Walter J. Scheirer

Walter J. Scheirer is the Dennis O. Doughty Collegiate Professor of Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His primary technical research interest within computer science is artificial intelligence. He is a global AI leader, serving as the Chair of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Community on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence and as a board member of the Computer Vision Foundation. Prof. Scheirer is also a cultural critic and historian, commenting on the social context of emerging technologies from the realistic perspective of a technologist, and promoting technology development informed by Catholic Social Teaching that upholds the common good. He is the author of the book A History of Fake Things on the Internet (Stanford University Press 2023) and co-author of the book Virtue in Virtual Spaces: Catholic Social Teaching and Technology (Liturgical Press 2024).