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Mark your calendars and start preparing your materials—submissions will officially open next week! This advance notice is your perfect chance to polish your papers. Stay tuned for more details on submission guidelines and deadlines. We look forward to your contributions! #AI

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Black in AI

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2 years

#ICLR2023 is planned to be to in-person, in Kigali, Rwanda! 🇷🇼😎😍🥰

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Black in AI

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Powerful moves by our very own co-founder @timnitGebru who has decided to take control of her research agenda and launch @DAIRInstitute , an independent AI Research Center! 🎉🎊🚀📈

Google fired its star AI researcher one year ago. Now she’s launching her own institute

Timnit Gebru is launching Distributed Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (DAIR) to document AI’s harms on marginalized groups

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Black in AI

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🚨We are excited to announce the launch of the BlackAIR Summer Research Grant Program providing support for AI Research projects led by Black women. This effort is in partnership with @Stanford 🚨 Info: Shout out to @lynetcha for spearheading this!

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Black in AI

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Interested in pursuing a PhD in an AI-related field? Apply to our Emerging Leaders In AI Program! The program aims to break down financial and social barriers, increasing the representation of black and brown researchers, professionals and academics through graduate admissions.

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Black in AI

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We're excited to announce the Call for Participation for the 2nd Black in AI Workshop at #NIPS2018 ! Submission deadline is August 30th & travel grant apps are due August 24th. Stay tuned for program announcement. Hope to see you all in Montreal @ #NIPS !

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Black in AI

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4 years

“Get in trouble. Good trouble. Necessary trouble.” -John Lewis

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Black in AI

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6 years

"Today, we’re announcing a Google AI research center in Africa, which will open later this year in Accra, Ghana. We’ll bring together top machine learning researchers and engineers in this new center dedicated to AI research and its applications. "😍😍

Jeff Dean (@🏡)

@JeffDean

6 years

We're continuing to expand our @GoogleAI teams around the world. We’ll be opening our first research center in Africa in #Ghana later this year! If you're a machine learning researcher interested in working in Accra, Ghana, apply:

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Black in AI

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Calling all allies! We're setting up a mentoring program and would love to have you all involved. If you work in AI (defined broadly, form below) could you please fill out this form? You can be in any stage of your career.

Black in AI membership review form

Welcome! This is a google form that the Black in AI team will use to process requests to join the Black in AI team as a member or an ally. If you are in the field of AI, please complete this form to...

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Black in AI

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4 years

It's that time of the year: 4th BAI (Virtual) Workshop @NeurIPSConf Black researchers in AI, ML and related application areas (health, agriculture, politics, economics, law etc.) are welcome to submit their work. CFP here:

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Black in AI

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3 years

We're proud to highlight participants in our Academic Program over the coming month. Each day we will highlight one incoming #BlackinAIGrads2021 . Join us in congratulating them! This program is supported by @FordFoundation & @SloanFoundation Growing🧵

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Black in AI

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Huge congratulations to @Abebab , @timnitGebru , @jovialjoy , @rajiinio , @stephdink , @KateKallot , @alondra and @tamati_biskit for your leadership in AI being recognized by @TIME !!!👏🏿👏🏿

TIME

@TIME

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TIME's new cover: The 100 most influential people in AI

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Black in AI

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Interested in pursuing a Master or PhD in an AI-related field? Apply to our Emerging Leaders In AI Program here: Participants will be part of a cohort receiving mentorship in preparing their applications, have their application fees waived

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

5 years

We're excited to announce that registrations are now open for the 3rd Black in AI Workshop and dinner co-located w/ @NeurIPSConf 2019. Hurry now and get your tickets at . Registration for this batch closes on Nov 10!

