Maneesh Agrawala

Nice Commentary on HCI Education in the Jan issue of Interactions Magazine that mentions our Gulf of Envisoning Work with Maneesh @magrawala.bsky.social Chris
Pondoc, Roy Pea, and Colleen Seifert: interactions.acm.org/archive/view...

👍Yes. Would love to discuss.

I see the relationship to Annihilation, but I could never really connect with that one for some reason.

YouTube video by Sarah E. Chasins and the PLAIT Programming Lab Cartokit: A Geo Tool That Writes Code

New demo! youtu.be/rCPLSr79aGg Use Cartokit to map your data using familiar GUI-style interactions—and let Cartokit write the equivalent code for you. Try it out at alpha.cartokit.dev.

Blindsight (Watts novel) - Wikipedia

Didn't expect to run into Chernoff faces in a scifi book about the nature of consciousness and a world where transhumans live alongside vampires.

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YouTube video by Cuco A Love Letter to LA | Behind The Scenes

that is also why i asked about comfyui,regional prompting and controlnet becuse in relation to 1 those and things like img2img do allow for more expression and control then there are project like that by chicano artist coco which are more in depth www.youtube.com/watch?v=envM...

EECS Colloquium | Making is Decision Making Dedicated to hosting presentations at the intersection of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, the EECS Colloquium offers a mix of short ta...

Excited to get back to UC Berkeley this Wed Nov 19.

I'll be speaking in the EECS colloquium 4-5pm Soda Hall with a talk entitled: Making is Decision Making

Abstract and directions are at this link:
events.berkeley.edu/eecs/event/3...

Never for 106X. I was a student until 2002 and a prof at Stanford starting in 2015.

MoVer is a Motion Verification DSL that can check if an LLM-generated motion graphics animation match your text prompts!
@jiajuma.bsky.social presented this work at SIGGRAPH 2025 making it easier for designers to specify and verify complex animations.

Paper, code and dataset: mover-dsl.github.io

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Oof -- still learning to post proper links on Bluesky.

Teaser for Generating Past and Futures of Digital Painting Processes Paper.

Artists often explore designs, undoing and redoing parts of a sketch to try different ideas. Lvmin Zhang's PaintsAlter (presented at SIGGRAPH 2025) is a tool designed to facilitate such exploration

Updated link: lllyasviel.github.io/paints_alter...

w/ Chuan Yan, Yuwei Guo and Jinbo Xing

Generating alternative futures and pasts for digital drawing processes.

Artists often explore possible designs, undoing and redoing parts of a sketch to try different ideas. Lvmin Zhang's PaintsAlter (presented at SIGGRAPH 2025) is a tool designed to facilitate such exploration

Paper and code: lllyasviel.github.io/paints_alter...

w/ Chuan Yan, Yuwei Geo and Jinbo Xing

If you need to segment sketches into objects, Mia Tang has the tool for you. Enables re-composing the sketch after drawing. She presented her work on InkLayer at SIGGRAPH 2025.

Code, data and paper are here: inklayer.github.io

w/ @yaelvinker.bsky.social Chuan Yan, Lvmin Zhang

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Oddly Influenced Technology Podcast · A podcast about how people have applied ideas from outside software to software.

Was recently introduced to Brian Marick's Oddly Influenced podcast. It's an amazing mix of ideas connecting software engineering, cognitive psychology and history of science.

Highly recommended! Has significantly extended my to-read list.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Looking forward to this workshop!

This is a good article and I completely agree with its argument for comprehensible research.

DeepMind has predicted the shape of every protein known to science. How excited should we be? The AI-based breakthrough, like the sequencing of the human genome, may not turbocharge the development of new drugs as some hope. But as a resource f...

For context, AlphaFold is great, but is not a magic wand for making new drugs. (But Hassabis's latest claims go far beyond the hype that accompanied AlphaFold at the time.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

The AI for Content Creation workshop is kicking off today at #CVPR2025 - Grand Ballroom A1 - @magrawala.bsky.social Kai Zhang (Adobe), Charles Herrmann (Google), Mark Boss (Stability AI), Yutong Bai (UC Berkeley), Cherry Zhao (Adobe), Ishan Misra (Meta) and @jonbarron.bsky.social ! See you soon!

AI for Content Creation Workshop

At CVPR in Nashville for the Workshop on AI for Content Creation. I'll be speaking at 9am tomorrow 6/12.

ai4cc.net

There’s still time! If you are in Toronto I’d love to see you

Join DSI and @uoftmscac.bsky.social for an upcoming #DataSciencesSpeakerSeries talk: "Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces" w/ Prof. @magrawala.bsky.social from @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
🗓️Friday, April 14

🔗Info & reg: datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m...

What will be the linchpin for AI dominance?

Read our NSF/OSTP recommendations written with Goodfire's Tom McGrath tommcgrath.github.io, Transluce's Sarah Schwettmann cogconfluence.com, MIT's Dylan Hadfield-Menell @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social

TLDR; Dominance comes from **interpretability** 🧵 ↘️

iccvm.org The 13th international conference on Computational Visual Media (CVM 2025) will be held on April 19-21, 2025 at Hong Kong SAR, China.

Apr 19: I'll present Beyond Unpredictable Black Boxes: Designing Generative AI For Iterative Refinement for the Computational Visual Media Conference 2025 and the AMC AI Film Festival 2025 in Hong Kong.

iccvm.org/2025/index.htm
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Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces - Prof. Maneesh Agrawala - DSI Join us for the Inequity Speaker Series with Associate Professor Dustin Duncan, from the Department of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit, Columbia University.

Looking forward to giving a connected pair of upcoming talks!

Apr 14: I'll present Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces for the Data Science Institute in Toronto

datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m...

Remembering LineDrive Once upon a time, there was a website called MapBlast. This was during the wild frontier days of online road maps about ten years ago, when MapQuest was king and Google Maps was but a gleam in the …

Also mentions Daniel Huffman's blog post on Remembering LineDrive.

Navigating Nostalgia: Technology, Intention, and the Road Ahead | IX Magazine Issue XXXII.2 March - April 2025 I recently took a road trip from Tucson, Arizona, to Portland, Oregon, to spend time with family and to spare our spoiled dog the indignity of flying in the cargo hold. I ended up...

Ran into this great article on Navigating Nostalgia from Jonathan Bean. It's about nostalgia for older techniology and interfaces, and it make a lovely reference to LineDrive maps.

If you look closely you can see Venus.

McGill runs Bellairs and their faculty run workshops here. I'm jealous of the McGill faculty.