

[Brent Hecht @bhecht]

@kous2v @IllinoisCS Fantastic!!

[Microsoft Research @MSFTResearch]

Ece Kamar and Ashley Llorens discuss techniques to build useful systems around today's large-scale AI models and long-term research to help maximize their value: https://t.co/lEw8tQCkPY

[Eric Horvitz @erichorvitz]

Several fun vignettes on how colleagues are using large language models in their everyday tasks @jteevan @erikbryn @ManlikeMishap https://t.co/BZuOAEH4AP

[Eric Horvitz @erichorvitz]

At the White House today for discussions with the President on the risks and opportunities of #AI.
https://t.co/ukWTV6LGsn #PCAST @WHOSTP

[Jaime Teevan @jteevan]

Science (@jteevan) + Design (@designjon) + Engineering (@sumit_c) = AI MAGIC! Meet a few of the people behind @Microsoft's #M365Copilot: https://t.co/Txym3G6L9X

[Hancheng Cao @CaoHancheng]

Finally back to US after nearly two months! While Mexico is a great country to stay, being put under 'administrative processing' for US student visa renewal (so as to attend conferences abroad/go home), get stuck and having no clue about the length of the process is not so fun 🥲

[Brent Hecht @bhecht]

A quick break from your AI news to bring some news of natural intelligence: Mina Virginia Hecht was born on Monday! She and her mom (and her dad) are doing well, and her older sister is thrilled to have a new bff.

[Universität St.Gallen (HSG) @HSGStGallen]

How does a space productively bring together colleagues who are present and those who work remotely? Together with @MSFTResearch, HSG researchers are developing new types of office workplaces. @DanAtResearch @glsavino @JohannesSchoeni https://t.co/YbxxIBucG0

[Danish Contractor @danish_c]

Excited to share the call for participation from the @ResponsibleAIL initiative. There's work to be done towards developing best practices, tooling, governance, data licensing and more! https://t.co/uMx6aObS99 #ResponsibleAILicenses #RAIL #AI #ResponsibleAI

[Brent Hecht @bhecht]

Two all-stars on a critical topic!

[Toby J. Li😺 (he/him) @TobyJLi]

Hi Twitter! This Thursday at 11am ET, I'm hosting @hanlinliii to discuss Data Labor and the Labor Force behind AI as a part of the @CHIWORKsymp weekly conversation series. Please join us! https://t.co/KWnLgPlA7U

[Fereshte Khani @fereshte_khani]

🚨 Internship Alert 🚨
There are some interesting internship opportunities on LLMs sponsored by our group, please apply!

https://t.co/QmLicVWKke

[Longqi Yang @ylongqi]

Definitely check out @JingMa77838617 if your department is hiring!

[Darren Gergle @dagwood]

Northwestern @NU_SoC is looking to hire a tenure-track assistant professor in computational social science and adjacent fields and topics such as human-computer interaction (HCI) @nu_hci, (mis)information, data visualization... App deadline: Dec 1 https://t.co/n5Phxbz93e

[Brent Hecht @bhecht]

A HUGE congrats to Dr.(!) Hanlin Li (@hanlinliii) and Dr.(!) Nick Vincent (@nickmvincent) for their successful thesis defenses last week! Their work on data labor and data leverage truly has tremendous potential to create an AI ecosystem that is more powerful AND more equitable.

[Toby J. Li😺 (he/him) @TobyJLi]

A highlight of tonight at @nu_hci #futureofHCI: a reunion of (a subset) of @bhecht gang! @hanlinliii @jaketangosierra

[Brent Hecht @bhecht]

@geomblog Woohoo! Very grateful for all your work on this.

[Longqi Yang @ylongqi]

We are hiring **in-person** research interns for summer 2023! If you are PhD students working on Foundation Models, Graphs, ML, Causal Inference, CSS, or HAI, we’d love to hear from you! Apply here: https://t.co/usQfGF8whr