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Black in AI

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6 years

Thank you to all who attended the workshop yesterday! And many thanks to fantastic keynote speakers, contributed talk presenters, poster presenters, & our sponsors! with @red_abebe , @BrownSarahM , Moustapha Cisse, @timnitGebru , @sanmikoyejo at #NIPS2017 #NIPS #AI #MachineLearning

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Black in AI

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Appreciation post for @sindero who is a black pioneer in the field of machine learning (20y experience) and is the co-inventor of deep belief networks (co-authored "A fast learning algorithm for deep belief nets") with @geoffreyhinton in 2006!

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

6 years

"We’re providing 6-10 stipends and mentorship to individuals from underrepresented groups to study deep learning full-time for 3 months and open-source a project" OpenAI Check out the new Open AI Scholars program and spread the word !

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Black in AI

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4 years

If you are not already hyped about the 3rd @black_in_ai workshop, know that the amazing @ruha9 , Associate Professor at @Princeton will be a speaker and also be *signing* copies of her book : RACE AFTER TECHNOLOGY at the reception before the dinner !

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Black in AI

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18/n Join us in congratulating Hellina Hailu Nigatu from Addis Ababa Uni. Hellina is joining @Berkeley_EECS @berkeley_ai to complete her doctoral degree on building accessible AI tools for social good applications. Congratulations Hellina!

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Black in AI

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6/n Congratulations to Vongani Maluleke @vonekels from the University of Cape Town! Vongani will be joining @berkeley_ai @Berkeley_EECS as a PhD student working on computer vision. We're looking forward to seeing all that you will create in your PhD and beyond, Vongani!

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Black in AI

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6 years

Congratulations to Candace Ross, PhD student @MIT and @black_in_ai member, for her first author paper on building a groundbreaking model learning to associate captions with images and learning languages like kids do !

Machines that learn language more like kids do

MIT researchers have developed a semantic parser that closely mimics a child’s language-acquisition process by observing captioned videos, with no other information, and associates the words with...

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

4 years

All registered attendees of @NeurIPSConf can participate in the BAI2020 Workshop. Register: Apply for financial assistance by Nov 27th, 2020 BAI2020 is on Monday, December 7, 2020 Please join us!

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

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Join us for the 7th Annual Black in AI Workshop co-located at NeurIPS 2023 in New Orleans, LA, USA Share your research, meet with peers and explore career opportunities! We welcome a wide variety of topical areas: AI/ML, NLP, LLMs, PGMs, Applications, Demos, Theory + more

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

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1/n Congratulations to @vilarinoramon from the Uni of São Paulo, Brazil! Ramon is joining @Berkeley_EECS @berkeley_ai as a PhD student working on equity & fairness in AI. Ramon shares "I can no longer tell my own story without telling about Black in AI" Congratulations Ramon!

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

5 years

Dear Community, It is that time of the year again ! The Call for paper for the 2019 edition of the Black in AI workshop at @NeurIPSConf 2019 is out ! Deadline is July 30th 11pm UTC Submission instructions here:

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

4 years

Thanks to the winners of the #recsys2020 challenge for donating their prize money to @black_in_ai ! Your support goes a long way and is highly appreciated!

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

2 years

We invite submissions for the 6th Black in AI Workshop to be held at NeurIPS 2022. We encourage all Black researchers in fields related to AI to submit their work. The paper should involve at least one Black researcher as either a lead or co-author.

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

3 years

If you're black and are building an AI company or intend to start one in the next 2 years, fill this anonymous survey by February 28th 2021!

Black in AI Founder/Aspiring Founder Anonymous Survey (at least 20 min to fill out)

TLDR: If you're black and are building an AI company or intend to start one in the next 2 years, fill this anonymous survey by March 15th 2021! Heads up, we go in depth and it will take at least 20...

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

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11/n Congratulations to Deb Raji @rajiinio from the University of Toronoto. Deb is joining @Berkeley_EECS @berkeley_ai as a PhD student working on evaluation, audits, & accountability. Deb shares "Thanks to BAI for all their hard work in supporting students in various ways...

