Carnegie Mellon University

S3D Fall 2024-2025

Distinguished Seminar Series/S3D Seminar Series

Upcoming Seminars:

Cynthia Dwork Distinguished 8/28/24 Prediction, Fairness, and … Complexity Theory?
Denae Ford Robinson Distinguished 9/4/24 Disrupting Developer Dynamics: AI-Driven Innovations' Influence on Communities
Amulya Yadav Seminar 10/4/24

Explainable AI for Non-Profits
Consistently Crossing the Bridge from Development to Deployment

Marsha Chechik Distinguished 11/6/24
Satish Chandra Distinguished 11/12/24
Nick Feamster Distinguished 1/29/25
Vladimir Filkov Distinguished 2/5/25
Danah Boyd Distinguished 4/30/25

 

 

Past Seminars

2024-2025

Thomas Zimmermann 2/19/24 The Incredible Machine: Developer Productivity and the Impact of AI on Productivity
Bogdan Vasilescu 2/28/24 A Tasty Strudel Recipe for Sustainable Open-Source Ecosystems
Mani Srivastava 3/20/24

Enabling Performant and Trustworthy Learning-enabled CPS-IoT Systems

Premkumar Devanbu 4/24/24

Bimodality in Software

David Rand  5/1/24

Durably reducing conspiracy beliefs through dialogues with AI

2023-2024

Pernille Bjørn

 1/18/23

 Diversity in Computer Science

Dr. Margaret-Anne Storey (Distinguished) 

1/25/23

From Automating Software Development to Empowering Software Developers

Junming Huang 1/26/23

 

Historical comparison of gender inequality in scientific careers across countries and disciplines

Miryung Kim (Distinguished)

4/19/23

Software Engineering for AI

Mark Guzdial (Distinguished)

4/26/23

 Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science

Travis Breaux 8/30/2023
Legal Accountability as Software Quality
Mayank Goel 9/27/2023

A Billion Medical Devices - Using Far-From-Perfect Machine Learning in Healthcare

Torgeir Dingsøyr 11/1/2023

A Teamwork Effectiveness Model for Agile Software Development

Daniela Damian
(Distinguished)
11/8/2023

The Inclusive Developer: Perspectives and Considerations for Building Inclusive Software

Andrew Begel 11/15/2023

Building Inclusive Workplaces through Elective Working Relationships

Owolabi Legunsen (Distinguished) 11/29/2023

Specializing Runtime Verification for Software Testing

Yi Wu 12/8/2023 Language Model meets Reinforcement Learning: Building Strong Language Agents for Strategic Gameplay


2022-2023

Amy Zhang 2/23/22

Empowering Users and Communities in Social Media Governance

Anita Woolley 4/20/22

A Transactive Systems Framework of Collective Intelligence:
Teaching Algorithms How to Detect Teamwork

Chris Bail 5/4/22 AI Chat Assistants can Improve Conversations
Carter Butts (Distinguished) 11/30/22
Inference with Many Networks
Daniel Jackson (Distinguished) 12/7/22 The Essence of Software
Hirokazu Shirado 12/8/22

Individual and Collective Learning in Human Groups Facing Danger

Helen Nissenbaum

2/15/22

Privacy as Contextual Integrity: Challenging Practice and Challenged by it.

Jon Kleinberg 12/2/22

The Challenge of Understanding What Users Want: Inconsistent Preferences and Engagement

Lingfei Wu 11/17/22

Remote Teams Fuse Fewer Ideas

Patrick Park 11/16/22

The Centre Cannot Hold: Online Polarization and the Paradox of Network Diversity

Norman Sadeh 11/14/22

Privacy in the Age of AI and the Internet of Things