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Joining @Stanford CS & returning home to CA-Hard to leave NYC & @cornell_tech, but excited to help @StanfordHCI & Design to the next level!
James Landay
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James Landay
@landay
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design. Co-founder & Co-Director @StanfordHAI. Personal opinions, not Stanford's, jlanday.bsky.social
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Joined March 2007
- I am thrilled to share that I'm not quitting my job at Stanford and joining another university for the 8th year in a row. I'm on a streak!
- I am honored to have been named to this award. But it was really won by my students & postdocs. I feel so lucky to have the chance to work with such a great set of people over my career. I’m not done yet as it is super fun to watch students develop and grow into great leaders.Replying to @sigchi
- Thoughts on the @OpenAI drama. Yet another reason we need academic AI centers like @StanfordHAI—we can’t leave the important issues in AI to industry players who have conflicting values they can’t manage—as the outcome here shows, money wins in industry rather than good ideas.
- .@StevenZapata makes an impassioned argument for ethical use of artists work in generative AI models. Stealing people’s livelihoods. Open source is propagating these problems instead of protecting them-“poisonous trees that are only going to produce poisoned fruit.”
- So proud of @mitchellgordon and his brilliant PhD defense talk on “Human-AI Interaction Under Societal Disagreement”. Great lead advising by @msbernst! Excellent example of human-centered AI research for @StanfordHAI. On to his faculty position @MITEECS! Congrats!
- “Moreover, he says, it [ML] is the first engineering field that is humancentric, focused on the interface between people and technology.” I work in an interdisciplinary engineering field: human-computer interaction. It’s pretty human-centric. ML is not.
- My friend and colleague @drfeifei kicks off the book party — in conversation with Turing Award winner John Hennessy.
- First in person lecture in over 2 years (though hybrid with ~25 people in the room and ~180 on zoom). The shoes? Ge Wang stylee! (@ The Quad - @stanford in Stanford, CA) swarmapp.com/c/hWpFfJ04Zmk
- #chi2022 should probably track how many people caught COVID there... we've had a lot of cases that I've seen (I'm stuck here waiting it out). I suspect hundreds got it...
- I need to always remember that it is nice when faculty respond to email from prospective students. #cleaninggarage @bradamyers @cmuhcii
- Yesterday, I was proud to see the strong PhD defense of @ParastooAbtahi. She completed a brilliant PhD on "From Haptic Illusions to Beyond-Real Interactions in Virtual Reality". Parastoo started working with me and @dSeanMustard in Mechanical Engineering 6 years ago. 1/5
- Replying to @landayAs promised, we spoke to artists who are impacted by Generative AI (including @kortizart). We've added a session with Rebecca Blake, a designer who is an advocate with @GAguild, & designer/illustrator @StevenZapata