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@black_in_ai

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Our speaker Sonia Guimarães is a Brazilian Professor of Physics at the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica. She was the first black Brazilian woman to earn a doctorate in physics and has dedicated her career to improving the representation of black Brazilians in academia

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

4 years

Congratulations to our very own @red_abebe whose dissertation on "Designing Algorithms for Social Good" has been recognized by two separate ACM SIGs: the SIGKDD Doctoral Diss Award and an honorable mention for @ACMSIGecom Dissertation Award.

SIGKDD 2024

@kdd_news

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Rediet Abebe ( @red_abebe ), incoming assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of California at Berkeley ( @Berkeley_EECS ), earned this year's ACM SIGKDD Doctoral Dissertation Award for her Ph.D. thesis, "Designing Algorithms for Social Good." Congratulations!

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Black in AI

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6 years

Introductory remarks slides with statistics! #blackinai #NIPS #NIPS2017 #AI #MachineLearning

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Black in AI

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3 years

📢📢 Submissions for the 5th Black in AI Workshop (Virtual) co-located w/ @NeurIPSConf are now open! Black researchers in AI and related application areas (health, agriculture, politics, economics, law, etc.) are welcome to submit their work. Read more:

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5 years

"So @allelachavo – a 25-year-old Kenyan technology evangelist who works for @intel and tutors data science @UniofOxford – invented smart gloves that convert sign language movements into audio speech."

Turning air into drinking water: Africa's inspired inventors

Shortlisted contenders for the Royal Academy of Engineering Africa prize reveal their designs, including gloves that translate sign language into speech

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@black_in_ai

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We are excited to announce that the BlackAIR Summer Research Grant program has officially started 🚀🎉🎊

Black in AI

@black_in_ai

3 years

🚨We are excited to announce the launch of the BlackAIR Summer Research Grant Program providing support for AI Research projects led by Black women. This effort is in partnership with @Stanford 🚨 Info: Shout out to @lynetcha for spearheading this!

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Black in AI

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Support Black researchers submitting to #NeurIPS2020 and support our organization!

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Black in AI

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5 years

Congratulations to the PhD students of the Black in AI community who obtained the @Google PhD Fellowship ! Way to go

Announcement of the 2019 Fellowship Awardees and Highlights from the Google PhD

Posted by Susie Kim, Program Manager, University Relations In 2009, Google created the PhD Fellowship Program to recognize and support outstandin...

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Black in AI

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3 years

Hello to everyone attending @RealAAAI 's #AAAI2021 ! @black_in_ai is hosting a social on Tuesday, February 9th at 3:30 pm PST (GMT-8) centered on @robotsmarts 's latest book "Sex, Race, and Robots" which dives into ethical questions surrounding the development of robotics, AI!

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Black in AI

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3 years

Here is the schedule for the 4th @black_in_ai workshop happening this Monday, December 7th 2020! We have amazing speakers from the black diaspora ranging from Brazil, Nigeria, UK, USA who will cover topics including theoretical AI advances, startups and social science

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

4 years

Here is another opportunity to win a travel to present your work at @iclr_conf ! In partnership with @CGIAR , @ZindiAfrica is hosting a computer vision for agriculture challenge.

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

4 years

Congratulations to our very own @red_abebe whose dissertation received the 2019 @ACMsigecom Dissertation Award honorable mention. Read the announcement here: And her dissertation here:

ACM SIGecom

@AcmSIGecom

4 years

The ACM SIGecom Dissertation Award for 2019 goes to Hongyao Ma @hongyaoma , with honorary mentions going to Rediet Abebe @red_abebe and Eric Balkanski. Read more about their dissertations here:

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Amazing attendance to the second @black_in_ai workshop @ #NeurIPS18 from members and allies ....

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

6 years

Another week, another set of published papers ! Congratulations to members @AddisAbabaUnive NLP group for publishing 2 papers @coling2018 : - - Their work continues to pave the way for AI systems understanding Ethiopian languages

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

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Dear Community, 8 more days until to submit your work to the third Black in AI workshop ! We are excited to receive and showcase your work !

