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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · 23d

Never for 106X. I was a student until 2002 and a prof at Stanford starting in 2015.

Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Aug 27

MoVer is a Motion Verification DSL that can check if an LLM-generated motion graphics animation match your text prompts!
@jiajuma.bsky.social presented this work at SIGGRAPH 2025 making it easier for designers to specify and verify complex animations.

Paper, code and dataset: mover-dsl.github.io

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Aug 26

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Aug 26

Oof -- still learning to post proper links on Bluesky.

Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Aug 26

Artists often explore designs, undoing and redoing parts of a sketch to try different ideas. Lvmin Zhang's PaintsAlter (presented at SIGGRAPH 2025) is a tool designed to facilitate such exploration

Updated link: lllyasviel.github.io/paints_alter...

w/ Chuan Yan, Yuwei Guo and Jinbo Xing

Teaser for Generating Past and Futures of Digital Painting Processes Paper.

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Aug 26

Artists often explore designs, undoing and redoing parts of a sketch to try different ideas. Lvmin Zhang's PaintsAlter (presented at SIGGRAPH 2025) is a tool designed to facilitate such exploration

Updated link: lllyasviel.github.io/paints_alter...

w/ Chuan Yan, Yuwei Guo and Jinbo Xing

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Aug 26

Artists often explore possible designs, undoing and redoing parts of a sketch to try different ideas. Lvmin Zhang's PaintsAlter (presented at SIGGRAPH 2025) is a tool designed to facilitate such exploration

Paper and code: lllyasviel.github.io/paints_alter...

w/ Chuan Yan, Yuwei Geo and Jinbo Xing

Generating alternative futures and pasts for digital drawing processes.

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Aug 25

If you need to segment sketches into objects, Mia Tang has the tool for you. Enables re-composing the sketch after drawing. She presented her work on InkLayer at SIGGRAPH 2025.

Code, data and paper are here: inklayer.github.io

w/ @yaelvinker.bsky.social Chuan Yan, Lvmin Zhang

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Dan Jurafsky @jurafsky.bsky.social · Aug 24

Now that school is starting for lots of folks, it's time for a new release of Speech and Language Processing! Jim and I added all sorts of material for the August 2025 release! With slides to match! Check it out here: web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/sl...

Speech and Language Processing

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Aug 20

Was recently introduced to Brian Marick's Oddly Influenced podcast. It's an amazing mix of ideas connecting software engineering, cognitive psychology and history of science.

Highly recommended! Has significantly extended my to-read list.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

Oddly Influenced

Technology Podcast · A podcast about how people have applied ideas from outside software to software.

podcasts.apple.com

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Jul 24

Looking forward to this workshop!

yaelvinker.bsky.social @yaelvinker.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm very excited to announce our #SIGGRAPH2025 workshop:
Drawing & Sketching: Art, Psychology, and Computer Graphics 🎨🧠🫖

🔗 lines-and-minds.github.io
📅 Sunday, August 10th

Join us to explore how people draw, how machines draw, and how the two might draw together! 🤖✍️

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Lior Pachter @lpachter.bsky.social · Jul 21

This is a good article and I completely agree with its argument for comprehensible research.

Richard McElreath 🐈‍⬛ @rmcelreath.bsky.social · Jul 9

How can we reform science? I have some ideas. But I am not sure you’ll like them, because they don’t promise much. elevanth.org/blog/2025/07...

Which Kind of Science Reform

What hope is there for science reform, if we can't agree on what to reform? Right now, principles are more important than practices.

elevanth.org

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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · Jul 5

For context, AlphaFold is great, but is not a magic wand for making new drugs. (But Hassabis's latest claims go far beyond the hype that accompanied AlphaFold at the time.)
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

DeepMind has predicted the shape of every protein known to science. How excited should we be?

The AI-based breakthrough, like the sequencing of the human genome, may not turbocharge the development of new drugs as some hope. But as a resource f...

