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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 1d

yeah okay

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 1d

some beautiful fall weather for pittsburgh, which is showing off into the second week of october --

temperatures for the next five days range from 42 low to 67 high, sunny every day!

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Picard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 5d

Picard devops tip: No, you are not allowed to connect your brain to the computer. Learn to type like everyone else.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 5d

i think maybe, MAYBE, pittsburgh could show leadership in defining what moral engagement could look like. i don't actually think it's good when government agencies won't work with each other, but what parameters should cities have about it? i don't know, maybe pittsburgh could lead the way!

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 5d

top issues in city council in Pittsburgh -- personally, i think pittsburgh has been doing great at threading the needle in not contributing to cruelty toward immigrants while also not grandstanding with the sanctuary city label, but it's a topic of conversation!

InformUp: PGH @informuppgh.bsky.social · 5d

This week in City Council
• Petition calls for Pittsburgh to declare itself a sanctuary city and prohibit cooperation w/ federal immigration enforcement
• $100k more for Bus stop and Curb repair

Tell Council what you think
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#PGH #Pittsburgh

Petition Calls for Pittsburgh to declare itself a Sanctuary City

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CMU Human-Computer Interaction Institute @hcii.cmu.edu · 6d

In case you missed this work at #UIST2025 this week, you can learn more about these personalized finger braces below.
youtu.be/2-JZrDFOS8s

#InteractiveStructures #PhysicalInterfaces #Healthcare #Fabrication

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 6d

on the one hand the debt limit is stupid, congress should have to fund whatever they decide to spend.

on the other, president trump isn’t following congressional spending orders anyway.

so, let the trumpdown continue until republicans stop breaking every rule to get whatever they want.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 7d

Amazing

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 8d

i think the democrats should only have one demand -- the president spends what congress directs him to spend. it doesn't solve every problem, but it does solve some. and, it's explainable -- why pass more spending if the president isn't going to spend according to the rules?

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 8d

i know it's easy not to care any more, but google giving $22 million because they took his account off after he encouraged the january 6th riot is gross.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 8d

A great paper by @mlam.bsky.social -- Policy Map helps folks working with LLMs to deal with the huge space of decisions about how these systems should behave!

Michelle Lam @mlam.bsky.social · 9d

A huge thank you to co-authors @fredhohman.bsky.social, @domoritz.de, @jeffreybigham.com, @kenholstein.bsky.social, and Mary Beth Kery! This work was done during my summer internship w/ Apple AIML, and I’m thankful to work with this wonderful team :)

arxiv.org/abs/2409.18203
#UIST25 talk: Wed 11am!

Policy Maps: Tools for Guiding the Unbounded Space of LLM Behaviors

AI policy sets boundaries on acceptable behavior for AI models, but this is challenging in the context of large language models (LLMs): how do you ensure coverage over a vast behavior space? We introd...

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 9d

#3 paper at #uist2025, by @mlam.bsky.social from her Apple internship, on Policy Maps, which is a visualization tool to help map out the unbounded space of LLM behaviors

Wednesday, 11:24am in Miami

www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pub...

Policy maps chart LLM policy coverage over an unbounded space of model behaviors. Here, an AI practitioner is
designing a policy for how an LLM should summarize violent text. Policy map abstractions (right) allow the policy designer to
interactively author and test policies that govern a model’s behavior using if-then rules over concepts. The designer can create
any desired concept by providing a simple text definition to capture cases of model behavior. Our Policy Projector tool (center)
renders cases, concepts, and policies as visual map layers to aid iterative policy design.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 9d

#2 paper, paper by my student @yihaopeng.bsky.social, on Morae which is a web agent that is accessible to screen reader users, and also pauses when there are choices to be made

see a demo tonight/Monday, and the talk Wed 2:42pm, Sydney

www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pub...

