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SUMMARY:Roles for Computing in Social Justice with Rediet Abebe\, Harvard and UC Berkeley
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the Brown Institute sponsors talks that explore the intersection between media and technology. This year we have three virtual presentations lined up\, each challenging us to think about data and computation in new ways. Each talk is by researchers outside of journalism\, and yet we have a great deal to learn from their approaches to data and computation. \nRoles for Computing in Social Justice \nRegister to attend the lecture \nRecent scholarship in AI ethics warns that computing work has treated problematic features of the status quo as fixed\,  failing to address and even exacerbate deep patterns of injustice and inequality. Acknowledging these critiques\, we ask: what roles\, if any\, can computing play to support and advance fundamental social change? We articulate four such roles — computing as a diagnostic\, formalizer\, rebuttal\, and synecdoche — through an analysis that considers the opportunities as well as the significant risks inherent in such work. We then discuss how these insights may be used to support advocacy work aimed at fostering more equitable and just systems. \n\nAbout Rediet Abebe \n \nRediet Abebe is a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and an incoming Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of California\, Berkeley. Abebe holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Cornell University and graduate degrees in mathematics from Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. Her research is in artificial intelligence and algorithms\, with a focus on equity and justice concerns. Abebe is a co-founder and co-organizer of the multi-institutional\, interdisciplinary research initiative Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG). Her dissertation received the 2020 ACM SIGKDD Dissertation Award for offering the foundations of this emerging research area. Abebe’s work has informed policy and practice at the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the Ethiopian Ministry of Education. She has been honored in the MIT Technology Reviews’ 35 Innovators Under 35 and the Bloomberg 50 list as a one to watch. Abebe also co-founded Black in AI\, a non-profit organization tackling representation issues in AI. Her research is influenced by her upbringing in her hometown of Addis Ababa\, Ethiopia.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/roles-for-computing-in-social-justice-with-rediet-abebe-harvard-and-uc-berkeley/
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SUMMARY:The Brown Institute Virtual Mixer
DESCRIPTION:The Brown Institute offers grants\, fellowships and unique internships. Our granting program\, the so-called Magic Grants\, have supported numerous alumni from the school — read about our current cohort here.  You’ll see powerful investigative projects (one appearing on the front page of the New York Times this weekend) as well as grants that support new technologies for reporting or telling a story. We support great journalism and great tech and the mixture of the two.  Our internships are equally unique — last year three grads spent the fall looking into “participatory journalism” with Consumer Reports. Come and learn about Brown\, or programs and how we can help you during your time at Columbia and after.\nJoin us at https://ohyay.co/s/Brown-Institute-Mixer.
URL:https://brown.columbia.edu/event/spring_2021_virtual_mixer/
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