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Computational SSH

The Launch of MASSHINE

MASSHINE is Aalborg University's hub for Computational Social Science and Humanities (SSH). We bring together researchers working with computational methods such as machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision across the faculty's six departments. Developments in artificial intelligence and the availability of new types of data create challenges and opportunities for the way we do research in SSH. MASSHINE provides a community of practice for peers to collaborate across disciplines and ensures a good framework for SSH-driven development of computational tools and techniques. 

Utzon Center

Slotspladsen 4
9000 Aalborg

  • 29.08.2023 Kl. 14:00 - 18:00

  • English

  • On location

Registration

Utzon Center

Slotspladsen 4
9000 Aalborg

29.08.2023 Kl. 14:00 - 18:00

English

On location

Registration

Computational SSH

The Launch of MASSHINE

MASSHINE is Aalborg University's hub for Computational Social Science and Humanities (SSH). We bring together researchers working with computational methods such as machine learning, natural language processing and computer vision across the faculty's six departments. Developments in artificial intelligence and the availability of new types of data create challenges and opportunities for the way we do research in SSH. MASSHINE provides a community of practice for peers to collaborate across disciplines and ensures a good framework for SSH-driven development of computational tools and techniques. 

Utzon Center

Slotspladsen 4
9000 Aalborg

  • 29.08.2023 Kl. 14:00 - 18:00

  • English

  • On location

Registration

Utzon Center

Slotspladsen 4
9000 Aalborg

29.08.2023 Kl. 14:00 - 18:00

English

On location

Registration
Who needs computational SSH? And is SSH in need of computation?

We warmly invite you to the Launch Event on the 29th of August 2023 at Utzon Center in Aalborg.

The launch event celebrates the first half year of MASSHINE activities at AAU and offers an occasion to discuss both why SSH needs computational methods and why computational developments in society more broadly require perspective and contributions from SSH research.

We have invited a mix of MASSHINE researchers and acclaimed guest speakers to discuss these questions with us in two panel debates. Follow the program as speakers are announced below!

We round the day off with an opening reception and hope to see many of you there.

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Agenda

14:00-14:05 Welcome  Rasmus Antoft, Dean, Aalborg University.
14:05-14:15 Introduction to MASSHINE  Anders Kristian Munk, Associate Professor, Aalborg University. Scientific Director, MASSHINE.
  Who needs computational SSH? With digitalization and artificial intelligence transforming our worlds in real time, why do we need the social sciences and humanities to develop, teach, and make use of computational methods? Why not keep our critical distance? Why not leave technology to the technicians?  PANEL 1
14:15-14:25 Computational competences and capacity building through SSH education? Michael E. Caspersen, Director, It-vest - Networking Universities. Honorary professor, Aarhus University. This year's winner of the: ”ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educa  tor Award” from Association for Computing Machinery.
14:25-14:35 Critical technical practice? SSH-driven toolmaking from Gephi to the Urban Belonging app Anders Koed Madsen, Associate Professor, Aalborg University. Member of Steering Committee, MASSHINE. Mathieu Jacomy, Assistant Professor, Aalborg University. Member of MASSHINE.
14:35-14:45 Digital democracy in peril? How do we track and check the influence of big tech on our public conversation in an age of algorithms and online platforms? Tobias Bornakke, Partner, Analyse og Tal. Vice-chair, AkademikerPension. Chair, Nordic Think Tank for Tech and Democracy.
14:45 – 14:55 The value of SSH perspectives on AI-powered language technologies Kristine Bundgaard, Associate Professor, Aalborg University. Member of MASSHINE.
14:55-15:25 Panel discussion Moderator: Roman Jurowetzki, Associate Professor, Aalborg University. Member of Steering Committee, MASSHINE.
15:25-15:45 BREAK  
  And is SSH in need of computation? With the advent of new types of big social data, digitized archives, and machine learning techniques for processing, analyzing, modelling, or even generating large volumes of text and image, can disciplinary identities and epistemic traditions in SSH remain unchanged? Are we looking at new methods to solve age-old problems? Have new questions become possible? PANEL 2
15:45-15:55 To Machine Learn or Not to Machine Learn: The New Question for Social Scientists Rolf Lyneborg Lund, Associate Professor, Aalborg University. Scientific Co-Director, MASSHINE.
15:55-16:05 Machine Anthropology after Ethnography Morten Axel Pedersen, Professor and Director of Center for Social Data Science (SODAS), University of Copenhagen.
16:05-16:15 Will we need historians after the (historical) data revolution? The historian toolbox, computational competences and the new frontiers in historical research Barbara Revuelta-Eugercios , Link-Lives. Project senior researcher, Rigsarkivet. Guest Researcher, University of Copenhagen.
16:15-16:25 Easier, better, different? Will language generation change literature? Mads Rosendahl Thomsen, Professor, Aarhus University. Director of Center for Language Generation and AI.
16:25-16:55 Panel discussion Moderator: Johan Heinsen, Associate Professor, Aalborg University. Member of Steering Committee, MASSHINE. 
16:55-17:00 MASSHINE going forward Søren Ginnerup Kristiansen, Vice Dean, Aalborg University. Chair, MASSHINE.
17:00 Reception  
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