Brent Hecht
@bhecht
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Director of Applied Science @Microsoft. Associate Professor at @NorthwesternU. Responsible AI, spatial computing, human-centered AI. Opinions my own.
Redmond, WA via IL/MN/DE/CA
Joined April 2008
We have a new academic CFP at Microsoft: Help define a "new future of work" for the LLM era! If you want to do research on augmentative applications of LLMs, provenance in LLMs, or any topic re LLMs and information work, you can submit a proposal here:
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RT @MSFTResearch: Ece Kamar and Ashley Llorens discuss techniques to build useful systems around today's large-scale AI models and long-ter…
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RT @erichorvitz: Several fun vignettes on how colleagues are using large language models in their everyday tasks @jteevan @erikbryn @Manlik…
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RT @erichorvitz: At the White House today for discussions with the President on the risks and opportunities of #AI.
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RT @jteevan: Science (@jteevan) + Design (@designjon) + Engineering (@sumit_c) = AI MAGIC! Meet a few of the people behind @Microsoft's #M3…
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RT @CaoHancheng: Finally back to US after nearly two months! While Mexico is a great country to stay, being put under 'administrative proce…
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A quick break from your AI news to bring some news of natural intelligence: Mina Virginia Hecht was born on Monday! She and her mom (and her dad) are doing well, and her older sister is thrilled to have a new bff.
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RT @HSGStGallen: How does a space productively bring together colleagues who are present and those who work remotely? Together with @MSFTRe…
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RT @danish_c: Excited to share the call for participation from the @ResponsibleAIL initiative. There's work to be done towards developing b…
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Two all-stars on a critical topic!
Hi Twitter! This Thursday at 11am ET, I'm hosting @hanlinliii to discuss Data Labor and the Labor Force behind AI as a part of the @CHIWORKsymp weekly conversation series. Please join us!
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RT @fereshte_khani: 🚨 Internship Alert 🚨 There are some interesting internship opportunities on LLMs sponsored by our group, please apply!…
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RT @MiroDudik: Three more days to apply for postdoc positions in ML and RL at Microsoft Research NYC. Deadline: Dec 9.
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A HUGE congrats to Dr.(!) Hanlin Li (@hanlinliii) and Dr.(!) Nick Vincent (@nickmvincent) for their successful thesis defenses last week! Their work on data labor and data leverage truly has tremendous potential to create an AI ecosystem that is more powerful AND more equitable.
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RT @TobyJLi: A highlight of tonight at @nu_hci #futureofHCI: a reunion of (a subset) of @bhecht gang! @hanlinliii @jaketangosierra
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