Episode Four: Understandings of New Technology - Artificial Intelligence
Episode Four
Title: Understandings of New Technology: Artificial Intelligence
Student Producer: Karina Berceanu (member of the class of 2028)
Episode Description:
This episode introduces listeners to Champaign-Urbana residents’ experiences with the emerging field of artificial intelligence. Included in the episode are the perspectives of two University of Illinois School of Information Science professors whose research focuses on the ever evolving field of human-computer interactions.
Featuring:
Yun Huang, an associate professor in the department of Information and Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. She conducts research on Human-AI interaction through UIUC’s Social Computing Systems Lab.
Yang Wang, a professor in the department of Information and Computer Science at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. His research focuses on responsible AI and privacy and security.
Dennis Wenger, a local, central Illinois farmer who lives and farms in Fairbury.
Keith Kelley, a Professor Emeritus of Immunophysiology at the University of Illinois.
Colleen Bushell, an original designer of MOSAIC, the first popular web browser to display images with text. She currently serves as Director of Health Care Innovation at National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA).
Paula Kaufman, now retired, moved to Champaign-Urbana in 1999 to become the first Dean of Libraries and University Librarian at the University of Illinois. She also was the first recipient of the Juanita J. and Robert E. Simpson University Library Deanship.
Ann Reisner grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. She received her Ph.D. at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in Mass Communications and now serves as Associate Professor Emerita in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies at the University of Illinois.
Margaret Lovell, a retired science writer who has lived all over the United States, settling in Urbana, Illinois in 2022.
