Charles Isbell has begun his new role as the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s provost, serving as the chief academic officer and the second-ranking leader after Chancellor Jennifer L. Mnookin. Isbell officially began his role on Aug. 1, taking over for Eric Wilcots, who served as interim provost after the recent departure of Karl Scholz to the University of Oregon. ...
... “I try to build machines and systems that are really smart — and not just smart in a room, but smart in a social context with human beings,” Isbell told UW News. “It’s all about modeling and understanding human behavior and building systems that are part of a person or a group of people, as opposed to something that is just faster or smarter at whatever little thing it does.” ...
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