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Through the Window: People, Data, Technology, and National Security

Apr 17, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Dr. Andrew L. Brooks is the Chief Data Scientist at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Harnessing AI for Global Economic Development

Mar 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child

Feb 20, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The One Laptop per Child project failed. So why do the same utopian visions that inspired it still motivate other projects to “disrupt” education and development?

Optimization for Machine Learning

Feb 14, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How good data models facilitate optimization and generalization in machine learning.

Towards an Equitable Data-Driven Urbanism: Transforming Urban Theory and Practice via Data Science

Feb 6, 2019, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Does Email Suppress Turnout on Election Day? Experimental Evidence from the 2016 General Election

Jan 30, 2019, 12:40 pm to 2:00 pm

Massive impersonal unsolicited email campaigns might actually backfire.

Privacy, Disclosure, and Social Exchange Theory

Dec 12, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Jen King explores how people think about information privacy in online settings.

GDPR: Big Data, Big Responsibility

Oct 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes big responsibilities for organizations.

Using Machine Learning to Understand Health Care Systems

Oct 31, 2018, 1:10 pm to 2:30 pm

Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how machine learning can improve our understanding of the health system itself.

Democratizing Data Science

Oct 17, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Making it easy for individuals and teams to manage, analyze, and draw insights from large datasets.

Design for Collective Action

Mar 21, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Niloufar Salehi introduces social computing systems to support collective action.

Capturing Human Behavior and Language for Interactive Systems

Mar 14, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

We imagine a future in which computers understand a broad range of human behaviors, but today’s systems fall short of these visions.

Self-Disclosure and Response Behaviors in Socially Stigmatized Contexts on Social Media

Mar 7, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How can social media platforms better foster well-being when people experience distress and stigma?

Looking Around, Rather Than Ahead: Design at the Periphery of Contemporary High Tech Development

Feb 21, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

How technology design can help us understand different social phenomena.

“Does This Vehicle Belong to You?” Processing the Language of Policing for Improving Police-Community Relations

Jan 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

A linguistic analysis of policy body-camera data from traffic stops reveals race-based differences. How can the findings improve police-community relations?

Embeddings for Everything: Search in the Neural Network Era

Jan 17, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Dan Gillick proposes a new kind of internet search engine based on neural networks.

Persistent Bias Among Local Election Officials

Jan 17, 2018, 12:10 pm to 1:30 pm

An audit study of the 2016 election confirms ethnic bias by local election officials.

Friends Don’t Let Friends Deploy Black-Box Models: The Importance of Intelligibility in Machine Learning for Bias Detection and Prevention

Nov 8, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

Visual Trumpery: Fighting Against Fake Data and Visualizations — From the Left and From the Right

Oct 25, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

With facts and truth increasingly under assault, sifting through the visual information and misinformation is more critical than ever.

Knowing, Judging, Calculating: Consumer Credit Surveillance and the Infrastructure of Prediction

Oct 11, 2017, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm

The untold history of our modern credit scoring system and how it emerged from a 19th-century surveillance infrastructure with huge archives of personal information.

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