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@red_abebe @esube_bekele @BrownSarahM Sanmi Ezinne @onucharlesc @timnitGebru @judywawira @Moustapha_6C @databoydg Hassan and Daniel ... thanks to members , sponsors, attendees and allies for all the help

Rachel Thomas

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The @black_in_ai workshop was fantastic!!! Thank you so much to all the workshop co-chairs, volunteers, and speakers! #NeurIPS2018

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Black in AI

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4 years

Thread with thoughts on #MLKDay : It is worth setting the work we do at @black_in_ai in its historical context and think about future perspectives:

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

2 years

Are you excited to be meeting in person again to discuss AI, Machine Learning and topics related to Black in AI? Come join us in the Black in AI ICML Social co-organized with Queer in AI! We will have several networking and social activities. Sign up now!

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Black in AI

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🧵🧵🧵 One of the most interesting aspects of our community is the wide range of professional and demographic background it includes. There are many black voices. A thread on some of the profiles we're seeing as 2023 is off to a momentous start in the field of AI:

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Black in AI

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3 years

Happy #InternationalWomensDay ! Shout out to the amazing women from our community going above and beyond to make their mark in the field of AI!

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Black in AI

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6 years

Official Black in AI account for announcements about the upcoming workshop, our group, features of members, and other activities. #AI #MachineLearning #DeepLearning #DataScience Website:

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"Africa, on the other hand, might offer a context with which AI can return to its original promise: creating technology that tackles pressing global challenges like hunger, poverty, and disease.

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@black_in_ai

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Congratulations to @randi_c1 for being awarded a Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship! Keep up the great work!

Microsoft Research

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We're excited to announce the 2021 Microsoft Research PhD Fellowship recipients! For over two decades, our PhD Fellowship has supported nearly 300 outstanding students pursuing exceptional research. Learn more about our 10 new fellows:

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Black in AI

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Reminder: you can join our Google Group if you are a student/researcher/entrepreneur/engineer/practitioner in AI as a member or an ally! We're planning several exciting initiatives -- join us! Instructions on the website #AI #MachineLearning #DataScience

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Black in AI

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3 years

Are you ready for this year's speakers? They include Professors, Artists, Startup Founders working on machine learning and its application to physics, online content moderation, social sciences! If you want to know more: See you @NeurIPSConf on Dec 7th!

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@black_in_ai

1 year

Many researchers from our community including @Abebab foresaw this. Her paper identifying the issues underlying the LAION dataset is currently her pinned tweet

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

2 years

We are coming to @icmlconf ! Our joint social with Queer in AI will take place at room 308 on Wednesday July 20th with three sessions at 11am, 1PM, and 3PM! Everyone is welcome to join us!

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@black_in_ai

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Foundational work for African NLP! This PhD thesis will be a valuable resource for many years to come! Thanks for being a pioneer @davlanade

David Ifeoluwa Adelani 🇳🇬

@davlanade

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I'm happy to share the electronic copy of my PhD thesis "Natural language processing for African languages" . Happy reading especially if you are new to AfricaNLP. A big thank you to my supervisor @dklakow & the examination committee members:

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2/n Congratulations to Kaleab @kinfu_ who will be joining Johns Hopkins University @JHUCompSci to work on ML and computer vision. Kaleab shares "a big shout-out to @neuro_data for being the best advisor and making this possible!!" Shout out to *you* Kaleab!

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Excited to announce our 2nd keynote speaker Brittny Saunders @msbsaunders Deputy Comm. for Strategic Initiatives at the NYC Commission on Human Rights. She'll talk about "Local Govt. & the Challenge of Algorithmic Accountability." #NeurIPS2018 #BlackinAI

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3/n Congratulations to Favour Nerrise from UMD who's joining @Stanford_EE PhD @StanfordEng to work on neuroeng and neuromorphic comp Favour shares "grateful for the Black in AI grad program for being an oasis during the grad app process." We've loved watching you shine Favour!

