Spring 2020
February 2020
Madeleine Clare Elish, Research Lead and co-founder of the AI on the Ground Initiative at Data & Society
Monday February 24th, 2019
4:10-5:30pm
210 South Hall
March 2020
CANCELLED: Digital Design Strategies to Support Underrepresented Job Seekers and Entrepreneurs
Tawanna Dillahunt, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan’s School of Information, with courtesy appointment in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department
Monday March 30th, 2019
4:10-5:30pm
210 South Hall
April 2020
CANCELLED: Sasha Costanza-Chock, Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT
Monday April 13th, 2019
4:10-5:30pm
210 South Hall
CANCELLED: Tad Hirsch, Professor of Art + Design at Northeastern University
Monday April 20th, 2019
4:10-5:30pm
210 South Hall
Past Events
November 2019
Panel discussion with: Henriette Cramer (Principal Research Scientists, Spotify), Josh Lovejoy (Principal Design Manager, Microsoft), Dan Perkel (Director, IDEO), & Emily Witt (UX Researcher, Salesforce)
Monday November 25th, 2019
4:10-5:30pm
210 South Hall
Kate Starbird, Associate Professor, Department of Human-Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington
Monday November 18th, 2019
4:10-5:30pm
210 South Hall
Live stream link here
October 2019
Desmond Patton, Associate Professor of Social Work, Columbia University
Friday October 18th, 2019
4:10-5:30pm
202 South Hall
Live stream link here
September 2019
Michelle R. Carney, User Experience Researcher, Machine Learning + AI, Google
Monday September 23, 2019
4:10-5:30pm
210 South Hall
May 2019
Mary Gray, Senior Researcher, Microsoft Research New England in conversation with Prayag Narula, President and co-founder of LeadGenius and MIMS alum (2012)
Monday May 13th, 2019
4:10-5:30pm
202 South Hall
March 2019
AI in the Open World: Technology & Responsibility
Eric Horvitz, Technical Fellow and Director, Microsoft Research.
210 South Hall
February 2019
Hoyt Long, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Chicago
November 2018
Virginia Eubanks, University of Albany, SUNY
October 2018
Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Yale University
October 31, 2018, 4:10 pm to 5:30 pm
210 South Hall
June 2018
AFOG summer workshop — “Algorithms are Opaque and Unfair, Now What?”
June 15, 2018
by invitation only
April 2018
Christian Sandvig, University of Michigan
(co-sponsored with CSTMS)
April 30, 2018, 4:10-5:30 PM
210 South Hall
March 2018
Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
Inherent Trade-Offs in Algorithmic Fairness
[video available]
March 19, 2018, 4:10-5:30 PM
202 South Hall
February 2018
Angèle Christin, Stanford University
(co-sponsored with CSTMS)
Algorithms in Practice: Comparing Web Journalism and Criminal Justice
[video available]
Feb 26, 2018, 4:10-5:30 PM
470 Stephens Hall
January 2018
Karen Levy, Cornell University
(co-sponsored with the UC Berkeley Department of Sociology)
Data Driven: Truckers and The New Workplace Surveillance
January 22, 2018, 2:00-3:30 PM
Matrix, 8th floor, Barrows Hall
December 2017
Dawn Nafus, Intel Corporation
N of Many Ones: Creating Space for Alternative Data Flows
[video available]
Dec 4, 2017, 4:10-5:30 PM
202 South Hall
November 2017
Rich Caruana, Microsoft Research
Friends Don’t Let Friends Deploy Black-Box Models: The Importance of Intelligibility in Machine Learning for Bias Detection and Prevention
[video available]
November 8, 2017, 4:10-5:30 PM
202 South Hall
Lunch Talks
- Niloufar Salehi, Sam Robertson, and Tonya Nguyen, UC Berkeley
- Jack Stigloe, University College London
- Emily Denton (Google), Alex Hanna (Google), Razvan Amironessi (UC San Diego), Andrew Smart (Google), Hilary Nicole (Google)
- Shreeharsh Kelkar, UC Berkeley & Ben Shestakofsky, University of Pennsylvania
- Patrick Gage Kelley and Allison Woodruff, Google
- Michael Tschantz, UC Berkeley
- David G. Robinson, Cornell AI Policy and Practice Initiative
- Rediet Abebe, Cornell
- M. Mitchell, Google
- Arash Nourian, FICO
- Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Been Kim, Google
- Andrew Selbst, Data & Society Research Institute, Yale Law School
- Luke Stark, Dartmouth University
- Sonja Schmer-Galunder, Smart Information Flow Technologies (SIFT)
- Ziad Obermeyer, UC Berkeley School of Public Health