DLI | Seminar Series

Digital Life Seminar

Date: 2026 Fall Semester

When: Thursdays, 1.25 - 2.40pm. Due to limited space, all guests outside of Cornell Tech are asked to please RSVP beforehand.

Where: Cornell Tech Campus

Convenors: Nava Haghighi, Michael Byrne, James Grimmelmann, and Angelina Wang

Queries: Michael Byrne (mjb556@cornell.edu)

About: The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies.

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DLI Seminars | Fall 2026

Thursday, October 8, 2026 at 1:25:00 PM EDT

Catherine Griffiths

Columbia University

Toward a Counter-Algorithmic Design Practice

This talk presents a practice at the intersection of Critical AI Studies and Computational Design, one that treats software development, interface design, and algorithmic visualization as media for socio-technical investigation. Drawing on critical code studies and tactics such as slow computation, which brings hyper-fast, opaque processes back to a human scale, the work makes machine learning decision-making legible to non-technical audiences. The talk follows three projects that examine human motion modeling across three kinds of space.

Thursday, October 15, 2026 at 1:25:00 PM EDT

Brian A. Smith

Columbia University

Digital Life Seminar

Brian A. Smith is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University and the director of the Computer-Enabled Abilities Laboratory (CEAL). He is a member of the Data Science Institute and Center for Smart Streetscapes.

Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 1:25:00 PM EDT

Jose Sanchez

Cornell Tech

Digital Life Seminar

The Digital Life Seminar series offers students and guests an opportunity to engage actively with leading scholars and practitioners researching and responding to the development and application of digital technologies. Stay tuned for more information soon!