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Catch our very own @timnitGebru among the women in AI profiled by @voguemagazine this year !

Women in AI: Meet the Roboticists, Researchers, and Entrepreneurs Redefining Science and Technology

With work that impacts education, wellness, and even your Facebook feed, the women of Silicon Valley are shaping the future.

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I have a calculus joke but it's not differentiated

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The Bright Continent: Tales from Africa’s AI Ecosystem — ‘Just Two Laptops and a Lot of Enthusiasm’

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3 years

Congratulations to @red_abebe , @wsisaac , @shakir_za and @png_marie for contributing to this new book exploring work, democracy & justice in the context of Artificial Intelligence Development!

Boston Review

@BostonReview

3 years

We are thrilled to announce our new book: REDESIGNING AI — coming later this spring! Exploring work, democracy, & justice in the age of automation, it features @DrDaronAcemoglu , @erikbryn , @math_rachel , @katecrawford , @shakir_za (+ more 🧵) Preorder now:

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Congratulations to @jovialjoy and @dojiboy9 ( @forethought_ai ) for making it to the @Forbes #30Under30 Enterprise Technology list ! Well done ! Our community is inspired to have high caliber innovators like you among us ! 🚀🎉🎉🎊

30 Under 30 2019: Enterprise Technology

Transforming business with machine intelligence.

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Still have some tickets available for the 2nd black in AI workshop at #NeurIPS2018 on Dec 7 th — welcome to everyone , free registration here

2nd Black in AI workshop at #NIPS2018

The second Black in AI event will be co-located with NIPS 2018 at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal (Montreal Convention Centre) in Montréal CANADA on December 7th from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm EST. The...

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

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Congrats to @eugene_ndiaye for receiving an Outstanding paper award at @icmlconf 2022 for his work entitled "Stable Conformal Prediction Sets"! Way to go!!

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"The study, published in Science on 24 October, concluded that the algorithm was less likely to refer black people than white people who were equally sick to programmes that aim to improve care for patients with complex medical needs"

Millions of black people affected by racial bias in health-care algorithms

Nature - Study reveals rampant racism in decision-making software used by US hospitals — and highlights ways to correct it.

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" @Google set up a team in 2015 and enlisted the help of @kolatubosun , a Nigerian linguist and lexicographer with Oxford University Press, to lead the years-long project of giving Google a Nigerian accent."

How Kola Tubosun and his team gave Google a Nigerian accent

The introduction of a ‘Nigerian English’ voice to Google Maps has caught the attention of users. We talk to Kola Tubosun who led the team that brought it to life to find out how

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BAI2020 Workshop @NeurIPSConf is today! 5 Invited Talks 6 contributed talks 1 Coffee Breaks 2 Social Events 1 Joint Poster session 1 Mentorship and Sponsorship Roundtables 1 Awards and Closing Remarks Breaks|Roundtables|Poster Session in GatherTown

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13/n Congratulations to Eyoel Feleke @EyoelWendwosen from Addis Ababa Institute of Technology. Eyoel will be joining the Department of Computer Science at Northeastern University to work on machine learning. Welcome to Northeastern and the Boston Black in AI community, Eyoel!

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Attending the #WiML2018 workshop at #NeurIPS2018 ? Consider attending the @black_in_ai workshop on 7 th dec too .. free registration here @timnitGebru @red_abebe @judywawira @onucharlesc

2nd Black in AI workshop at #NIPS2018

The second Black in AI event will be co-located with NIPS 2018 at the Palais des Congrès de Montréal (Montreal Convention Centre) in Montréal CANADA on December 7th from 9:00 am to 5:30 pm EST. The...

