Today wraps up the Workshop on the Intersections of Differential Privacy & Sublinear #Algorithms at TTIC! Explore our full 2026 Summer Workshop Program lineup: buff.ly/xycPgxU

TTIC is hosting 19 visiting students and interns this summer! Visiting students work on research projects in collaboration with TTIC faculty in #ML, #algorithms, #computervision, #robotics, #AI, and more. View the full list of interns and learn more: buff.ly/AT9Xuxa

REMINDER: Registration is open and free for the Learning-driven #Algorithms and Machine-aided Proofs (LAMP), part of TTIC's Summer Workshop Program. Learn more: buff.ly/kbe5F4E

We had a great time hosting the University of Chicago's Youth Internship Program students at TTIC yesterday! Ph.D. student Jingtian Ji gave a robotics presentation, & the students got hands-on experience at the robotics lab. Learn more about our community outreach: buff.ly/mLUUFZP

Our mission: international impact through world-class #ComputerScience research & education. TTIC is a philanthropically endowed academic institute dedicated to fundamental computer science & IT. Learn more about us: www.ttic.edu/about/

Introducing FilmGPT 🎬 (#SIGGRAPH2026) Can we learn the grammar of film directly from movies? We train an autoregressive transformer on feature films to edit raw footage into coherent cinematic sequences, without generating new pixels. Project page: mudtriangle.com/filmgpt Demo below👇

Congratulations to Xiaodan Du, Shester Gueuwou, Serpil Karabüklü, Karen Livescu, Greg Shakhnarovich, and David Yunis on their Best Paper awards at #CVPR2026 workshops! buff.ly/eReDsT5

What does it take to advance the frontiers of #ML and #CStheory? Explore our highlights page, where TTIC's students, postdocs, and faculty share firsthand accounts of their experiences and research at TTIC, spanning #algorithms, #AI, #computervision, and beyond. buff.ly/xvFYa58

Thank you to Blackstone Bicycle Works youth camp students for visiting TTIC last week! The students learned about #robotics, #AI, and got hands-on experience at the robotics lab! Learn more about our community outreach: ttic.edu/outreach

Explore research talks on #ML, #robotics, #algorithms, #AI, and #computervision from leading researchers. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for in-depth academic discussions: youtube.com/@TTIC_Connect

Our summer robotics interns had a blast at McDonald's Hamburger University! They got a behind-the-scenes look at how the industry applies #machinelearning and optimization in the real world. Learn more about our internship programs: ttic.edu/visiting-student

TTIC is pleased to announce Gill Pratt and Shai Shalev-Shwartz as new Trustees, and Sandra L. Phillips as the new Advisor to the Board: ttic.edu/news/#0726-1

What if #ML could prove theorems? The LAMP workshop at TTIC explores exactly that, plus learning-augmented algorithms with provable guarantees. Register now: buff.ly/NQ5YcWf #TCS

Tomorrow is Independence Day! Have a safe and happy Fourth of July 🎆

Our ARM summer interns at TTIC got to attend Automate 2026, a national #robotics and automation showcase. It was a great opportunity to see the industry up close! Big thanks to lead mentor Mike Rodgers for making the connection.

Register for the Differential Privacy & Sublinear Algorithms workshop at TTIC, as part of its 2026 Summer Workshop Program. Explore how privacy-preserving techniques are driving innovation across algorithmic disciplines: buff.ly/9UGnJJo

Day 2 of the Tenth International Workshop on Symbolic-Neural Learning (SNL2026) is underway at TTIC. View our full summer workshop program: buff.ly/UKmH4zV

TTIC has kicked off its annual summer ARM (Autonomous Robotics Immersion) internship, welcoming high school students from Chicago Public Schools for a hands-on experience in #robotics research. Learn more about our internship opportunities: buff.ly/V2Qoc24

Celebrating Juneteenth! TTIC administrative offices will be closed today in observance.

A wonderful visit for the high schoolers in the Blackstone Bicycle Works summer program, made possible by Ph.D. student Vincent Tan, the RIPL group at TTIC, and mentors Adam, Felix, Tomas, and Mike. We are grateful for the enthusiasm they brought to this community experience.

Monday, June 22nd at 11:30am: TTIC Colloquium presents Shubham Toshniwal with a talk titled "Training Knowledge Agents for Enterprise Search." Please join us in Room 530, 5th floor.

Thursday, June 18th at 1:00PM: Please join us for Ph.D. candidate Keziah Naggita's thesis defense titled "Shaping Human-AI Interactions to Provide Improvement Pathways and Balance Competing Objectives." Room 529, 5th floor.

The Midwest Robotics Workshop at TTIC drew an outstanding turnout last week — thank you to everyone who participated and presented! Our 2026 Summer Workshop Program continues, and there is much more ahead. View upcoming workshops: buff.ly/WUVkfs1

Robotics research is in full force at TTIC this week. We're deep into Day 2 of the Midwest #Robotics Workshop, part of our 2026 Summer Workshop Program. Explore the full lineup: buff.ly/WUVkfs1

Congratulations to Melissa Dutz, Avrim Blum, Han Shao, and Aloni Cohen, recipients of a Best Paper Award at FORC 2026 for "A Machine Learning Theory Perspective on Strategic Litigation." Read more: buff.ly/iWRaJJw

Congratulations to Tianchong Jiang, Jingtian Ji, Vincent Xiangshan Tan, Jiading Fang, Matthew Walter, Anand Bhattad, and Vitor Guizilini, recipients of the Best Paper Award on Robot Learning at ICRA 2026 for "Do You Know Where Your Camera Is?" Read more: buff.ly/QqTn4gA

The sun is out, and summer is here on the University of Chicago campus, home to TTIC!

This workshop brings together a distinguished group of speakers from across the field, many of whom have connections to TTIC — including current faculty, alumni, generous supporters, and former PhD students of TTIC CAO and Interim President Avrim Blum.

CMU MLD@mldcmu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

At Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing: The Role of TCS in Modern Machine Learning, a workshop on the interplay of theory and AI. Co-organized by MLD professor Nina Balcan and featuring Professor Tom Mitchell among many other field-defining scientists. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/ro...

Stream now on our YouTube channel: "Optimizer Geometry in Modern Deep Learning," a Research at TTIC talk presented by Zhiyuan Li: youtu.be/P-tGMH5Mg_U

Now available to stream on our YouTube channel: "Population & Precision Health: Where AI Meets Modern Medicine," by Derek Reiman, part of the Research at TTIC talk series: youtu.be/fjsOYM73y6Now

"Population & Precision Health: Where AI Meets Modern Medicine" – Derek Reiman, Research at TTIC

“Population & Precision Health: Where Artificial Intelligence Meets Modern Medicine” Derek Reiman, University of Chicago – Institute of Population and Precision Health Originally recorded on April…

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