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Spring 2026 One class that I have been enjoying a lot this semester is the Information Science seminar series . The format is simple: each week, a researcher from a completely different field comes in and talks about how they think about technology, data, and AI. Something that makes this class interesting is how different the perspectives are. Some speakers approach technology through law. Some through religion. Some through political science or environmental justice. AI is everywhere. It's embedded in institutions, cultures, and social structures. Here are a few talks that stood out in February: On Judgment - A Critical Grammar for Computing and Law One idea from this talk that really stayed with me was the idea of tractability . In computing, we often assume problems are well-defined and solvable if we just design the right algorithm. But  Gerardo Con Diaz pointed out that tractability is actually something we create by deciding what counts as measurable, what ambiguity we i...