Roderick Murray-Smith

Active Inference and Human–Computer Interaction | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Active Inference is a closed-loop computational theoretical basis for understanding behaviour, based on agents with internal probabilistic generative models that encode their beliefs about how hidden ...

Our paper "Active Inference and Human–Computer Interaction" has been accepted in @acmtochi.bsky.social
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
@jhnhw.bsky.social
@ssteinresearch.bsky.social
@rodmurraysmith.bsky.social y.social

A great chance to work with myself, @jhnhw.bsky.social and @ssteinresearch.bsky.social

Research Associate / Fellow at University of Glasgow Discover Research Associate / Fellow jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.

2 year postdoc position on the DIFAI Project. difai-project.org Deadline 17th Sept. The ideal candidate will be someone with a strong background in HCI theory, strong development skills, able to prototype new interactive systems with ML & sensors. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOF599/r...

Apply for a fully-funded PhD developing “mediating mechanisms” as a way to link machine learning to human-computer interaction in tightly-coupled control loops. All nationalities can apply. Supervised by
@jhnhw.bsky.social in the DIFAI Project. Deadline 31st August. t.co/7Ckua9dCyO

A great chance to come and join us in Glasgow for 3 months

@ercdifai.bsky.social
Ph.D. studentship available
@GlasgowCS
with Aegean Airlines. Model-based shared autonomy via active inference, Supervised by
@ssteinresearch.bsky.social
@rodmurraysmith.bsky.social
Deadline, 30 June 2025. Fully funded PhD (fees + stipend). difai-project.org/aegeanphd.html

Ukraine has supplied the U.S. with extensive intelligence and vast amounts of data on Russian technology, captured equipment, battlefield operational guides, weapon performance, and countermeasures against US provided systems. A shame no one seems to remembers or appreciates it

PhD in Computing Science - Optimal mechanism design and active inference for advanced human-computer interfaces to machine learning at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - PhD in Computing Science - Optimal mechanism design and active inference for advanced human-computer interfaces to machine learning at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

Apply for a fully-funded PhD developing “mediating mechanisms” as a way to link machine learning to human-computer interaction in tightly-coupled control loops. All nationalities can apply. Supervised by @jhnhw.bsky.social in @ercdifai.bsky.social ERC project. Deadline 7th April 2025.

Great idea, @rikefranke.bsky.social!

In 🇫🇷:

"Donald Trump and Europeans at the moment of the big break" (Figaro)

"Ukraine and Europe alone vis-à-vis Russia" (Monde)

"A historic clash" (Parisien)

"After the clash between Zelenskyy and Trump, Europe is looking for its place in Ukraine" (Echos)

Schwere Sicherheitspanne: Zwei russische Agenten verschaffen sich Zutritt ins Weiße Haus Washington, D.C. (dpo) - Zu einer schweren Sicherheitspanne kam es beim gestrigen USA-Besuch des ukrainischen Präsidenten Wolodymyr Selenskyj. Demnach

Schwere Sicherheitspanne: Zwei russische Agenten verschaffen sich Zutritt ins Weiße Haus

Ukraine is Europe!
We stand by Ukraine.

We will step up our support to Ukraine so that they can continue to fight back the agressor.

Today, it became clear that the free world needs a new leader. It’s up to us, Europeans, to take this challenge.

The scenes in the Oval Office today will shame the US for decades. They’ll never be forgotten.

A world leader, fighting for his country against the 21st century’s Nazis, came to the US and was attacked & abused by a gangster regime siding with the fascist invaders.

A historic disgrace.

Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.

https://go.nature.com/4kd1vIu

The CVPR program chairs acted on the reviewing crisis in ML/CV conferences. This is a first!

Papers of authors who acted as irresponsable reviewers have been desk rejected. 19 papers are affected in 2025.

This has also been announced for ICCV 2025.

If you are a supporter of Ukraine or Finland.
Then smash that like button and watch this 8-minute speech by Finland's president Alex Stubb. It's world class.

x.com/VilhoRantane...

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

These posts are highly relevant for academics working in Active inference research. @activeinference.bsky.social

These two posts are closing on the 17th February. Good opportunities for people working in Computational Interaction, ML in Physics, Active Inference!

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

harpers.org/archive/1941...

There are two new permanent posts available at @GlasgowCS in AI/ML especially with HCI/ML in Science/Active Inference focus. Deadline 17th Feb
www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/lecturer...

Amen.

Active Inference and Human--Computer Interaction Active Inference is a closed-loop computational theoretical basis for understanding behaviour, based on agents with internal probabilistic generative models that encode their beliefs about how hidden ...

We review Active Inference and how it could be applied to model the human-computer interaction loop.
Active Inference and Human-Computer Interaction arxiv.org/abs/2412.14741 with @jhnhw.bsky.social @ssteinresearch.bsky.social in the @ercdifai.bsky.social ERC project.

A bit crap, this cartoon.

No

A small book shaped like a romantic heart, with handwritten poems inside.

The “Heart Book” from c.1550 is a collection of 83 Danish love ballads collected at the court of King Christian III. It is the oldest known Danish manuscript of its kind, and an early example of the heart being used to signify romantic love. #skystorians

Please consider applying to join us!

The work was jointly funded by QuantIC (EPSRC funded) and dotPhoton

Marco presenting the poster at the NeurIps conference

Marco Aversa presented 'Is One GPU Enough? Pushing Image Generation at Higher-Resolutions with Foundation Models' at
@neuripsconf.bsky.social, jointly led with Athanasios Tragakis, with Chaitanya Kaul, @dfaccio.bsky.social & myself. Demos, paper and code:
thanos-db.github.io/Pixelsmith/
QuantIC

PhD in Computing Science - Optimal mechanism design and active inference for advanced human-computer interfaces to machine learning at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - PhD in Computing Science - Optimal mechanism design and active inference for advanced human-computer interfaces to machine learning at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

A Ph.D. studentship with @jhnhw.bsky.social & myself at @uofglasgow.bsky.social in our ERC DIFAI project will look at developing “mediating mechanisms” as a way to link machine learning to HCI in tightly-coupled control loops. Deadline 14th Jan. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...