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"The same technology powering mass surveillance can be used to preserve the environment and planet. The reward structures we put in place now will shape how these skills will be used." Hassan Kané, CTO @sela_labs

An Ethical Awakening in AI

On unleashing innovation and human capital towards social and environmental impact

medium.com

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Congratulations to the African Development University team for launching the first of its kind bachelor degree in artificial intelligence in Niger! This work is done in partnership with @CodeLoccol

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Nina da Hora specializes in AI Ethics, researcher at FGV, writes for at MIT Tech Review, listed on Forbes 30 under 30. She is a fierce advocate for marginalized communities and is an organizer of the upcoming Black in AI + Queer in Social at ICML. @ninadhora

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Just a reminder that the travel grant application for the 2018 Black in AI workshop closes this Friday, August 24th and the call for papers deadline is Friday, August 31st

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22/n We could not be more thrilled to close out this thread than by congratulating Ezinne Nwankwo @ezinne_nwafrom Duke. Ezinne co-led our Academic Team while applying to graduate programs herself. Ezinne will be joining the CS PhD program at @Berkeley_EECS @berkeley_ai !

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Black in AI

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🚨🚨 Appreciation thread for @johnolafenwa , a SELF-TAUGHT Nigerian Computer Scientist who's today a Research Scientist at @MSFTResearch 's Mixed Reality & AI Lab (Cambridge,UK). He just received his FIRST PATENT Let's look at how this inventor rose from the local to global scene

Olafenwa John Ishola

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And I got my first Patent!!!

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Huge congratulations to @ubenwa_ai for closing a $2.5m seed round! They were featured at our inaugural startup showcase a few months ago! Watch this space 😎🥳

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Black in AI

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Gender shades made great strides to expose algorithmic bias! In her upcoming talk at the second @black_in_ai workshop, @rajiinio will present extension of Gender shades and introduce additional metrics for the field of algorithmic accountability !

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Great interview by @asmelashteka touching on many timely topics (NLP for Ethiopian Languages, impact of war on Tigray on his work). @lesan_ai was selected to be part of our inaugural startup showcase last December

Asmelash Teka

@asmelashteka

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I was with @TghatMedia for a conversation with my friend @Teklai_Michael . You can check our discussion on YouTube . For those who don't have the time, here are some takeaways (4 minutes read) 0/n

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Make sure to submit your abstract for the second Black in AI workshop ! Deadline is this Thursday at 5pm EST You can submit work that is in progress, work that has been submitted to another conference, work that has been published before

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@black_in_ai

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Honored to have members of our community along with allies recognized by the @nytimes cc @timnitGebru @jovialjoy @AnimaAnandkumar !

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@black_in_ai

3 years

Congratulations to @alondra for joining the White House Science Team as OSTP Deputy Director for Science and Society 👏👏🔥🔥

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@black_in_ai

6 years

Very important effort to create datasets reflecting various global cultures and populations to train AI systems ! Yet another opportunity to make the development of artificial intelligence a truly global endeavor

Google AI

@GoogleAI

6 years

Building ML models that are robust and inclusive even when learning from imperfect data is an important research challenge. To spur further progress in developing inclusive models, we are announcing the Inclusive Images Competition on Kaggle.

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@black_in_ai

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7/n Congratulations to Perez Ogayo @a_ogayo from the African Leadership University in Kenya @alueducation who'll be joining Carnegie Mellon University @SCSatCMU to work on low resource NLP. Perez shares....

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

3 years

... "I'd love to thank all my mentors, family and friends. Professors Kayode Ayodele at OAU, Tim Vogels at IST Austria, Dr Osuntuyi at OAU, Dr Iretiayo, The Imbizians :) and BAI" We're excited to see all that you'll do at UW and beyond, Wisdom!

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@black_in_ai

3 years

8/n Congratulations to Edosa Leta @edokinfel from the African Leadership Uni @alueducation . Edosa will join @UMBC to complete an MS in ML and NLP. Edosa shares "I am a pan African & aspiring entrepreneur who is passionate about tech development in Africa." Watch this space all!