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk

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James Tompkin @jamestompkin.bsky.social · Jun 12

The AI for Content Creation workshop is kicking off today at #CVPR2025 - Grand Ballroom A1 - @magrawala.bsky.social Kai Zhang (Adobe), Charles Herrmann (Google), Mark Boss (Stability AI), Yutong Bai (UC Berkeley), Cherry Zhao (Adobe), Ishan Misra (Meta) and @jonbarron.bsky.social ! See you soon!

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Jun 11

At CVPR in Nashville for the Workshop on AI for Content Creation. I'll be speaking at 9am tomorrow 6/12.

ai4cc.net

AI for Content Creation Workshop

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Apr 13

There’s still time! If you are in Toronto I’d love to see you

uoftdsi.bsky.social @uoftdsi.bsky.social · Apr 7

Get your tickets and join us + @uoftmscac.bsky.social for an upcoming #DataSciencesSpeakerSeries talk: "Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces" w/ Prof. @magrawala.bsky.social from @stanforduniversity.bsky.social

🗓️April 14
📷Info & reg: datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m...

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uoftdsi.bsky.social @uoftdsi.bsky.social · Mar 26

Join DSI and @uoftmscac.bsky.social for an upcoming #DataSciencesSpeakerSeries talk: "Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces" w/ Prof. @magrawala.bsky.social from @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
🗓️Friday, April 14

🔗Info & reg: datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m...

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David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social · Mar 16

What will be the linchpin for AI dominance?

Read our NSF/OSTP recommendations written with Goodfire's Tom McGrath tommcgrath.github.io, Transluce's Sarah Schwettmann cogconfluence.com, MIT's Dylan Hadfield-Menell @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social

TLDR; Dominance comes from **interpretability** 🧵 ↘️

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Mar 21

Apr 19: I'll present Beyond Unpredictable Black Boxes: Designing Generative AI For Iterative Refinement for the Computational Visual Media Conference 2025 and the AMC AI Film Festival 2025 in Hong Kong.

iccvm.org/2025/index.htm
cveu.github.io/event/amcfil...

iccvm.org

The 13th international conference on Computational Visual Media (CVM 2025) will be held on April 19-21, 2025 at Hong Kong SAR, China.

iccvm.org

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Mar 21

Looking forward to giving a connected pair of upcoming talks!

Apr 14: I'll present Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces for the Data Science Institute in Toronto

datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m...

Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces - Prof. Maneesh Agrawala - DSI

Join us for the Inequity Speaker Series with Associate Professor Dustin Duncan, from the Department of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Social and Spatial Epidemiology Unit, Columbia University.

datasciences.utoronto.ca

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Mar 20

Also mentions Daniel Huffman's blog post on Remembering LineDrive.

Remembering LineDrive

Once upon a time, there was a website called MapBlast. This was during the wild frontier days of online road maps about ten years ago, when MapQuest was king and Google Maps was but a gleam in the …

somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Mar 20

Ran into this great article on Navigating Nostalgia from Jonathan Bean. It's about nostalgia for older techniology and interfaces, and it make a lovely reference to LineDrive maps.

Navigating Nostalgia: Technology, Intention, and the Road Ahead | IX Magazine Issue XXXII.2 March - April 2025

I recently took a road trip from Tucson, Arizona, to Portland, Oregon, to spend time with family and to spare our spoiled dog the indignity of flying in the cargo hold. I ended up...

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Feb 26

If you look closely you can see Venus.

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Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Feb 22

McGill runs Bellairs and their faculty run workshops here. I'm jealous of the McGill faculty.

Maneesh Agrawala @magrawala.bsky.social · Feb 22

In Barbados for the Bellairs workshop on computer animation!

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International Conference on 3D Vision @3dvconf.bsky.social · Nov 26

Hello Bluesky! 🔵 We start our account by having our third guess for Ask Me Anything session #3DV2025AMA!

Noah Snavely @snavely.bsky.social from Cornell & Google DeepMind! 🌟

🕒 You have now 24 HOURS to ask him anything — drop your questions in the comments below!

Keep it engaging but respectful!

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