SymSys Society

Today we had an awesome time talking to Amir Goldberg, who is a Stanford GSB professor and the co-director of the Computational Culture Lab.

The theme for the California Cognitive Science Conference is Constructing Happiness. It will be held on April 27th, 2019 at UC Berkeley. cssa.berkeley.edu/ccsc19.html

So rewarding to host @stanfordsymsys alumni at the @SymSysSociety Pathways into Tech event tonight. Sincere convos on choosing a meaningful career path and ethics on the job. Why we ❤️ SymSys!

SWE? PM? UX? What does it all mean? If you're trying to figure out your future (who isn't?), we've got the event for YOU! Hear straight from SymSys alumni in industry about what it actually means to be a PM, UX Researcher, SWE, or data scientist.

BIG NEWS! @StanfordHAI says “hi” to the world! :) We are launching the biggest effort ever in human-centered #AI research, education and public outreach!

"I figured that being part of an awesome group of advising fellows and being paid to talk about courses or help students out seemed like too good of a gig to pass up." - Darian Martos, SymSys '19. symsyssociety.org/blog/2019/2/27…

The Stanford SymSys Society Board has worked hard to plan events this year, but they make sure to take breaks for boba. 😆

We had fun refining our rational speech act models while playing Codenames (and other games) at Special D this year.

Thanks to everyone who came to our Black Mirror & Pizza event! Hope the episode we watched raised some questions about consciousness and uploading minds to the cloud. 🤔🤔🤔

"[SymSys] sets you up to approach the world with an incredibly capable and sharp critical eye,” said Zavain Dar ’10 M.S. ‘12, a lecturer in the program. stanforddaily.com/2019/01/23/uni…

Check out this Stanford Daily article on our event last week! stanforddaily.com/2019/01/22/sym…

Having a doctor who is warm and reassuring actually improves your health, research by social psychologists Lauren Howe and Kari Leibowitz shows. stanford.io/2sBWX5Y

What makes people smarter than machines? Reading list for my NYU class "Advancing AI through Cognitive Science" has paired papers in AI and CogSci organized by topic, highlighting key ingredients for building machines that learn and think like people. brendenlake.github.io/AAI-site/

We have a symposium coming up next Friday, 4:30 pm in Gates 104! We hope these presentations can ignite insightful conversations about ethics and technology. goo.gl/forms/eMDWnr7R…

I am thrilled to announce that my first book, THE WAR FOR KINDNESS will be published on June 4th, and is available for preorder now! Here are some reflections on the (3+ year!) process of writing it: penguinrandomhouse.com/books/550616/t…

We’re gearing up for the 2019 edition of Stanford CS224N: Natural Language Processing with Deep Learning. Starts Jan 8—over 500 students enrolled—using PyTorch—new Neural MT assignments—new lectures on transformers, subword models, and human language. web.stanford.edu/class/cs224n/

The #SymbolOfTheYear for 2018 is #MeToo, for the second year in a row. symsys.stanford.edu/viewing/htmldo…

Happy New Year! We're excited for what 2019 will bring to the SymSys community.