May 28, 2026
Ghada Gherwash
Director of the Farnham Writers’ Center and Assistant Professor of Writing, Colby College
Past Events
May 13, 2026
Vijayanta Jain
Postdoctoral Fellow, Colby College
May 13, 2026
Annie Tang
Assistant Professor of Statistics, Colby College
May 13, 2026
Justin Brown
Laboratory Research Manager VEMI Lab, University of Maine
May 13, 2026
Nick Record
Senior Research Scientist and the Tandy Center for Ocean Forecasting Director of Ecosystem Modeling, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
May 13, 2026
David Danks
William L. Polk Jr. and Carolyn K. Polk Jefferson Scholars Foundation Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Science, University of Virginia
May 13, 2026
Melanie Moses
Professor of Computer Science and Associate Professor of Biology, University of New Mexico
May 13, 2026
Bertram F. Malle
Professor of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences, Brown University
May 13, 2026
Ben Baker
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Colby College
May 13, 2026
Candice Byers
Research Scientist, The Roux Institute
May 13, 2026
Mike McQuillan
Founder, BEcamp
May 13, 2026
Jonathan Godbout
Director of the Halloran Lab for Entrepreneurship, Colby College
May 13, 2026
Isaac Lage
Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Colby College
May 13, 2026
Veronica Romero
Assistant Professor of Psychology, Colby College
May 13, 2026
Stacy Doore
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Colby College
May 13, 2026
Oliver Layton
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Computer Science, Colby College
May 13, 2026
Ellie Pavlick
Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Linguistics, Brown University
May 13, 2026
Divya Pathak
Senior Vice President and Chief AI Officer, Regeneron
May 13, 2026
Kathryn Guarini
Former CIO and COO and IBM
Apr 16, 2026
AI, Ethics, and Imagination
Distinguished AI Speaker Series
Apr 02, 2026
The Dawn of Quantum Advantage
Distinguished AI Speaker Series
Mar 05, 2026
Narrated Reality
Distinguished AI Speaker Series
Feb 26, 2026
Innovation or Safety?
Distinguished AI Speaker Series
Nov 13, 2025
Techno-Cultural Futures
Distinguished AI Speaker Series
Sep 25, 2025
Responsible Innovation in the Age of AI
Distinguished AI Speaker Series
Mar 04, 2024
Misinformation and Artificial Intelligence in the 2024 Election Cycle
Panel Discussion
Oct 17, 2023
Human Computation, Games, and AI
Talk
Sep 19, 2023
Playful Social Robots in Early Motor Interventions and Beyond
Talk
Apr 13, 2023
Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights
Talk
Apr 10, 2023
Art & AI
Panel Discussion
Mar 28, 2023
Creating New Sounds
Workshop
Mar 09, 2023
Viral Justice: Pandemics, Police Violence & Public Bioethics
Talk
Nov 10, 2022
Miles and Katharine Culbertson Prentice Distinguished Lecture
Lecture
Oct 18, 2022
AI Research for Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
Lecture
May 06, 2022
Cracking Historical Ciphers in Medieval Texts with AI in the Loop
Lecture
Apr 07, 2022
Working in an Age of Automation
Fireside Chat
Feb 24, 2022
Teaching Computing Ethics Through Storytelling
Panel Discussion
Art & AI: Panel Discussion
April 10, 2023
6:00 p.m., Greene Block + Studios, Downtown Waterville, Colby College
Oscar Santillán
A panel discussion between Oscar, Amanda Stent, Erica Wall, and Lisa LaFleur. Santillán will discuss and present his work with Colby undergraduate research assistants, that will bring his project to fruition. Free and open to ALL!
Felipe Tovar-Henao, Visiting Artist/Composer
March 28-30, 2023
4 p.m. & 6:00 pm, Bixler Building, Colby College
Felipe Tovar-Henao is a Colombian composer and software developer who specializes in computer-assisted creativity, procedural art, and music information retrieval. Working with Colby students, Tovar-Henao and Assistant Professor José Martínez helped them create new sounds and compositions that were brought together in a stunning and fun concert and installation with audience participation.
Viral Justice: Pandamics, Police Violence & Public Bioethics
March 9, 2023
6:00 pm, Ostrove Auditorium – Diamond Building, Colby College
Ruha Benjamin
Ruha Benjamin is a professor of African-American Studies at Princeton University, the founding director of the Ida B. Wells JustDataLab, and author of the award-winning book Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code, among many other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power.
Hosted by the Public Humanistic Inquiry Lab with co-sponsorship from African-American Studies, American Studies, Anthropology, the Center for the Arts and Humanities, Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs, Science, Technology, and Society, and Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies.
Oscar Santillán
November 10, 2022
5:00 pm, Ostrove Auditorium – Diamond Building, Colby College
Oscar Santillán will speak about his practice and introduce the research and work that he will be doing during the 2022-2023 academic year as a Lunder Senior Fellow at the Museum of Art here at Colby.
This talk will also be available to watch and participate in the Q&A via Zoom. Use link below.
The talk and Q&A will be followed by a reception in Ostrove.
AI Research for Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability
October 18, 2022
7:00 pm, Ostrove Auditorium – Diamond Building, Colby College
Claire Monteleoni
Despite the scientific consensus on climate change, drastic uncertainties remain. Crucial questions about regional climate trends, changes in extreme events, such as heat waves and mega-storms, and understanding how climate varied in the distant past, must be answered in order to improve predictions, assess impacts and vulnerability, and inform mitigation and sustainable adaptation strategies. Machine learning can help answer such questions and shed light on climate change. An overview of our climate informatics research, focusing on challenges in learning from spatiotemporal data, along with semi- and unsupervised deep learning approaches to studying rare and extreme events, and precipitation and temperature downscaling.
Cracking Historical Ciphers in Medieval Texts with AI in the Loop
May 6, 2022
7:00 pm, Ostrove Auditorium – Diamond Building, Colby College
Beáta Megyesi
Professor of Computational Linguistics – Uppsala University, Sweden
She is specialized in digital philology and natural language processing. Her research interests include the automatic analysis of non-standard language data from historical texts and ciphers to student writings to allow large-scale empirical studies for the humanities and social sciences. She is the former president of the Northern European Association for Language Technology, former head of department of Linguistics and Philology and campus director of the English Park Campus at Uppsala University. She serves as the PI of the DECODE and DECRYPT projects, aiming at the development of infrastructural resources and tools for historical cryptology.
Working in an Age of Automation
April 7, 2022
7:00 pm, Ostrove Auditorium – Diamond Building, Colby College
Roy Bahat
Bloomberg
Join us for a fireside chat discussing the use of AI for optimizing and automating work.
Computing Ethics Narratives – Teaching Computing Ethics Through Storytelling
February 24, 2022
7:00 pm, Ostrove Auditorium – Diamond Building, Colby College
Stacy Doore (Colby College), Allison Cooper (Bowdoin College) and Fernando Nascimento (Bowdoin College)
Join the Computing Ethics Narratives team on Thursday, February 24th at 4:00 pm for a conversation about what its members learned over the course of their research and to celebrate the launch of the project’s website, computingnarratives.com.