Anind Dey and co-collaborators Brian D. Ziebart, Andrew Maas, and J. Andrew Bagnell recieved the 2024 AAAI Classic Paper Award, a 15-year impact award recognizing their paper “Maximum entropy inverse reinforcement learning,” which was published in Proceedings of the 23rd national conference on Artificial intelligence.
Karen Fisher published the book Zaatari: Culinary Traditions of the World's Largest Syrian Refugee Camp. This book was co-created with over 2000 Syrians over 6 years to counter the effects of domicide, raise global awareness of refugees, support women's empowerment and other UN SDGs. All royalties for the book will return to the people of Zaatari Camp.
Miranda Belarde-Lewis gave the 2024 Lee Frank Lecture in Art History titled “Visual Sovereignty in an Informatic Age.” The invitation to speak included classroom visits and a lunchtime workshop with students.
Chirag Shah gave an invited talk titled “Positioning as an AI Expert, Researcher, and Developer” at the National Courts and Sciences Institute (NCSI).
Chirag Shah was also quoted in:
- An IEEE article titled “Standards Matter for Cars, Plugs, Wi-Fi—and AI?”
- A CSNBC article titled “Algorithms, bias and hallucinations: 20 important AI terms investors should know”
Katie Davis was interviewed for a Wall Street Journal article titled “They’re in Your Group Chat. But Are They Really Your Friends?” which explores how the internet has changed the meaning of friendship.