Fireside Chat with Sam Madden

Join MIT’s Sam Madden for a fireside chat with Mike Swift, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in UW–Madison’s College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence, on how AI is reshaping computer science research and education. Drawing on his experience in data systems research and his leadership of MIT’s report on AI in education, Madden will discuss what students should learn as AI’s capabilities grow, which research opportunities lie ahead, and how universities can prepare the next generation of computer scientists.

Sam is the College of Computing Distinguished Professor of Computing at MIT. His research interests include databases, distributed computing, and AI systems. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley. He was named one of Technology Review's Top 35 Under 35 in 2005 and an ACM Fellow in 2020, and is the recipient of several awards including the SIGMOD Edgar F. Codd Innovations Award and "test of time" awards from VLDB, SIGMOD, SIGMOBILE, and SenSys. He is the co-founder and Chief Scientist at Cambridge Mobile Telematics.