Morae is an accessible user interface agent that proactively pauses automation at key decision points for blind and
low-vision users to make choices. For example, when asked to “buy the cheapest sweetened sparkling water”, existing agents
would automatically choose a product even if multiple items have identical prices. Instead, Morae pauses automation and
presents relevant product differences (e.g., flavors, ratings) and allows users to choose based on their preferences. By proactively
detecting and pausing when user input is necessary, Morae allow users to actively express preferences during UI automation.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 9d

I have three papers at #uist2025 --
#1. StepWrite, how can we compose long-form text with speech -- works better than chatGPT and dictation

Tuesday, 2:54pm, Capri room

www.cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pub...

example of hands busy scenario, writing an email, by answering targeted questions generated by the LLM-powered system

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 9d

i'm at #uist2025 this week in beautiful Busan, Korea -- yesterday, i got to serve on the Doctoral Consortium panel, amazing to see the great work of 10 rising star students in technical HCI … and look at this amazing lunch! :)

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CMU School of Computer Science @scsatcmu.bsky.social · 10d

Support from Amazon Web Services will cover the cost of continuing to store and host CMU CS Academy's entire program in its cloud.

Amazon To Support CMU CS Academy

Support from Amazon Web Services will cover the cost of continuing to store and host CMU CS Academy's entire program in its cloud.

www.cs.cmu.edu

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InformUp: PGH @informuppgh.bsky.social · 12d

This week in City Council

Council may add protections against housing discrimination based on present or past homelessness

311 could expand to monitor residents' social media complaints

Tell Council what you think: informup.org/council-cons...

#PGH #Pittsburgh

Council Considers Homeless Protections From Housing Discrimination and May Monitor Social Media

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 12d

gonna need some bigger venues

an aerial view of a football stadium lit up with red lights .

ALT: an aerial view of a football stadium lit up with red lights .

media.tenor.com

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 12d

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SIGACCESS @sigaccess.bsky.social · 12d

We’re overwhelmed by the response to ASSETS 2025; this will be the largest ASSETS yet! We must limit new in-person registrations. Please sign up on our waitlist in case spots open up forms.gle/a9H5WpzVqn2h.... Virtual reg is still available. More details: assets-conference.github.io/assets2025/u....

ASSETS 2025 In-Person Registration Waitlist

Individuals on the waitlist will be contacted with further instructions as slots become available.

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 15d

masculine energy crowd really doubling down on cancelling the man show host haha

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 17d

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

Katie Fallow @katiefallow.bsky.social · 17d

It says something about Trump’s all-out war on free speech that the New York Times couldn’t find a more credible person than “presidential historian” Craig Shirley to defend it. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

Craig Shirley, a presidential historian and biographer of President Ronald Reagan, said Mr. Trump's experience was so searing that he did not believe the president would improperly restrain others' free speech, whatever his public exhortations.
"We all especially know Biden used government to censor Trump, kicking him off many media platforms, a clear violation of the law," Mr. Shirley said. "As his own First Amendment rights were abridged, my guess is he's especially sensitive to anyone else seeing their First Amendment rights taken away."

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 18d

oh, and i guess to say the obvious -- annoying they haven't even tried to pre-vet them to see if they will hold up to legal challenges

Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 18d

i guess the chaos is the point, but it's still disgusting how these executive orders come on a friday afternoon, go into effect in 24 hours, and are so poorly worded that nobody really understands what they mean precisely

www.cmu.edu/oie/news-and...

Executive Order Related to H-1B Nonimmigrants Issued - Office of International Education - Division of Enrollment Management - Carnegie Mellon University

Executive Order Related to H-1B Nonimmigrants Issued

www.cmu.edu

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 18d

the stories are all "maybe the right is woke now", but it seems a lot worse than that --i don't recall liberal leaders bringing government power to bear against random critics. what was the closest to the head of the FCC putting pressure on ABC to fire kimmel?

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Jeffrey P. Bigham @jeffreybigham.com · 18d

I get that I’m supposed to buy him trophies and stay at his hotel and buy his crypto, but where do I send the receipts so he knows I did these things so I get the favorable treatment??

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