Work in The Age Of AI, Robots, and Algorithms

Submitted by crowston on Sat, 2018-08-25 15:37
Type: Syllabus
Author: Diane Bailey
Year of Publishing: 2018
Keywords: doctoral seminar, syllabus
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In the past five years or so, the popular media and, more recently, academic discourse, have been brimming with accounts of how new technological advances in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI), robots, and algorithms will transform the landscape of work, with ramifications for occupations and employment on a potentially grand scale. In this doctoral seminar, we will examine the claims, the current reality, and likely futures of work in the age of these new technologies.

Comm493: Analytics and Artificial Intelligence for Business

Submitted by crowston on Sat, 2018-08-18 12:20
Type: Syllabus
Author: Tracy Jenkin
Year of Publishing: 2018
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This course will introduce students to the development of software applications drawing on artificial intelligence techniques such as deep learning and machine learning.

Changing Nature of Work (CNoW): Bridging the Workplace of People, Data and Things

There will be a pre-ICIS workshop on the Changing Nature of Work (CNoW): Bridging the Workplace of People, Data and Things in San Francisco, CA, USA on Thursday, December 13, 2018, from 9:00-16:00.

Extended abstracts are due 24 Sept 2018.

For more information and for instructions to submit, see

New Data & Society report on tech and the future of labor

Submitted by ierick on Wed, 2018-07-04 09:38

Beyond Disruption: How Tech Shapes Labor Across Domestic Work & Ridehailing uses the experiences of U.S. ridehail, care, and cleaning platform workers to show how technology is reshaping the future of labor.

Call for Papers—Special Issue of Information Systems Research—Humans, Algorithms, and Augmented Intelligence: The Future of Work, Organizations, and Society

Submitted by crowston on Tue, 2018-07-03 15:50

Call for Papers—Special Issue of Information Systems Research—Humans, Algorithms, and Augmented Intelligence: The Future of Work, Organizations, and Society

Papers are due 1 Dec 2018.

NSF Workshop on Effect of Autonomous Truck on the U.S. Economy


Arlington, VA, June 28 & June 29, 2018

HCOMP Workshop

This all-day workshop (on 5 July 2018 in conjunction with the HCOMP conference in Zürich Switzerland) has the aim of promoting research convergence among participants on topics related to future forms of work (i.e., humans doing their jobs) with intelligent machines. We define intelligent machines as computing technologies characterized by autonomy, the ability to learn, and the ability to interact with other systems and with humans: robots and algorithms interacting with people.

Round table on The Future of Work: Intelligent Machines, Automation, and Societal Impacts

Submitted by crowston on Mon, 2018-03-19 16:33

There was a webcast round table on The Future of Work: Intelligent Machines, Automation, and Societal Impacts. A video of the webcast can be found .

Registration is now open for the Convergence Conference

Submitted by crowston on Tue, 2018-03-13 15:45

Registration is now open for the , to be held 18-19 May 2018 in East Lansing, MI. You can register . It is still possible to submit posters and to request student travel funding; details are on the registration page.

Work in the Age of Intelligent Machines: Towards Disciplinary Convergence, Academy of Management PDW

This professional development workshop (PDW) at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting aims to promote disciplinary convergence among its participants in relation to work in the age of intelligent machines.

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