LGBTQ+ Celebration
10 March 2020
On Friday 28th February, 鶹ýƵվ’s Centre for Artificial Intelligence celebrated LGBTQ History Month, in association with Queer in AI.
The Centre was delighted to be joined by Dr Shakir Mohamed,senior staff research scientist atDeepMind, who gave a short talk titled“Queer Exceptionalism in Science” – a piece he has written for the Royal Society. The event was chaired by Prof Marc Deisenroth, a Professor of Machine Learning in the AI Centre at 鶹ýƵվ.
Dr Mohamed has also written a blog post of the same title, which can be read here:
The event was open to the public and was attended by a mix of 鶹ýƵվ staff, students and external visitors from industry and other academic institutions, who enjoyed Dr Mohamed's talk, followed by a Fireside chat and networking event.
We would like to thank,鶹ýƵվ's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Networks, including Out@鶹ýƵվfor their support in the event and promotion of equality within AI and our Centre.
The Centre also took the opportunity to participate in 鶹ýƵվ's Powered by Plants initiative