Good Systems: Living and Working with Robots

Hello Austin's brilliant roboticists and curious makers -

For our November event, we’ve partnered with Good Systems – a UT Austin research grand challenge focused on defining, evaluating, and building ethical human + AI systems to benefit society – to host Dr. Elliott Hauser as our speaker.

Hauser will discuss the Good Systems “Living and Working with Robots” project and speak generally about Ethical AI and human-robot interactions, welcoming questions from attendees.

Speaker: Dr. Elliott Hauser
Topic: Living and Working with Robots

Date: November 17th
Time: 6 pm – 8 pm
Location: The Glickman Conference Center in Patton Hall - RLP 1.302E

• Here is a link to a map – the building is located on the East Mall just behind Gregory Gym

Parking: San Jacinto Garage

• 2401 San Jacinto Blvd, Austin, TX 78705

Food & Drinks: Tacodeli, cold brew, and sparkling water!

Good Systems Website: https://bridgingbarriers.utexas.edu/good-systems
Meet the Team: https://bridgingbarriers.utexas.edu/good-systems-team

Who is our speaker?

• Elliott Hauser (he/him/his) studies the ways information systems condition social reality. His work focuses on sites and situations where actions are taken in light of information. He has investigated the computational production of time, the documentary production of scientific facts, and conceptions of temporality in data science education. His current research program examines robotics as a site of human and non-human action in light of information. He is Co-Lead of Living and Working With Robots, an eleven PI collaboration across seven disciplines to deploy and study robots on the UT Austin campus using sociotechnical methods. Elliott holds a PhD in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the Royster Society of Fellows.

Questions?
Give Anthony Costello a shout - anthony@weareorbis.com