McGill Desautels Faculty of Management - Emmanuelle Vaast's Recent Media Coverage

AI can create ‘ghostbots’ that mimic lost loved ones—but should it?

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 15:27:21 +0000

Artificial intelligence (AI) can be used to create chatbots that mimic a specific human being – even if that human being is no longer with us. An AI companion that mimics lost loved ones could help people process grief and ease the loneliness that comes with the loss, says Emmanuelle Vaast, Professor of Information Systems and Associate Dean of Research at McGill Desautels. But these ‘ghostbots’ should be approached with caution.

McGill Desautels professors and lecturers recognized at Faculty Awards

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 24 May 2024 16:33:56 +0000

Across programs and subject areas, the McGill Desautels Faculty of Management recognizes the vital role that research, teaching, service and media engagement play in enriching the student experience and inspiring the next generation of leaders through the annual Faculty Awards. This year we recognize the following outstanding members of our faculty:

Research

McGill Desautels BCom Wins McCAIS Undergraduate Research Award 2024

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:51:24 +0000

Bachelor of Commerce student Nikki Tye is the recipient of the McGill Collaborative for AI & Society (McCAIS)’s Undergraduate Research Award (McURA) for Summer 2024. The $8,700 award, aimed at promoting interdisciplinary AI research in society, recognizes Nikki's project on "Protecting the Amazon Forest from Illegal Activity through Image Recognition and Operations Research: A Partnership with JungleKeepers and Peruvian Indigenous Communities."

McGill Desautels faculty members and researchers celebrated at Bravo Gala

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:55:09 +0000

�㽶��Ƶ hosted its annual Bravo Gala on Thursday, March 21, which honours its faculty members and researchers who have won special awards, memberships and prizes over the past year. McGill Desautels is proud to announce 14 of its faculty amongst the distinguished honourees this year. Congratulations to our deserving laureates! Full list below.
#Bravo2024

· Geneviève Bassellier, Best AMCIS Emergent Research Forum Paper, Americas Conference on Information Systems

Delve: Are Digital Tech Workers Coding Themselves Out of Existence? with Emmanuelle Vaast and Alain Pinsonneault

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:28:02 +0000

What if just doing your job causes you to lose your job? New technologies have constantly replaced old technologies for hundreds of years, but new digital technologies, namely artificial intelligence and other data-driven technologies, are doing more than replacing old tech—they’re replacing the people who create those technologies in the first place.

Delve: Occupational Evolution or Extinction?

�㽶��Ƶ — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 19:24:01 +0000

Despite being essential in organizations across sectors, data scientists wrestle with the implications of writing the code that will replace their own jobs. New research by Desautels Professors Emmanuelle Vaast & Alain Pinsonneault analyzes six years of what data scientists have been saying about their occupational identity and its interlinked evolution to new digital technologies.

Delve: Searching for the Pandemic’s Silver Lining? Look Online.

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 26 May 2020 02:00:08 +0000

The COVID-19 pandemic and the requirements of physical distancing have created a sense of crisis that transcends most boundaries. While the imposed trauma is immense, the sharing of personal pandemic experiences online has been encouraging. As �㽶��Ƶ’s Professor Emmanuelle Vaast explains, people around the world are rediscovering the brighter side of social media, as these technologies take on renewed relevance and importance in times of crisis.

Professor Emmanuelle Vaast named Associate Dean of Research

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 22 May 2020 16:32:25 +0000

As Professor Vihang Errunza steps down from his role as Associate Dean of Research at the Desautels Faculty of Management, Professor Emmanuelle Vaast is gearing up to take the reins.

A newly-launched coalition for responsible AI

�㽶��Ƶ — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 15:34:04 +0000

Professor Emmanuelle Vaast is one among ten McGill members who comprise the new International Observatory on the Social Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies (OIISIAN) - a $7.5 million initiative spearheaded by the government of Quebec to explore interdisciplinary and intersectoral perspectives on the impact of AI and digital technology on individuals, organizations, and communities.

Announcing the Desautels Faculty Scholars

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 20:28:50 +0000

The Faculty Research Workload Committee (RWC) has completed its review of applications submitted by tenured faculty to fill the currently vacant Faculty Scholar Award slots.

The Faculty is pleased to congratulate the following recipients of the Desautels Scholar Awards (effective September 1, 2018 to August 31, 2021):

The influence of social media

�㽶��Ƶ — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 21:00:50 +0000

The Globe and Mail recently featured the research of Desautels Professors Emmanuelle Vaast and Liette Lapointe that explored the power of social media to propel meaningful social movements.

Using the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a case study, they analyzed the surge of Tweets that followed to illustrate how social media can effectively rally individuals around a shared cause.

Twitter use during the Gulf oil spill

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 18:05:39 +0000

Social media has become a part of everyday life. We enjoy the contact Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc., provide with friends and family, and, indeed, the world.

Sometimes we gripe about the downsides of the technology. People say it’s a time suck. There’s fake news. It’s hard to trust what you see.

New Undergraduate Program Wins Award for Sustainability in Business Curricula

�㽶��Ƶ — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 19:07:31 +0000

The Desautels Faculty of Management congratulates the Marcel Desautels Institute for Integrated Management (MDIIM) and Desautels faculty members who were recently named recipients of the 2014 Dr. Alfred N. and Lynn Manos Page Prize for Integration of Sustainability Issues in Business Curricula, for conceiving and implementing the new Managing for Sustainability Major and Concentration (MSUS) programs for Bachelor of Commerce students at �㽶��Ƶ.

Redéfinir son travail dans une entreprise dématérialisée

�㽶��Ƶ — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:12:01 +0000

Flexibilité, autonomie, mais aussi disponibilité et rentabilité sont les maîtres mots du bureau 2.0. Le bureau de la chercheuse Emmanuelle Vaast, au cinquième étage de la faculté de gestion Desautels de l'Université McGill, est... vide. Les étagères sont dégarnies. Pas de photos de ses jumeaux sur les murs; aucune trace non plus de leurs derniers gribouillages. Si vide que ses visiteurs croient généralement qu'elle vient tout juste de débarquer de l'Université de Long Island, où elle a mené son postdoctorat.