Past Events
December 2024 | |
| Wed 11 Dec 2024 11:00 - 12:00 |  AdSolve – Addressing Socio-technical Limitations of LLMs for Medical and Social ComputingCentre for Human-Centred Computing Professor Maria Liakata delves into the £3.5M Responsible Ai UK funded Keystone Project, "AdSolve – Addressing Socio-technical Limitations of LLMs for Medical and Social Computing". Moderated by Dr. Shoaib Ehsan, Deputy Chair of the Equities Committee at RAi UK, in this live session Professor Liakata will share insights from the AdSolve team's work and critical challenges of deploying Large Language Models (LLMs) in healthcare and legal systems. From biases and privacy leaks to flawed... |
| Sun 1 - Fri 6 Dec 2024 |  Dagsthul Workshop: Human in the Loop Learning through Grounded Interaction in Games
Dec 01 – Dec 06, 2024,
Schloss Dagsthul,
Germany.Centre for Human-Centred Computing Professor Massimo Poesio is coordinating one of the competitive and prestigious Dagstuhl Perspective Workshops at Schloss Dagsthul, the Leibniz Center for Informatics, intended to identify promising new fields and research directions in computer science. QMUL's workshop, Human in the Loop Learning through Grounded Interaction in Games, organised in collaboration with the universities of Trento, Regensburg, Utrecht and Illinois, will bring together researchers from around the world to look at... |
November 2024 | |
| Tue 12 - Wed 13 Nov 2024 |  Understanding the AI Revolution: Risks Imagined and Real.
Lecture 3 - Towards a Rational Public Policy on AICentre for Human-Centred Computing Prof. Shalom Lappin discusses how current AI systems are primarily designed and supported by large tech companies. He addresses the recent debate on whether AI should be regulated to prevent harm and promote social benefit, which often focuses on how to regulate these companies. He explores various legislative regimes and regulatory mechanisms implemented in different countries, considering their motivations and effectiveness in achieving their stated objectives. Prof. Lappin emphasises that... |
October 2024 | |
| Tue 29 Oct 2024 18:00 - 19:30 | Understanding Artificial Intelligence
Lecture 2 - Dangers Imagined and Real Centre for Human-Centred Computing Professor Shalom Lappin continues his lecture series presenting the core ideas of his forthcoming book, Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Neither Catastrophe nor Redemption (Polity Books, 2025). Prof. Lappin will consider some of the apocalyptic scenarios envisioned by various commentators as a consequence of the AI revolution. He will argue that these scenarios generally lack clear factual grounding in the actual capabilities of existing systems or those likely to emerge in the... |
| Tue 15 Oct 2024 18:00 - 19:30 |  Understanding the AI Revolution: The Roots of the Deep Learning Transformation.
Professor Shalom LappinCentre for Human-Centred Computing The first of Professor Shalom Lappin's public lecture series where he will present the core ideas of his forthcoming book, Understanding Artificial Intelligence: Neither Catastrophe nor Redemption (Polity Books, 2025). Lecture 1 - The Roots of the Deep Learning Transformation, 15 October 2024 - 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM In this talk, Prof. Shalom Lappin provides a brief history of AI, tracing its origins from the immediate postwar period through the fluctuations in funding and support during the... |
June 2024 | |
| Wed 12 Jun 2024 15:00 - 17:00 |  Entrepreneurs Club event with Prof Andy BushbyFaculty of Science and Engineering Prof Andy Bushby (Founder and CTO of Ultima Forma) will present the story behind the founding of Ultima Forma, a disruptive materials engineering company. Join us for networking afterwards, refreshments will be provided. Please complete the registraton form via the link below. |
| Fri 7 Jun 2024 11:00 - 12:00 | Seminar: A social psychology approach to fostering inclusion in music technology education Centre for Human-Centred Computing Abstract: Organised by C4DM/AIM/EECS/WHEN, in this talk Dr Eddie Dobson will address the considerable challenges facing Women and minority gender professionals (WMGP) in the audio industries, which are are serviced by a majority white, cis, able... |
| Thu 6 Jun 2024 15:00 - 17:00 | Inclusion/engagement workshop in music technology education and reflections and broader implications Centre for Human-Centred Computing For the colleagues who identify as women, we will have a workshop with Eddie Dobson organised by the Women in Higher Education Network. In this workshop Dr Eddie Dobson will look at new research on engagement in music technology education, and... |
February 2024 | |
| Thu 29 Feb 2024 |  Night of Science and Engineering 2024Faculty of Science and Engineering This is an exclusive VIP reception showcasing our world-leading science and engineering and how diversity and social mobility are at the heart of Queen Mary's values and key to our success. The evening will introduce Dr Karen Salt from UK Research and Innovation along with two of our amazing alumni, a polar explorer and a leading industrialist, and one of our top professors whose research has transformed the treatment of hundreds of thousands of patients and has even been featured on a royal... |