Wed 11.16.22
12:00P EDT/9:00A PDT | 1 Hour 30 Minute Event
Wed 11.16.22
12:00P EDT/9:00A PDT
1 Hour 30 Minute Event
Wed 11.16.22
12:00P EDT/9:00A PDT | 1 Hour 30 Minute Event
Wed 11.16.22
12:00P EDT/9:00A PDT
1 Hour 30 Minute Event
Date: 11/16/22
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
Location: Raytheon Amphitheater
ABSTRACT
The surge of interest in bias and fairness continues a traditional commitment in computer science to ethical research and practice. With fairness as a case in point, the talk exposes interlacing connections between technical interpretations of ethical concepts, on the one hand, and ethical interpretations of technical concepts, on the other. These interlacing connections serve as a bridge. The talk argues that maintaining its robustness is important for technical research and for society, at large. Disciplinary bridge building is not easy work, either conceptually or institutionally, but it serves against wandering too far into under-motivated technical formalisms and untethered ethical and political theory.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Helen Nissenbaum is a professor of Information Science and founding director of the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, New York City. Her work focuses on ethical, and political implications of digital technologies on issues such as privacy, bias in digital systems, trust online, ethics in design, and accountability in computational and algorithmic systems. Prof. Nissenbaum’s publications, which include the books, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, with Finn Brunton (MIT Press, 2015), Values at Play in Digital Games, with Mary Flanagan (MIT Press, 2014), and Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford, 2010), have been translated into seven languages, including Polish, Chinese, and Portuguese. Recipient of the 2014 Barwise Prize of the American Philosophical Association and the IACAP Covey Award for computing, ethics, and philosophy, Prof. Nissenbaum has contributed to privacy-enhancing free software, TrackMeNot (protecting against profiling based on Web search) and AdNauseam (protecting against profiling based on ad clicks). She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy and Mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Date: 11/16/22
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
Location: Raytheon Amphitheater
ABSTRACT
The surge of interest in bias and fairness continues a traditional commitment in computer science to ethical research and practice. With fairness as a case in point, the talk exposes interlacing connections between technical interpretations of ethical concepts, on the one hand, and ethical interpretations of technical concepts, on the other. These interlacing connections serve as a bridge. The talk argues that maintaining its robustness is important for technical research and for society, at large. Disciplinary bridge building is not easy work, either conceptually or institutionally, but it serves against wandering too far into under-motivated technical formalisms and untethered ethical and political theory.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Helen Nissenbaum is a professor of Information Science and founding director of the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, New York City. Her work focuses on ethical, and political implications of digital technologies on issues such as privacy, bias in digital systems, trust online, ethics in design, and accountability in computational and algorithmic systems. Prof. Nissenbaum’s publications, which include the books, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, with Finn Brunton (MIT Press, 2015), Values at Play in Digital Games, with Mary Flanagan (MIT Press, 2014), and Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford, 2010), have been translated into seven languages, including Polish, Chinese, and Portuguese. Recipient of the 2014 Barwise Prize of the American Philosophical Association and the IACAP Covey Award for computing, ethics, and philosophy, Prof. Nissenbaum has contributed to privacy-enhancing free software, TrackMeNot (protecting against profiling based on Web search) and AdNauseam (protecting against profiling based on ad clicks). She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy and Mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Date: 11/16/22
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
Location: Raytheon Amphitheater
ABSTRACT
The surge of interest in bias and fairness continues a traditional commitment in computer science to ethical research and practice. With fairness as a case in point, the talk exposes interlacing connections between technical interpretations of ethical concepts, on the one hand, and ethical interpretations of technical concepts, on the other. These interlacing connections serve as a bridge. The talk argues that maintaining its robustness is important for technical research and for society, at large. Disciplinary bridge building is not easy work, either conceptually or institutionally, but it serves against wandering too far into under-motivated technical formalisms and untethered ethical and political theory.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Helen Nissenbaum is a professor of Information Science and founding director of the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, New York City. Her work focuses on ethical, and political implications of digital technologies on issues such as privacy, bias in digital systems, trust online, ethics in design, and accountability in computational and algorithmic systems. Prof. Nissenbaum’s publications, which include the books, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, with Finn Brunton (MIT Press, 2015), Values at Play in Digital Games, with Mary Flanagan (MIT Press, 2014), and Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford, 2010), have been translated into seven languages, including Polish, Chinese, and Portuguese. Recipient of the 2014 Barwise Prize of the American Philosophical Association and the IACAP Covey Award for computing, ethics, and philosophy, Prof. Nissenbaum has contributed to privacy-enhancing free software, TrackMeNot (protecting against profiling based on Web search) and AdNauseam (protecting against profiling based on ad clicks). She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy and Mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
Date: 11/16/22
Time: 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
Location: Raytheon Amphitheater
ABSTRACT
The surge of interest in bias and fairness continues a traditional commitment in computer science to ethical research and practice. With fairness as a case in point, the talk exposes interlacing connections between technical interpretations of ethical concepts, on the one hand, and ethical interpretations of technical concepts, on the other. These interlacing connections serve as a bridge. The talk argues that maintaining its robustness is important for technical research and for society, at large. Disciplinary bridge building is not easy work, either conceptually or institutionally, but it serves against wandering too far into under-motivated technical formalisms and untethered ethical and political theory.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Helen Nissenbaum is a professor of Information Science and founding director of the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, New York City. Her work focuses on ethical, and political implications of digital technologies on issues such as privacy, bias in digital systems, trust online, ethics in design, and accountability in computational and algorithmic systems. Prof. Nissenbaum’s publications, which include the books, Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, with Finn Brunton (MIT Press, 2015), Values at Play in Digital Games, with Mary Flanagan (MIT Press, 2014), and Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford, 2010), have been translated into seven languages, including Polish, Chinese, and Portuguese. Recipient of the 2014 Barwise Prize of the American Philosophical Association and the IACAP Covey Award for computing, ethics, and philosophy, Prof. Nissenbaum has contributed to privacy-enhancing free software, TrackMeNot (protecting against profiling based on Web search) and AdNauseam (protecting against profiling based on ad clicks). She holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) in Philosophy and Mathematics from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.
