<div dir="ltr"><div><font color="#000000"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">The University of Chicago Data Science Institute, Department of Statistics, Department of Computer Science, and Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics are proud to announce our 2024-25 </span><a href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/news/2024-25-distinguished-speaker-series/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Distinguished Speaker Series</a><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">. Join us for stimulating talks from leading data science researchers exploring and expanding the fundamental methods and approaches that transform large and complex datasets into knowledge and action.</span></font><span aria-label="" style="box-sizing:inherit;height:8px;display:block;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><font color="#000000" style=""><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Dr. Max Nickel, </span></font>research scientist manager at FAIR, Meta AI<font color="#000000" style=""><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">, will present the </span><a href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/events/max-nickel-fair-meta-ai-towards-social-foundations-of-ai/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">first talk of the series</a>, titled </font>“Towards Social Foundations of AI.” Join us on Friday, Nocember 8 in John Crerar Library, room 390. <span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures;color:rgb(0,0,0)">A lunch social starts at noon before the lecture at 12:30 p.m. Find more talks on our <a href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/news/2024-25-distinguished-speaker-series/" style="">website</a>.</span></div></div>