Events
Past Event
Segal Seminar Series: Kurt Luther, Virginia Tech
Segal Design Institute
4:00 PM
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Ford Design Studio 1.230, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center
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Kurt Luther, Professor of Computer Science and History is visiting Segal to meet students and discuss his work with expert led crowdsourcing.
Solving Photo Mysteries with Expert-Led Crowdsourcing
How can expert-led crowdsourcing, an approach combining the strengths of individual experts and crowds of novices, be used to solve photo mysteries? We conducted a qualitative study with expert investigators in journalism, national security, and human rights organizations to understand how they perform image geolocation. This process of hunting down the precise location on Earth where a photo or video was created is complex, yet crucial for verifying or debunking claims about visual evidence. Informed by this study, we built GroundTruth, a system where experts collaborate with crowds to geolocate unknown images. Our experiments found that by adapting an expert diagramming technique, crowds can narrow down a search area by half, with near-perfect accuracy, in 10 minutes.
Background
Kurt Luther is an assistant professor of computer science and, by courtesy, history at Virginia Tech. He directs the Crowd Intelligence Lab an interdisciplinary research group exploring how crowdsourcing systems can support creativity and discovery. His research is supported by the NSF (including a CAREER Award), the NIH, the NEH, the National Archives, and Google.
Time
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Ford Design Studio 1.230, Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center Map
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Segal Design Institute
Annual Segal Iron Pour
Segal Design Institute
7:30 PM
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Evanston Township High School
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The Segal Iron Pour is an annual event that introduces students to a centuries-old manufacturing process. During the Iron Pour, students pour molten iron from a 2,700-degree furnace into 3D-printed and sand-casted molds.
The event is held as a culmination of DSGN 395-64: Leonardo, Geometry, and the Art of Manufacturing, a course taught by Segal faculty members Matthew Cummins and David Gatchell.
Join us for the 6th annual Segal Iron Pour, a one-of-a-kind experience that aims to stimulate curiosity in sand casting, forging, and other types of manufacturing. The Iron Pour features Segal students, faculty, and staff who will demonstrate the forging process by pouring hundreds of pounds of molten iron into creatively designed molds. The Segal Iron Pour is open to the McCormick community, including students, faculty, and staff.
Time
Saturday, May 4, 2024 at 7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Location
Evanston Township High School
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Segal Design Institute
Extending Care: A Conversation about Conservation and Futurity
Block Museum of Art
6:00 PM
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Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh
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The Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts is a collaboration between the Art Institute of Chicago and materials science-related departments at Northwestern University to pursue objects-based and objects-inspired scientific research. Materials research benefits ongoing work in conservation, archaeology, art history, and curatorial scholarship.
Learn how the Center uses materials research to care for art objects in sustainable, innovative ways with Maria Kokkori, Northwestern Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Senior Scientist in the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts. She will be in conversation with Corey Byrnes, Northwestern Associate Professor of Chinese Culture and co-founder/co-director of the Environmental Humanities Workshop in Kaplan Humanities Center.
This event is presented by the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science in conjunction with exhibition Actions for the Earth: Art, Care & Ecology.
Time
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Block Museum of Art, Mary and Leigh Map
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Block Museum of Art
Northwestern Engineering PhD Hooding and Master's Degree Recognition Ceremony
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
9:00 AM
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Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony
Time
Monday, June 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Location
Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
Northwestern Engineering Undergraduate Convocation
McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
2:00 PM
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Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering Undergraduate Convocation
Time
Monday, June 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location
Welsh-Ryan Arena
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McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science