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I agree! She seems like a great pick. Are we inviting her to give a keynote virtually or in person? Perhaps we can give her both options. Do we fund anything besides the workshop registration fees? 

And let me accept the invitation now (had to collect a bed earlier)...
Ori




On Wed, Aug 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM Tristan Miller <Tristan.Miller@umanitoba.ca> wrote:
Dear all (Ori in CC as he hasn't yet accepted the mailing list invitation),

On 2026-08-26 12:44, Tristan Miller via groups.io wrote:
> Joe suggested Lydia Chilton of
> Columbia, who has published on multimodal AI for creative work and on AI
> humour generation.

I had a look at her web page
<https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/faculty-staff/directory/lydia-chilton>
and Google Scholar profile
<https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=RpxD-7QAAAAJ> and she seems
like a good choice.  I think she's only put out one paper on humour (on
generating captions) but her other work on co-creation with generative
AI seems relevant.  If others agree, who would like to send her an
invitation?

Regards,
Tristan

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