Dear colleagues,

 

I am pleased to share information about the discussion panel the ACM Technology Policy Council is sponsoring with ACM’s Diversity and Inclusion Council, NSF, and Clarkson University next Monday (March 29) at 11:30 PDT / 2:30 EDT / 8:30pm CET, around the acclaimed documentary Coded Bias and the policy implications of algorithmic bias.  This event is hosted in celebration of Women’s History Month and continues our collective attention to issues of AI ethics in policy.

 

We are fortunate to have three wonderful scholars participating in this discussion, drawn from our US, Europe, and Council groups, and a distinguished member of the legal profession. Two of the speakers are members of the Technology Policy Council – Latanya Sweeney and Jeanna Matthews – and they will be joined by EuropeTPC member Dame Wendy Hall (past President of ACM, and ACM Fellow) and federal Judge Bernice Donald (a leader in the American Bar Association on issues of technology and the law). 

 

We hope you will join us for this event next week (it is timed to be sensitive to our global time zones).  We also especially appreciate you sharing the announcement below with your colleagues and organizations – it is free, open to the public, and promises to be an engaging session.  Registration information is included at the end and provides free keyed access to the film.

 

Special thanks are due to Jeanna Matthews and USTPC’s Paul Hyland, who recommended the viewing and discussion of this documentary and helped to organize the panel, and to John West and Natalie Enright Jerger of the ACM Diversity and Inclusion Council for their support.  Please note that Jeanna has also previously shared information about additional related events at her campus.

 

We hope to see you, and your comments and questions, next Monday.

 

My best regards,

Lorraine

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Lorraine Kisselburgh, PhD

Purdue University

lorraine@purdue.edu  |  www.lkisselburgh.net  | @lkisselburgh

Chair, ACM Technology Policy Council

kisselburgh@acm.org  | www.acm.org/public-policy | @acmpolicy

 

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From Coded Bias to Algorithmic Fairness: How do we get there?

March 29 Panel Discussion

 

ACM’s Technology Policy Council and the Diversity and Inclusion Council invite ACM members and colleagues to a screening and public discussion of the acclaimed documentary Coded Bias and how those in computer science fields can address issues of algorithmic fairness. The discussion is scheduled for Monday, March 29, 2021 at 2:30-4:00pm EDT (8:30pm CET).

 

Our guest panelists include Dame Wendy Hall, Reigus Professor of Computer Science and Associate Vice President at the University of Southampton and Chair of the Ada Lovelace Institute, Latanya Sweeney, Daniel Paul Professor of Government and Technology at Harvard University, and the Honorable Bernice Donald, Federal Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Jeanna Matthews, Professor of Computer Science at Clarkson University and one of the lead authors of ACM’s USTPC/EuropeTPC Joint Statement on Algorithmic Transparency and Accountability, will moderate the discussion.

 

Registration is free and open to the public and provides keyed access to view the documentary any time before March 29.  The event is supported by a National Science Foundation ADVANCE Grant (#1936144) and co-sponsored by Clarkson University. Panelist bios, background resources, and a session recording can be found here.