Reshaping AI-Enabled Discovery and Understanding from the Molecular to the Media
February 17, 2026
More than 415 guests registered to attend the three Distinguished Speaker Series events NNCI hosted this month.
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AI Deepfakes Are Easier to Make, Harder to Spot, and Made to Fool You
February 13, 2026
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CBS News
Professor V.S. Subrahmanian spoke with CBS News to discuss the dangers of deepfakes, AI scams, and other vulnerabilities.
What Chatbots Can Teach Humans About Empathy
February 11, 2026
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Northwestern Now
A Northwestern study found that AI models can judge the nuances of empathy in text-based conversations almost as well as human experts — and much better than their non-expert counterparts.
Distinguished Speaker Series
The Northwestern Network for Collaborative Intelligence Distinguished Speaker Series convenes leading voices in data science and artificial intelligence to illuminate emerging ideas, foster interdisciplinary dialogue, and examine how these fields intersect with diverse domains of study.
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Mar
4
2026
WED@NICO SEMINAR: Ágnes Horvát, Northwestern School of Communication "The Academic Use of Social Media, LLMs and AI-Assisted Decision-Making"
12:00 PMChambers Hall, 600 Foster St
Speaker:
Ágnes Horvát, Associate Professor, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern School of Communication
Ti...
Mar
5
2026
Using AI to Evaluate the Accessibility of Third Party Tools
10:00 AM
According to Northwestern’s Digital Accessibility Policy as well as the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), all softw...
Mar
10
2026
Using AI to Help Write Alt Text for Complex Images
10:00 AM
All alt text for images should be based on the context of the image and what is being portrayed to the user. Writing app...
Mar
10
2026
Prompt Engineering for Northwestern Instructors
1:00 PM
Writing, iterating, and critiquing prompts to generative AI tools are critical skills needed to understand the limitatio...
Mar
11
2026
Wildcats in Water: The Water that Fuels NU Research with Mary Beth Greer
11:30 AMO. T. Hogan Biological Sciences Building, 2205 Tech Drive
We're excited to welcome Mary Beth G., Mechanical Engineer and Project Manager in Facilities Management at Northwestern ...
Mar
11
2026
WED@NICO SEMINAR: Steven Franconeri, Northwestern University "Point Taken: A gamified Intervention that Creates Enlightened Disagreements"
12:00 PMChambers Hall, 600 Foster St
Speaker:
Steven Franconeri, Professor of Psychology, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences; Professor of Management and Or...