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Count yourself lucky if you’ve never had the awkward experience of trying to mend fences IRL after an argument on social media. What was intended as a way to connect with others at times has an isolating effect, and with the distance afforded by the platforms, we’re often not our best selves online. In a SXSW Online panel titled “Unravelling the Social Dilemma,” Jeremy Hollow of Listen & Learn Research and Jillian Ney, digital behavioral scientist at the Social Intelligence Lab, dove into the complex issues around social media and proposed possible solutions for its problems. The thes...

Connection in Disconnection – 2021 Themes Who would’ve thought that over the course of a year working from home or spending the holidays on a Zoom call was going to become the “new normal”? As social distancing became our best safety measure against COVID-19, we looked to our webcams and social media platforms for solace. With the constant use of these online platforms, the fatigue sets in as we long for days of genuine human connection. Community-sourced Conference sessions span across seven programming themes for the 2021 event. The Connection in Disconnection theme explores how we ...

January 23, 2021 By the time his play “RUR” (which stands for “Rossum’s Universal Robots”) premiered in Prague in 1921, Karel Čapek was a well-known Czech intellectual. Like many of his peers, he was appalled by the carnage wrought by the mechanical and chemical weapons that marked World War I as a departure from previous combat. He was also deeply skeptical of the utopian notions of science and technology. “The product of the human brain has escaped the control of human hands,” Čapek told the London Saturday Review following the play’s premiere. “This is the comedy of sci...

Xue Liu named Distinguished Member of ACM The William Dawson Professor at the School of Computer Science received the recognition from the world's largest and most prestigious society of computing professionals. By François Shalom Prof. Xue (Steve) Liu of McGill’s School of Computer Science has been recognized as a 2020 Distinguished Member of the Association for Computing Machinery, which describes itself as “the world’s largest computing society” with a mandate to “raise awareness of computing’s important technical, educational, and social issues.” The ACM has 100,000 member...

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