[Colloquium] Thursday, 5/16 | Tom Griffiths at the Computational Social Science Workshop

[Nora Nickels]

THE COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP PRESENTSTOM GRIFFITHSHENRY R.
LUCE PROFESSOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CONSCIOUSNESS AND CULTURE IN THE
DEPARTMENTS OF PSYCHOLOGY AND COMPUTER SCIENCEPRINCETON UNIVERSITY



The Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>at the University
of Chicago cordially invites you to attend this week’s talk:


ADVENTURES IN SCALING PSYCHOLOGY
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/tom_griffiths/blob/master/ComputationalCognitiveRevolution.pdf>


Summary: Psychology has traditionally been a laboratory discipline, focused
on small-scale experiments conducted in person. However, recent
technological innovations have made it possible to collect far more data
from far more people than ever before. In this talk, I will explore some of
the consequences of being able to conduct psychological research at a
larger scale, highlighting some of the tools that we have developed for
doing so. In particular, I will talk about using a platform for large-scale
behavioral simulations to study collaborative memory, using convolutional
neural networks to explore human categorization with naturalistic images,
and using machine learning in conjunction with cognitive models to both
predict and explain human decisions.


THURSDAY, 5/16/201911:00AM-12:20PMKENT 120


A light lunch will be provided by Noodles, Etc.



Tom Griffiths is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Information Technology,
Consciousness and Culture in the Departments of Psychology and Computer
Science at Princeton University. His research explores connections between
human and machine learning, using ideas from statistics and artificial
intelligence to understand how people solve the challenging computational
problems they encounter in everyday life. Tom completed his PhD in
Psychology at Stanford University in 2005, and taught at Brown University
and the University of California, Berkeley before moving to Princeton. He
has received awards for his research from organizations ranging from the
American Psychological Association to the National Academy of Sciences, and
is a co-author of the book *Algorithms to live by*, introducing ideas from
computer science and cognitive science to a general audience.




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The 2018-2019 Computational Social Science Workshop
<https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop>meets Thursdays
from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in Kent 120. All interested faculty and graduate
students are welcome.

Students in the Masters of Computational Social Science program are
expected to attend and join the discussion by posting a comment on the issues
page
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/tom_griffiths/issues>of
the workshop’s public repository on GitHub.
<https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/tom_griffiths> Further
instructions are documented in the Computational Social Science
Workshop’s README
on Github. <https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/README>
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