Assoc. Prof. of Comp. Science @uchicagocs / Human Computer Integration Lab / XR, haptics, hw / HCI lab: lab.plopes.org / music: plopesmusic.org
Chicago, IL
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Text or video is not only form AI can take.
In embodied-ai.tech (#CHI2026, Best Paper 🏆) we create an embodied AI that acts via muscle stimulation to perform physical tasks: e.g., place a bike on a bus rack and more!
piped.video/watch?v=pJM2Z8mm…
by @yun_yh_ @romainnith
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I have a professional and personal interest in accessibility for the visually-impaired. Matthew Shifrin's "Blind Guy Travels" is an outstanding podcast that is unfortunately way too short. Shifrin does a bunch of amazing stuff, like LEGO for the blind.
radiotopia.fm/podcasts/blind…
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Come work in our data science institute, incredible team of scholars: datascience.uchicago.edu/abo…
Job Opportunities Alert:
Associate Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/194358
Assistant Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/194104
EOE / Vet / Disability
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Join us for the 2026 Safadi Lecture on Wednesday, October 7th, at 10 am at the Rubenstein Forum. The lecture will be presented by David J. Anderson, PhD (Caltech).
“Neural circuits and population dynamics controlling innate social behaviors and their underlying internal states”
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What do we actually mean when we talk about “AGI”?
Enjoyed discussing this with George Musser for his latest piece in @sciam.
scientificamerican.com/artic…
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That was fun indeed! Thanks James, Benjamin, Alice and Blaise for organizing! And Santa Fe institute for hosting us!
Just back from an intense couple of days at Santa Fe Institute where I co-hosted a symposium on Symbiogenesis with James Evans and Blaise Agüera y Arcas. Speakers included our host, David Krakauer, Chris Kempes, Melanie Mitchell, Eric Karsenti, Olaf Witkowski, Michael Levin, Thomas Moynihan, Hirokazu Shirado, Lav Varshey, Pedro Lopes, and Melissa Valentine. Many future collaborations hatched.
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TTIC is hiring Research Assistant Professors! 3-year, fully funded role — no teaching required, full research freedom, strong mentorship & collaborations. Join a top #CS research community in Chicago. Apply by Dec 1: ttic.edu/facapp #CSFaculty #CSJobs
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Who cares about AI consciousness ?
We have a new cat 😎🐈⬛😅
New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: on.natgeo.com/JRuaGj
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高円寺が好きで住んでる人、遊びに来る人って、人間くさい雑多な雰囲気に惹かれてますよね〜🌝
この写真のJR高架下の個人飲食店街などがよく例に挙げられます。
...で、昨今の高円寺を揺るがしている再開発はまさにこういう場所を潰し、＜キレイでオシャレ＞にしようとしているナンセンスな計画🥲🥲
高円寺が「世界で最もクールな街」ランキングで第8位に選出👑
街の個性を大切にしながら、さまざまな文化やスタイルを受け入れている点を評価
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+ Videos must be live streamed with a member of the PC for liveliness confirmation and an atomic clock signal sent to CERN for confirmation of timestamp.
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Fantastic interview with Nicholas Hatsopoulos from the @UChicago_Brains Neuroscience Institute on regaining the sense of touch! Give it a listen / watch !
Could you regain a sense of touch, using only your thoughts? UChicago neuroscientist Nicholas Hatsopoulos explains his research mapping the brain's neural pathways—and creating brain-machine interfaces that could help restore movement for patients. ms.spr.ly/6017adB2H
ALT Glowing, X-ray-like human hand with bones in blue and orange, glowing points at joints. Top: BIG BRAINS PODCAST logo with colorful brain. Bottom left: \"Recreating a sense of touch, using our minds\". Bottom right: \"LATEST EPISODE\".
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Quite the lineup for the symposium on computational fabrication!
We are thrilled to announce our incredible lineup of Keynote Speakers for #SCF2026 in Tokyo! 🗼✨
Talk titles and abstracts will be posted soon as they are confirmed. More information here: scf.acm.org/2026/keynotes.ht…
ALT Headshots of the five SCF 2026 keynote speakers along with their names and affiliations. Top row: Mackenzie Leake (Adobe Research), Danny Kaufman (Adobe Research), and Lining Yao (UC Berkeley). Bottom row: Huaishu Peng (University of Maryland) and Shoji Takeuchi (The University of Tokyo).
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Nihar Shah did a heroic experiment for TMLR: he spent 20-25 hours over two weeks interviewing authors of seemingly low-quality submissions about their own papers.
He confirmed what we all suspected: people submitting these papers have *no idea* what is going on in them.
TMLR has faced a deluge of submissions, necessitating stricter desk rejection policies due to limited reviewer capacity
Co-EiC Nihar Shah reached out to authors of 10 papers slated for desk reject. Could they answer questions about their *own* submission?
medium.com/@TmlrOrg/asking-a…
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My heart is aching when I read this news.
NSF founded my early work in sodium battery in 2010 when no VC no investment believed our ideas. My early work was curiosity driven and NSF allowed me to take that risk. And we succeeded.
This is going to cost future generations, a lot.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has issued a 10-page memo signaling a retreat from its traditional role of giving grants to individual researchers to pursue their best ideas and to train the next generation of scientists.
Instead, the memo makes clear, NSF will devote the bulk of its resources to addressing the research priorities of President Donald Trump and his administration, many of them technology focused. scim.ag/4ipE1kY
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We're happy to share that our MakerSpace Open Lab is returning this fall! Check out the dates below and the details on our website to learn more. education.fnal.gov/program/m… #FermilabPrograms #FermilabMakers
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Do you want to serve as a juror for CHI Workshops? If you meet the criteria shown below, apply!
To apply, email workshops@chi2027.acm.org with your name, affiliation, CV, and a brief statement (~150 words) by Monday, Sep 28, 2026.
See chi2027.acm.org/for-authors/… for info.
#CHI2027
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The Neuroscience Institute is pleased to welcome new members to the community. In total, 11 faculty members joined the Institute in the 2025-2026 academic year.
Read more: neuroscience.uchicago.edu/me…
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I joined the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Chicago, incredible group of people alongside new members: Julia Cox, John Downey, Charles Greenspon, Joshua Jacobs, Sumin Jang, Adam Martersteck, Samuel Muscinelli, Marcella Noorman
Lucas Pinto, Zinan Zhou!
The Neuroscience Institute is pleased to welcome new members to the community. In total, 11 faculty members joined the Institute in the 2025-2026 academic year.
Read more: neuroscience.uchicago.edu/me…
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Thomas asks important questions here for the field: the current peer review setup is that authors **understand what they write about**. How to handle this new trend of submissions to @arxiv_org where... Authors don't understand their own contents!!!
We are seeing a new trend in submissions to @arxiv (and presumably to conferences and journals): Authors submitting papers whose contents they likely do not understand. 1/
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