Dr. David A. Shamma
@ayman
scientist: @ToyotaResearch past: FXPAL @cwi_dis @flickr @yahoo. Occasional media artist. Instructions: place in direct sunlight, water daily.
ACM MobileHCI 2025 in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt: Industry Perspectives Track Submission Deadline Extended 2 Weeks! Submit your awesome work for the September Conference! Submissions need one author with an industry affiliation (or co-affiliation). mobilehci.acm.org/2025/callforin…
Did I just upload a fresh batch of photos to @Flickr at flickr.com/photos/ayman/? Yes. Yes I did.
Years ago I made prettyJSON formatter for Safari on MacOS! Just updated to 2.0! Now supports dark mode and more JSON MIME types. It's #158 in developer tools...help me get into top 100! Download and rate it ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐! apple.co/4hit5S8 #mac #safari #json
“The world will always try to tear us down. And when they do, we smile. Because we know who we are.” Thanks @realmoamer for the amazing #worththewait season two! mashable.com/article/mo-sea…
The @TheOfficialACM @acm_chi 2026 Barcelona Open Call for Volunteers is up ! Please sign up to join the team! First time ever in the Iberian peninsula! Details in the submission form. surveymonkey.com/r/GGPYYPD
Would you like to join forces with us and volunteer in the organization of #CHI2026? It will be for the first time on the Iberian Peninsula in beautiful #Barcelona. Please, fill out this form if you would like to volunteer: surveymonkey.com/r/GGPYYPD @TheOfficialACM #CHI @ayman
AfriCHI 2025 is in Cairo Egypt! Calls for papers and participation are open! africhi2025.org
We're excited to bring the 4th Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK 2025) to Amsterdam! 🌷🚲 🔗 chiwork.org 📆 June 23-25, 2025 📍 @CWInl, Amsterdam Papers d/l: January 31, 2025 (AoE) cc @ShadanSB @Carilall @erinsolovey @philwintersberg @chinl
New eco-friendly trains! @Caltrain you should update the app to match. 😊
It's impossible to include all the unforgettable moments from our 2023 ACM Awards Banquet, so why not take a peek at our Flickr album? bit.ly/4eZGZZc #ACM #computing #innovation #visionaries
How is your summer or winter? Are you having hot research results or cool interactive system? The CFPs for CHI 2025 are up now, and we are so proud that we have 14 different technical tracks. Good time to consider what would fit best to you. #CHI2025 buff.ly/466DlsA
We have two open positions on Tableau Research! If you or anyone you know is interested in researching the visual analytics space with an AI perspective, please consider applying. salesforce.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/Tableau/job/Wa… #Tableau #tableauresearch #ai #visualanalytics
Scott’s new paper shows that the promise of synthetic training data still has not been realized for computer vision, despite all the hype. Existing works do not report an important baseline: using the generators’ original real data. This baseline outperforms models trained with…
Will training on AI-generated synthetic data lead to the next frontier of vision models?🤔 Our new paper suggests NO—for now. Synthetic data doesn't magically enable generalization beyond the generator's original training set. 📜: arxiv.org/abs/2406.05184 Details below🧵(1/n)
Impact and Ethics of AI: Insights from #CHI2024, Questions Multiply medium.com/@danielequerci… 1. AI Harms 2. Perceptions of AI 3. AI as Personal Assist. from papers by @lgw_ @mmadaio @Jay4w @niteshg @ChrisYueFu @jlwaycott @damienhci @oshaer @andrewkun @dertao @empiricallykev
Version 1.0 of Adobe Acrobat, the first software program capable of reading PDFs, launched on this day in 1993. PDF, or Portable Document Format allows the user to view a file precisely — down to the pixel, essentially, of what the author had intended. #OTD #ComputingHistory
I’ve voted! You should too if you are a @sigchi member, you got the email a while ago. Do it.
📢#SIGCHI elections are undergoing! Have you already voted? If not, you can still do so until 16:00 UTC, June 10, 2024. Go to acm.org/elections/sigs…, click “Ready to Vote” and vote for your favourite candidate. 🧵1/4
My deepest honor to run for VP Finance in this SIGCHI election. Check the candidates and their statements (including mine): acm.org/elections/sigs… If elected, I'll continue best financial practices, and strengthen our capacity in early-stage planning for community's success.
Thank you all for the memories❣️ As of this afternoon… 🌇All Mozilla-run Hubs servers have been sunset 🗂️Hubs’ social channels have been frozen 🦆The Community Discord Server and Hubs Github Repos have been transferred to The Hubs Foundation
Exciting news, a new role for me: mbzuai.ac.ae/news/13048/