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Connect with investors and mentors that can help launch your startup, and get funding and prizes from a record pool of over $550,000!
Research Park and the Champaign County Economic Development Corporation invite you to join us for AgTech Breakfast from 8:00-9:30 AM on Tuesday, February 4 at the Illinois Conference Center.
Speaker: Mihir Bhaskar, Research Lead at AWS Center for Quantum Networking, Amazon Web Services
Speaker: Anastasiya Osher, Anderson Group
Join us for an informative session on how the Global Relations unit can assist in facilitating your global relations and advancing your international work. Whether you're looking to collaborate with international universities or explore global research opportunities, we’re here to support your efforts.
Speaker: Chloe Kim, Chitambar/Leditzky Group
Although its usefulness as such a metric is debatable, the notion of accuracy itself still organizes much of the thinking about AI. In an analysis of FORDISC, a database of skull measurements used to identify human remains, Iris Clever demonstrates how a focus on accuracy might struggle to account for the entwined relationship between humanity, science, and technology.
Speaker: Will Huie, Covey Group
Dinner Graduate Workshop with Mary Ton, Digital Humanities Librarian, on Planning Humanities Research Projects.
Speaker: William Oliver, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speaker: Lakshmy Ajayakumar, Backlund Group
Based on two years of ethnographic interviews with patients of chronic illness and participant observation with practitioners of complementary medicine in California, this talk examines what “sensitivity” can provide as a source of information about the relationship between the individual and the environment, and how this impacts health.