Jason Leigh, Author at Hawai‘i Data Science Institute

INDIGENOUS PROTOCOLS AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Jason Leigh — Tue, 05 Mar 2019 06:07:29 +0000

March 1-2, 2019The Hawaii Data Science Institute, the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA), and the Academy for Creative Media System jointly hosted Old Ways New’s 1st workshop in the world bringing Indigenous researchers into discussions surrounding the future of Artificial Intelligence.

The workshop focused on how to progress the conceptual theory and practice of next level of A.I. The key question the workshop will address is this: from an Indigenous perspective, what should our relationship with A.I. be? Related questions include: how can Indigenous epistemologies and ontologies contribute to the global conversation regarding society and A.I.? How do we broaden discussions regarding the role of technology in society beyond the largely culturally homogeneous research labs and Silicon Valley startup culture? How do we imagine a future with A.I. that contributes to the flourishing of all humans and non-humans?

The first workshop took place March 1 – 2, 2019, at the Hawaii Data Science Institute (HI-DSI) and brought together approximately twenty mainly Indigenous scholars and artists to discuss the questions above. A subset of the first workshop attendees will participate in a writing workshop in May, 2019 (also at HI-DSI) to compose a white paper capturing the outcomes of these conversations.

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Supercomputing 2018

Jason Leigh — Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:29:33 +0000

Nov 12, 2018:

Funded by the National Science Foundation, SAGE2 version 4 (Scalable Amplified Group Environment) was demonstrated at SC2018 in Dallas Texas. SAGE is software for driving large-scale displays such as CyberCANOEs (Cyber-enabled Collaboration Analysis Navigation and Observation Environments) turning them into big-data collaboration environments that enable users (researchers, engineers, policymakers and artists) to display, organize and manipulate large quantities of data in the form of visualizations to come to decisions with greater speed, accuracy, comprehensiveness and confidence.

SAGE was shown at the StarLight booth as well as three booths on the show floor run by Scinet – SC’s networking operations center- which used SAGE as a dashboard for monitoring the hundreds of gigabit network traffic flow during the conference.

SAGE is co-developed by the Laboratory for Advanced Visualization & Applications (at the University of Hawaii) and the Electronic Visualization Lab (at the University of Illinois at Chicago). SAGE is the most widely used open source software for driving large-scale displays and has received funding of more than $10M from the National Science Foundation, Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, Department of Energy, Academy for Creative Media, and other sources.

SAGE2 showing network traffic at SC18 in Dallas, Texas

SAGE2 in the StarLight booth at SC18 in Dallas, Texas

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