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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Looking forward to this workshop!

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

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...

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!

At CVPR in Nashville for the Workshop on AI for Content Creation. I'll be speaking at 9am tomorrow 6/12. ai4cc.net

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

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...

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** 🧵 ↘️

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...

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.

In Barbados for the Bellairs workshop on computer animation!

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!

my take on bringing HCI to PL blog.sigplan.org/2024/11/21/e...

3/ Domain-specific visualizations. A pair of pictures should say it all. What do you think the left picture is about? How about the right one? (Hint: they're the "same picture", yet obviously they're not. A lot more to say here!) ↵

Thinking of adding this paper to my HCI Foundations and Frontiers course: arxiv.org/abs/2402.19194 So many questions though -- what was the IRB process like? how did NSF reimburse for the cannabis? ...

Check out our paper for details on the cognitive gaps, mental models, and human theory of mind of LLMs and recommendations for designers. Thanks to my amazing coauthors - @magrawala.bsky.social, Roy Pea, Chris Pondoc, Colleen Seifert t.co/QmZEKpwyhZ

I'll be speaking at Univ. of Toronto's Data Science Institute next Mon Mar 25. You can still register! datasciences.utoronto.ca/event/prof-m... www.eventbrite.ca/e/unpredicta...

New work from my lab looking at ways to engage with teachers and students early on the machine learning development process to build AI powered education technology. We will present this work at CSCW2024. hai.stanford.edu/news/data-ce...

New on eagereyes: The New York Times now has a web Flash player eagereyes.org/blog/2024/ny...

Motion graphics videos are widely used in online ads, animated logos, film titles ... At #SIGGRAPHAsia2023 , Sharon Zhang will show how to convert them into SVG and then transform the SVG to produce new motion graphics content. sxzhang25.github.io/publications... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uZn...

Motion graphics videos are widely used in online ads, animated logos, film titles ... At #SIGGRAPHAsia2023 , Sharon Zhang will show how to convert them into SVG and then transform the SVG to produce new motion graphics content. sxzhang25.github.io/publications... www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uZn...

There's still time to register for this! Hope to see you tomorrow.

On Dec 5, I'll be giving a virtual ACM TechTalk: Unpredictable Black Boxes are Terrible Interfaces. It expands on my substack post. The inimitable Alyosha Efros will moderate! Register for talk: community.acm.org/demographics... Substack post: magrawala.substack.com/p/unpredicta...

Earlier this year I wrote a substack post explaining why I think Generative AI tools are amazing and also incredibly frustrating to use: magrawala.substack.com/p/unpredicta...