This is part of a three-day weekend of presentations from Radical Imagination celebrating Juneteenth by exploring the legacy of W.E.B. DuBois. 35 years after slavery, Du Bois set out to provide a definitive image of the Negro condition in the United States. His data efforts not only quantified economic parity or lack thereof, he also […]
The CUNY AI Lab (CAIL) is a faculty- and staff-led initiative based at the Graduate Center that supports experimentation with AI by teachers and researchers across disciplines. Funded by the Office of Academic Affairs and jointly administered by Graduate Center Digital Initiatives, the Teaching and Learning Center, the Mina Rees Library, and the American Social […]
Wikimedia New York City invites you to Wiki-Play Fridays, a pop-up exhibition and laboratory of wiki-based immersive design gaming at the World Trade Center Oculus in Lower Manhattan. These are Friday afternoon events (2-6pm), held once per month. There will be demos and playtesting of wiki-games and novel modes of interaction, both digital and tactile. […]
fomo.nyc is a community-built interactive map of upcoming events in the NYC area. It works by visiting the websites of parks, museums, music venues, etc., identifying any upcoming events, and displaying them on a map. This project is a labor of love and will always be free and open-source. Creator Isha Mani will be present […]
fomo.nyc is a community-built interactive map of upcoming events in the NYC area. It works by visiting the websites of parks, museums, music venues, etc., identifying any upcoming events, and displaying them on a map. This project is a labor of love and will always be free and open-source. Creator Isha Mani will be present […]
Come to meet the team behind www.thecommon.news! This is a project created to make it simple for people to view their local city council meeting minutes, future meeting information, and their officials. The Common News took this another step further, using LLMs with specific context to summarize the meeting minutes to give the users quick […]
Project Watchtower is a publicly accessible web platform that compiles and visualizes data on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity and spending, including arrests, enforcement-related deaths, detention statistics, and federal budget expenditures. Drawing from government datasets and credible reporting, the site translates complex information into interactive charts, maps, and visualizations that make immigration […]
Most people interact with AI every day but have no way to see inside it. Workbench (https://workbench.ndif.us/) is a free tool that changes this. Built by the National Deep Inference Fabric (NDIF), Workbench lets anyone explore how AI models work inside without writing a single line of code. At this crucial moment when AI is […]
Most people interact with AI every day but have no way to see inside it. Workbench (https://workbench.ndif.us/) is a free tool that changes this. Built by the National Deep Inference Fabric (NDIF), Workbench lets anyone explore how AI models work inside without writing a single line of code. At this crucial moment when AI is […]
Beneficial Computing is building digital infrastructure to help people navigate complex government benefits systems starting with federal disability benefits (SSI/SSDI). Our project is an AI-powered eligibility screener that helps individuals and frontline service providers understand whether someone may qualify for disability benefits and what evidence or documentation may be needed. Applying for SSI or SSDI […]
Urban planning researcher Peter Furth developed a framework called Level of Traffic Stress (LTS) to measure how stressful streets are for cyclists. Using street data from OpenStreetMap, Tajairi Brown-Neuson applied this framework to rate every street in NYC on a scale of 1–4, based on characteristics like speed limits, number of lanes, and presence of […]
Beneficial Computing is building digital infrastructure to help people navigate complex government benefits systems starting with federal disability benefits (SSI/SSDI). Our project is an AI-powered eligibility screener that helps individuals and frontline service providers understand whether someone may qualify for disability benefits and what evidence or documentation may be needed. Applying for SSI or SSDI […]