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@black_in_ai

1 year

The increased popularity of AI/ML paired with consistent, grassroots work from organizations including @dsn_ai_network , @AISaturdayLagos , @ZindiAfrica , @AIMS_Next , @DeepIndaba is creating lasting, sustainable conditions for bottom-up talent development 👏🏿

Nigerians’ interest in Artificial Intelligence is at an all-time high, says Google | TechCabal

According to Google, Nigerians' search for information about Artificial Intelligence increased by 100% in 2022.

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

4 years

Concrete example of how to "ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity": When designing early access program to technologies such as #GPT3 , working early with community leaders from underrepresented groups and allocating spots for them

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

5 years

@tejuafonja Thank you so much for everything you do @tejuafonja ! Everyone is aware of the hard work put and is mobilized to level the playing field. Easier said than done but don't let this demotivate you. You're on the right track 🤗

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@black_in_ai

2 years

Limited funding is available to support the travel of academics to attend Black in AI workshop @NeuRIPS 2022. Fill the application form here by October 3rd 2022 to be considered for a travel grant:

Black in AI @ NeuRIPS 2022 Travel Grant Application

Limited funding is available to support the travel of academics to attend Black in AI workshop @NeurIPS 2022. Participants do not need to submit a paper in order to be considered for a travel grant,...

docs.google.com

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

4 years

This year has been very challenging for many members of our community and its allies. Black AI Researchers, here is an opportunity to showcase your work at this upcoming fourth @black_in_ai workshop. The submission deadline is this Friday at 11pm UTC

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@black_in_ai

6 years

Our own @timnitGebru will be in Zambia this Friday to shed light on the latest AI developments, their impact on society and the opportunities and challenges they offer in the African context

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

10 months

Join us today for an engaging panel on “AI and Society” at ICML July 2023! Room 313A/B O’Ahu

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@black_in_ai

5 years

We have 38 remote presentations .. and thank our wonderful volunteer @mmitchell_ai , Senior research scientist @Google who is helping us keep global with our remote presentations .. Thank you !

Black in AI

@black_in_ai

5 years

Amazing attendance to the second @black_in_ai workshop @ #NeurIPS18 from members and allies ....

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@black_in_ai

6 years

Full program up with 60+ poster presentations, keynote speakers, and oral presentations! #NIPS2017 #NIPS #AI #MachineLearning

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@black_in_ai

6 years

Demand for AI expertise is currently growing and would benefit from the participation of black women. Exposure to role models and mentorship is key to nurture dreams. Popular culture plays a big role in shaping aspirations too. Great read: via @blavity

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

3 years

A reminder that our website () contains information about how to: ➡️ Join us ➡️ Sponsor us ➡️ Share opportunities (jobs, fellowships, events, etc) Thank you for your support!

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Black in AI

@black_in_ai

5 years

"Next fall, the Rhodes Scholar will return to the classroom to pursue a doctorate in computer science with a focus on artificial intelligence and machine learning at Oxford University." Way to go @nijfranck !!!

Morehouse College

@Morehouse

5 years

Morehouse Man Franck Nijimbere, who graduated in May with degrees in computer science and mathematics, has been named as Morehouse College’s fifth Rhodes Scholar. The honor makes Morehouse the top producer of Rhodes Scholars among HBCUs. Info:

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@black_in_ai

4 years

We'll have an informal social at ICML on Saturday July 18 at 17:00-19:00 GMT and we will be joined by @shakir_za & @png_marie for an informal chat on shifting which communities are put in the center when designing AI systems through the decolonial AI framework

Camila

@camiladuitama1

4 years

We should encourage discussions on decolonial theory and AI in the wonderful networks created by @_LXAI , @Khipu_AI or @DeepIndaba . Recognising and promoting the groundbreaking work of the founders of the decoloniality movement (who also come from Africa and Latinamerica),

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