Promoting & Empowering Youth as Leaders in Climate Justice Struggles
Sept. 14, 2022, All Day
Please join us for the kick-off event of Planet Texas 2050's Fall 2022 Resilience Roundtable Series!
Provost’s Cluster and Interdisciplinary Hiring Initiative Lightning Talk Series - Whole Communities–Whole Health
July 30, 2022, 10 to 11:30 a.m.
We hope you will join us throughout the spring semester for this lightning talk series where you will have the opportunity to meet our new faculty and learn about their exciting research endeavors.
Nike: History of Disability Inclusion and Innovation
June 30, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.
Part of the Good Systems Speaker Series. Nike has a long history of disability inclusion including supporting disabled athletes, hiring people with disabilities, and inventing cutting-edge adaptive clothing.
Good System Speaker Series: Ethics and Responsible Innovation in Data-Intensive Smart Cities and Urban Mobility Management
June 30, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.
Data and information technology have transformed our daily lives and have reshaped the ways in which cities and transportation systems are governed and operated. But too often, urban and mobility analytics is couched narrowly in terms of resource optimization and management on the one hand, and privacy and surveillance on the other.
Provost’s Cluster and Interdisciplinary Hiring Initiative Lightning Talk Series - Planet Texas 2050: Bridging the Gaps in Resilience Research
June 30, 2022, 10 to 11 a.m.
Presentations from faculty in the Maya Archaeology, Environment, and Religion & Planet Texas 2050: Bridging the Gaps in Resilience Research clusters.
AI, MR, and Inclusion: Challenges and Innovations in Assistive Technologies
June 7, 2022, 3 to 4 p.m.
New digital technologies in areas such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Mixed Reality (MR) are opening new opportunities for people with disabilities.
Analyzing social media from a user-eye view with PIEGraph
June 1, 2022, 2 to 3 p.m.
Quantitative social media research has traditionally been conducted from what might be called a platform-centric view, wherein researchers sample, collect, and analyzed data based on one or more topic- or user-specific keywords.
National Science Foundation funded workshop: Moving Resilience Research to Action in the Gulf Region
May 9 to 11, 2022, All Day
This three-day virtual workshop will bring together scholars and stakeholders for the purpose of building a community of practice focused on moving climate resilience research to action in the Gulf Region.
Good Systems Postdoc Research Presentation Series - Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Using Language Similarities in Retrieval
May 4, 2022, noon to 12:45 p.m.
Most of the Web is published in languages not accessible to many potential users who can read and understand only their local languages. Previous Information Retrieval (IR) approaches, particularly those used in Cross-Lingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) and Multilingual Information Retrieval (MLIR), have focused on the translation of either queries or documents in the retrieval pipeline.