2nd Annual Smart Cities and AI Innovations Symposium
May 2, 2024, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
This robust program will feature presenters from multiple universities across Texas and beyond, as well as smart mobility professionals working in our cities. Students from the Urban Information Lab at UT Austin will also present their research in this area, further generating discussion on this timely topic.
Humanizing Pedagogies: Learning In and Through Water Across Educational Contexts
May 1, 2024, noon to 1 p.m.
Join us for this conversation with educators that operate in diverse pedagogical sites, ranging from using the sacred waters of Texas to understand Indigenous lifeways, theater-based embodied practice for learners to connect with their own bodies, and learning about water management from past societies to link to our current context.
Community Resource Day
April 27, 2024, All Day
WCWH Community Resource Day
Artists and Scientists in Dialog: Reflections on the Way of Water
April 25, 2024, noon to 1 p.m.
In this special edition of Planet Texas 2050’s Resilience Roundtable Series, Environmental and Water Resource Engineering Professors Paola Passalacqua and Matt Bartos will reflect on their experience witnessing the Way of Water: Onion Creek with Artistic Director Allison Orr and Producer Lisa Byrd of Forklift Danceworks.
Disinformation Day 2024
April 25 to May 2, 2024, 9 a.m. to noon
this virtual event brings together researchers and thought leaders working across disciplines and sectors, focusing on developing AI tools for use by journalists, fact-checkers, and researchers. The event will feature three keynote talks and a panel discussion covering a wide range of topics. Viewers are encouraged to participate in interactive Q&As following each session.
In the Lab and the Bay: Navigating Water Contaminants Along the Texas Coastal Bend
April 17, 2024, noon to 1 p.m.
In this panel, we will discuss how researchers and managers at the Marine Science Institute and the City of Corpus Christi are working to shed light on the interplay between contaminants and aquatic ecosystems, the techniques to trace their presence, the impacts they can have on human and environmental health, as well strategies for their mitigation.
Whole Communities-Whole Health Research Showcase 2024
April 12, 2024, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Whole Communities-Whole Health Research Showcase 2024
Preserving Digital Images and Data: Procedural, Policy, and Privacy Issues
April 3, 2024, noon to 1 p.m.
21st century media pose challenges to preserving the historical record. Collecting institutions need guidance and new strategies in order to save selective cellphone video, GPS data, and video from surveillance cameras, drones, and police bodycams. In this Talk, Howard Besser will discuss how saving this type of material poses procedural, policy, and privacy issues.
2024 Good Systems Symposium
March 27 to 28, 2024, All Day
Join Good Systems at UT Austin for its fourth annual symposium exploring the future of human-centered, values-driven artificial intelligence. Connect with an interdisciplinary and cross-sector community of faculty leaders, researchers, students, professionals, and civic leaders to discuss the most pressing opportunities and challenges in Ethical AI.
Conceptualising Trust -- and what it means for Artificial Intelligence
March 22, 2024, 11 a.m. to noon
Conceptualising Trust -- and what it means for Artificial Intelligence