<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><h3 class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 60px;font-size:13px;font-stretch:normal;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1px;text-align:center">THE COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE WORKSHOP PRESENTS</h3><h1 class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header3" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:40px;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;font-stretch:normal;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:5px;padding:0em;text-align:center">TOM GRIFFITHS</h1><h3 class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header3" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:13px;font-stretch:normal;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1px;padding:0em;text-align:center">HENRY R. LUCE PROFESSOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CONSCIOUSNESS AND CULTURE IN THE DEPARTMENTS OF PSYCHOLOGY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE</h3><h3 class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header3" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:13px;font-stretch:normal;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1px;padding:0em;text-align:center">PRINCETON UNIVERSITY</h3><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><p class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header3" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0em;text-align:center;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px">The<span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(66,139,202);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">Computational Social Science Workshop<span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>at the University of Chicago cordially invites you to attend this week’s talk:</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><div class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header3" style="box-sizing:border-box;padding:0em;text-align:center;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><h2 class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header" style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1.2;color:rgb(34,34,34);margin:0px 0px 60px;font-size:30px;font-stretch:normal;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:5px"><a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/tom_griffiths/blob/master/ComputationalCognitiveRevolution.pdf" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(66,139,202);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">ADVENTURES IN SCALING PSYCHOLOGY<span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></a></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p></div><p class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-footertext2" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:justify;font-size:14px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Summary:</span><span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>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.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><h4 class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header3" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:12px;font-stretch:normal;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1px;padding:0em;text-align:center">THURSDAY, 5/16/2019</h4><h4 class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header3" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:12px;font-stretch:normal;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1px;padding:0em;text-align:center">11:00AM-12:20PM</h4><h4 class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header3" style="box-sizing:border-box;font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;line-height:1.2;margin:0px 0px 10px;font-size:12px;font-stretch:normal;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:1px;padding:0em;text-align:center">KENT 120</h4><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><p class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-pfblock-header3" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0em;text-align:center;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px">A light lunch will be provided by Noodles, Etc.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><p class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-footertext2" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:justify;font-size:14px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:700">Tom Griffiths</span><span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span>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<span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><em style="box-sizing:border-box">Algorithms to live by</em>, introducing ideas from computer science and cognitive science to a general audience.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px 0px 10px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"><br style="box-sizing:border-box"></p><hr style="box-sizing:content-box;height:0px;margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(238,238,238);color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif;font-size:14px"><p class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-footertext" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.8px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif">The 2018-2019<span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(66,139,202);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">Computational Social Science Workshop<span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>meets Thursdays from 11 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. in Kent 120. All interested faculty and graduate students are welcome.</p><p class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-footertext" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px auto 10px;text-align:justify;font-size:10.8px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Raleway,sans-serif">Students in the Masters of Computational Social Science program are expected to attend and join the discussion by posting a comment on the<span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/tom_griffiths/issues" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(66,139,202);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">issues page<span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span></a>of the<span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/tom_griffiths" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(66,139,202);box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">workshop’s public repository on GitHub.</a><span class="gmail-m_-5313002762301470147gmail-Apple-converted-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