Batya Friedman received the Future of Life Award from the Future of Life Institute for her pioneering work in Value Sensitive Design (VSD). The award, which includes a $50,000 prize, honors researchers who have integrated ethics and safety into computing and AI, emphasizing the importance of aligning these technologies with human values. 

Melanie Walsh was invited to participate in Mozilla’s first Responsible Computing Challenge (RCC) global conclave hosted in Kerala, India. She participated on behalf of the Responsible Datasets in Contexts Project, which is an RCC awardee.  

Adam Moore wrote a book titled Intellectual Property: Moral and Legal Foundations, which will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2025.  

Ben Lee, along with co-author Jamie Mahowald, had their paper titled “Integrating Visual and Textual Inputs for Searching Large-Scale Map Collections with CLIP” accepted to the Computational Humanities Research Conference (CHR 2024), where it also received the Best Long Paper Award.  

Melanie Walsh was invited to give a talk titled “AI + DEI? Investigating Automated Diversity Audits in Public Libraries,” at the UCLA Critical Data Lab (DataX). In her talk, she discussed new research on the rise of automated DEI audits in public library collections. 

Melanie Walsh was invited by CNRS AISSAI (AI for Science, Science for AI) to give a talk titled “What do LLMs ‘know’ about poetry?” at the Thematic Semester Digital Humanities and Artificial Intelligence final conference. 

Jacob Wobbrock was interviewed for the article “iSchool’s Wobbrock Honored with Lasting Impact Award,” which highlights the ACM UIST 2024 Lasting Impact Award he and co-authors Andrew D. Wilson (Microsoft Research) and Yang Li (Google DeepMind) received for their 2007 paper, “Gestures without libraries, toolkits, or training: A $1 Recognizer for User Interface Prototypes.”