Join us for the ACM Conference on Collective Intelligence (CI'25) Aug 4-6 in La Jolla CA

[Steven Dow]

Dear HCOMP community,
I wish I had posted here earlier, but I just discovered this list!  

We have an amazing CI'25 event planned for next month in La Jolla, CA. There will be plenty of research talks on human computation and crowdsourcing, and quite an exceptional line-up of plenary talks: 

- Cory Doctorow is a blogger, journalist, and science fiction author who will talk about the enshittification of the internet and what we can do about it. 

- Dr. Michael Levin, Vannevar Bush Distinguished biologist at Tufts, argues that all intelligence is collective intelligence and will discuss how individual parts solve local goals at all levels of our biology. 

- Dr. Adam Kalai, research scientist at OpenAI, will talk about human feedback in reinforcement learning to improve safety and fairness. 

- Dr. Kate Starbird, Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering at UW, will talk about how misinformation and rumors spread and how to frame this as collective sensemaking.

- Dr. Niki Kittur, Professor in the HCI Institute at CMU, will share his recent research on "composite intelligence" and his new initiative on Supercharging Innovation. 

- Dr. Melissa Valentine, Professor in Management Science at Stanford, will share insights on AI in Organizations, and will also announce a new Grand Challenge by Stanford HAI and Google DeepMind.

You can register and see more details on the website:  https://ci.acm.org/2025/

Also, please help us get the word out by forwarding the details below to other people or organizations. 

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Join us for ACM Collective Intelligence 2025 (https://ci.acm.org/2025), the premier international venue for disseminating the latest research that advances the theoretical and empirical understanding of collective behavior and performance in diverse systems, whether biological, technological, or a combination, as well as designing and engineering systems for human, computational, and hybrid intelligence.

See the latest research papers from the community. Sign up for an interactive workshop around AI-driven problem-solving, AI tech policy, prediction markets, and crowd hacking.

Watch talks by our extraordinary lineup of thought leaders spanning diverse perspectives on cognitive science, philosophy, ecology, biology, computer science, anthropology, organizational science, network science, sociology, economics, and more! 

Featured speakers include:

Cory Doctorow – Blogger, journalist, and science fiction author.

Kate Starbird – Professor, Human Centered Design & Engineering, U Washington.

Michael Levin - Professor, Biology, Tufts University.
Adam Kalai – Research Scientist, AI Safety & Ethics, OpenAI.
Federico Rossano – Associate Professor, Cognitive Science, UC San Diego.
Deborah Gordon – Professor, Environmental Biology, Stanford.
Lilly Irani –  Associate Professor, Communication & Science Studies, UC San Diego.
Glen Weyl – Research Lead, Plural Technology Collaboratory, Microsoft.
Niki Kittur – Professor, HCI Institute, Carnegie Mellon University.
Melissa Valentine –  Associate Professor, Management Science & Engineering, Stanford.

REGISTRATION is now open!  Fees include conference events, light breakfast, refreshments, and lunch as well as the conference dinner on Aug 5. Workshops are extra (https://ci.acm.org/2025/attend/).

WHO:  For anyone interested in research on collective problem solving.
WHEN: Aug 4 (workshops day); Aug 5-6 (main conference)
WHERE:  The Great Hall at UC San Diego's main campus, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093