Bill Ingram
@waingram.bsky.social
Associate Professor & Associate Dean, Virginia Tech University Libraries | Research in Digital Libraries, Information Retrieval, NLP, Scholarly Big Data & AI Ethics | Runner | Tennis player | Nature lover | Dad
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8307-8844
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8307-8844
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Look at this terrifying scene: happy, healthy animals running through co-located wind and solar energy farm cranking out clean energy in a grassy field.
I can see now why people would rather have a field of oil pumps and pipelines instead 🤦♂️
#energysky #🔋 #⚡️job
I can see now why people would rather have a field of oil pumps and pipelines instead 🤦♂️
#energysky #🔋 #⚡️job
December 7, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Look at this terrifying scene: happy, healthy animals running through co-located wind and solar energy farm cranking out clean energy in a grassy field.
I can see now why people would rather have a field of oil pumps and pipelines instead 🤦♂️
#energysky #🔋 #⚡️job
I can see now why people would rather have a field of oil pumps and pipelines instead 🤦♂️
#energysky #🔋 #⚡️job
Publisher dominance enables restrictive licensing terms that can override fair use for entire institutions, with all researchers, faculty, and students covered under the agreement. Libraries face limited negotiating power, forced to choose between access and rights. #ScholarlyPublishing #FairUse
"We currently face a situation in which publishers are attempting to dictate how and when researchers can do that work, even when authors’ fair use rights to derive new understandings from scholarship clearly allow for such uses." www.authorsalliance.org/2024/12/06/r... @authorsalliance.bsky.social
Restricting Innovation: How Publisher Contracts Undermine Scholarly AI Research
Photo by Josh Appel on Unsplash This post is by Rachael Samberg, Director, Scholarly Communication & Information Policy, UC Berkeley Library and Dave Hansen, Executive Director, Authors Allianc…
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December 7, 2024 at 3:17 PM
Publisher dominance enables restrictive licensing terms that can override fair use for entire institutions, with all researchers, faculty, and students covered under the agreement. Libraries face limited negotiating power, forced to choose between access and rights. #ScholarlyPublishing #FairUse
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“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University
Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...
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December 6, 2024 at 9:17 PM
“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
AI bias in systems for HR create legal risks and reputational damage to companies using these systems. However, companies that address AI bias proactively could gain a competitive advantage in attracting talent, partners, or funding.
"You Gotta be a Doctor, Lin": An Investigation of Name-Based Bias of LLMs in Employment Recommendations
Chatbots routinely prefer candidates with White, female-sounding names over others, even when candidates have identical qualifications.
by Huy Nghiem et al EMNLP’24
hal3.name/docs/daume24...
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Chatbots routinely prefer candidates with White, female-sounding names over others, even when candidates have identical qualifications.
by Huy Nghiem et al EMNLP’24
hal3.name/docs/daume24...
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December 5, 2024 at 3:14 PM
AI bias in systems for HR create legal risks and reputational damage to companies using these systems. However, companies that address AI bias proactively could gain a competitive advantage in attracting talent, partners, or funding.
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I am recruiting a post-doc to work with me at UVA on a project about youth (18-25) financial cultures, literacies, and well-being in the digital environment.
Please share widely!
Deadline is rolling.
virginia.phenompro.com/us/en/job/R0...
Please share widely!
Deadline is rolling.
virginia.phenompro.com/us/en/job/R0...
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE), University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America | Research at University of Virginia
Apply for Postdoctoral Research Associate, Thriving Youth in a Digital Environment (TYDE), University of Virginia job with University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America...
virginia.phenompro.com
November 21, 2024 at 8:50 PM
I am recruiting a post-doc to work with me at UVA on a project about youth (18-25) financial cultures, literacies, and well-being in the digital environment.
Please share widely!
Deadline is rolling.
virginia.phenompro.com/us/en/job/R0...
Please share widely!
Deadline is rolling.
virginia.phenompro.com/us/en/job/R0...
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Interesting Lib Congress experiments > Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci | The Signal
Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci | The Signal
Catalog records are key to storing and finding digital library materials. As the volume of digital materials continues to grow rapidly, the Library of Congress is exploring whether AI can help…
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November 20, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Interesting Lib Congress experiments > Could Artificial Intelligence Help Catalog Thousands of Digital Library Books? An Interview with Abigail Potter and Caroline Saccucci | The Signal
I’ll be presenting our recent IMLS grant (imls.gov/grants/award...) to the ASERL Fall 2024 Membership Meeting tomorrow
LG-256638-OLS-24
Virginia Tech’s University Libraries and Department of Computer Science will harness the power of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), integrated with large language models (LLMs), to improve d...
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November 19, 2024 at 2:26 AM
I’ll be presenting our recent IMLS grant (imls.gov/grants/award...) to the ASERL Fall 2024 Membership Meeting tomorrow