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News, articles, and posts from the JOPRO community.
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May 17, 2026 · via OREL Medium
Cybernetics and World Modeling
A new paper from OREL's Cybernetics Interest Group situates the Every Good Regulator Theorem alongside modern AI world models, appearing in the Royal Society A special issue on 'World models in natural and artificial intelligence.'
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Aug 16, 2025
JOPRO to Exhibit at MIT Media Lab for the Human Augmentation Summit
JOPRO has been accepted as an exhibitor at the Human Augmentation Summit at the MIT Media Lab — featuring Data x Direction and its Summer Cohort, plus a soft launch for forthcoming programming.
in Society Ethics Technology (SET) · Data x Direction
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Jul 31, 2025
Data x Direction's Makati Attends ACM FAccT 2025
Tlamelo Makati reports from ACM FAccT 2025 in Athens, exploring ethical design, participatory research, and what it means to shape AI with care.
in Society Ethics Technology (SET) · Data x Direction
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May 21, 2025 · via OREL Medium
Welcome to our Google Summer of Code scholars for 2025! (OREL)
OREL welcomes three GSoC 2025 scholars: Lalith Baru and Jayadratha Gayen to the DevoWorm group, and Vidhi Rohira to the Open-source Sustainability project.
in Google Summer of Code + Open Source Cohort
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May 20, 2025
JOPRO at the UC San Diego Education Innovation Expo
Jesse Parent presents 'JOPRO & the New Learning Ecosystem' at the 2025 UC San Diego Education Innovation Expo — featuring FrontierMap and case studies of alternative learning approaches.
in Society Ethics Technology (SET)
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Mar 26, 2025
JOPRO to Host Innovation Panel at ACM's NYCWiC 2025
Jesse Parent will moderate 'Navigating Innovation Spaces' at ACM's NYCWiC 2025 — a panel of early-career researchers and professionals across industry, academia, and startups.
in Society Ethics Technology (SET)
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Feb 10, 2025
SET at WeRobot 2025
Jesse Parent, Jennifer Jiang, and Bradly Alicea accepted to WeRobot 2025 at Windsor Law with 'Navigating Present Shock: Reclaiming Agency Through AI-Enhanced Narrativity.'
in Society Ethics Technology (SET)
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Dec 2, 2024
JOPRO a Winner in Fandom Forward's Civic Imagination Challenge
JOPRO's 'Future-Makers Guild' pitch was named a winner of the 2024 Civic Imagination Challenge, part of Fandom Forward's Save Our Progress campaign.
in Society Ethics Technology (SET)
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Nov 21, 2024
OREL at the Active Inference Institute's 4th Applied ActInf Symposium
OREL participated in the 4th Applied Active Inference Symposium with talks on nonstandard cybernetics, open-source and open science, and management & leadership for research and innovation.
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Aug 24, 2024 · via OREL Medium
LLAMOSC: GSoC '24 OREL INCF Project Report
On the design and implementation of LLAMOSC, a framework that pairs LLM-driven agents with agent-based modeling to simulate open-source community sustainability.
in Google Summer of Code + Open Source Cohort
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Aug 14, 2024
Schnake publishes thesis on Artificial Intelligence and Liability
Valeria Schnake publishes her thesis on AI and tort liability at the University of Chile School of Law, completing a journey from SET founding member to distinguished law student.
in Society Ethics Technology (SET)
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Apr 23, 2024
Plot Twisters to Present at Oxford Internet Institute's Inclusive Gaming Conference
Plot Twisters will present 'Twisterland: Interactive online game world for fostering diverse personal narrative building' at the Oxford Internet Institute's Inclusive Gaming Conference.
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Apr 14, 2024 · via OREL Medium
Embodied Intelligence 2024
OREL participated in Embodied Intelligence 2024 (March 20–22) with a presentation on Developmental Neurosimulation and proposed talks on mind/brain analogies and spatial cognition in VR.
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Sep 14, 2023 · jesse-parent
Naturalization of Phenomenology, Phenomenalization of Nature — Part 1: The Difficulty
Reflections from the Cognition Futures Reading Group on Depraz and Desmidt's 'Cardiophenomenology' and the methodological challenges of relating first-personal and third-personal data.
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Jul 25, 2023
FrontierMap at Hyperdigital Designs Workshop at Cambridge Digital Humanities
Jesse Parent presented FrontierMap at the Hyperdigital Designs Workshop, hosted by Cambridge Digital Humanities and co-sponsored by the William Temple Foundation.
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Jun 26, 2023 · Jesse Parent
Reflections and Directions: WeRobot 2022 Retrospective
A retrospective on WeRobot 2022 at UW School of Law — community, constructive critique, and the changing landscapes of tech policy and cognitive science.
in Society Ethics Technology (SET)
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Apr 21, 2023 · via OREL Medium
New York Celebration of Women in Computing (NYCWiC) 2023
OREL was well-represented at NYCWiC 2023 with a five-talk Society, Ethics, and Technology session organized and emceed by lab manager Jesse Parent.
in Society Ethics Technology (SET)
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Mar 26, 2023 · via OREL Medium
International Conference on Embodied Intelligence 2023
OREL participated in the Embodied Intelligence Workshop 2023 with three breakout presentations from Jesse Parent, Amanda Nelson, and Bradly Alicea on survey methods, embodied neurophenomenology, and critical periods.
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Dec 9, 2021 · via OREL Medium
Saturday Morning NeuroSim: Recent Conversations, Mentorship
An update on selected conversations from Saturday Morning NeuroSim — category theory, deep fakes, data trusts, VR history, meta-brain models, and a series of career-development talks for emerging scholars.