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We Robot is the most exciting interdisciplinary conference on the legal and policy questions relating to robots. The increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment everywhere—from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, and even to the battlefield—disrupts existing legal regimes and requires new thinking on policy issues.
If you are on the front lines of robot theory, design, or development, we hope to see you. Come join the conversations between the people designing, building, and deploying robots, and the people who design or influence the legal and social structures in which robots will operate.
The increasing power of big data and algorithmic decision-making—in commercial, government, and even non-profit contexts—has raised concerns among academics, activists, journalists and legal experts. Three characteristics of algorithmic ordering have made the problem particularly difficult to address: the data used may be inaccurate or inappropriate, algorithmic modeling may be biased or limited, and the uses of algorithms are still opaque in many critical sectors – See more at: http://isp.yale.edu/event/unlocking-black-box-promise-and-limits-algorithmic-accountability-professions#sthash.Ptqyi1ab.dpuf
The world’s premier privacy conference, the Global Privacy Summit is your go-to for innovative, world-class education, fantastic networking and privacy training and certification. Training and workshops will take place April 3-4, and the conference will follow on April 5-6.
For more information, including submitting proposals to speak at the Summit, please click here.
Join CDT April 6, 2016, at the Marriott Marquis for CDT’s Annual Dinner. The evening, fondly known as Tech Prom, will feature the most influential minds of today’s tech policy world, and will highlight the most pressing issues in the field. It will also provide many opportunities to mingle, connect, and exchange views with a variety of attendees from all sectors.
Designing for Digital is a two-day conference packed with intensive, hands-on workshops and informative sessions meant to bring together colleagues working on user experience, discovery, design and usability projects inside and outside of libraries, drawing expertise from the tech and education communities, as well as from peers. Learn more about who we are and what we’re doing.
Join us for demos and lightning talks by Columbia researchers presenting their latest work in data science. The event is designed to foster collaboration between innovators in academia and industry.
How and why do people resist (perceived or actual) invasions of their privacy? Empirically, we know relatively little about resistance practices, and we lack developed theoretical frameworks to help us understand how and why it occurs. But resistance is fast becoming an important focus for scholarly attention, as surveillance becomes more pervasive, wholesale opt-out becomes less feasible, and circumvention strategies are criminalized. This talk takes a grounded approach to developing new theoretical and empirical knowledge about resistance to surveillance, based on an in-depth ethnographic study of digital monitoring in the United States trucking industry. I discover a wide range of resistance practices truckers use to foil regulatory and organizational surveillance of their work behaviors – ranging from material interventions to creative data manipulations, organizational strategies to collaborative evasion tactics that enlist seemingly disinterested third parties.
It’s an old adage that journalists write the first draft of history, and historians compose the second. But what happens after that? Now in its second year, “Mistakes Were Made” proposes that getting history wrong is the inevitable precondition of historical research, as each generation of writers explores that gaps and ghosts left by the previous. Turning these insights on the swiftly obsolescing world of computer history, this event gathers emerging scholars challenging traditional technology narratives, and pairs them with creative coders, new media artists, tech innovators, and other members of computer culture’s past and present “fringe.”
The Intensive is where the data protection community meets to gain new insight on the top issues and new skills and operational expertise while networking with colleagues and peers from across Europe. Recognised as one of the world’s leading privacy conferences, it offers practical education, distinguished networking and data protection training and certification.
For more information, including paper submissions, please click here.
FACETS grew out out of a need for a new type of conference and a new type of conversation. Art, interactive technology, new media and game design are making innovative, beautiful things and are using similar tools and having similar, ground breaking discoveries and conversations but not with each other. What can a game designer learn from the linear mathematics used from procedurally generated music? What can the new media academic teach the creative technologist? How does technology inform storytelling, and how will video game design change cinema? The aim of FACETS is to create a cross disciplinary conference that facilitates conversation, mentorship, innovation, and ideation across these disciplines. We all make amazing things, let’s make them together.
Organized by Caroline Sinders and created by Caroline Sinders, Mohini Freya Dutta, Phoenix Perry, and Jane Friedhoff, FACETS started out of a frustration with a lack of places to discuss interactive art, media, and game design, particularly with talented and underrepresented demographics in STEM.