Workshop on the Ethics and Policy Implications of Big Data
February 15th-16th, 2019
UC San Diego
The workshop will bring together social and computer scientists, other academics, activists, and practitioners interested in the ethics and policy implications of algorithms and Big Data. The purpose of the workshop is to explore the state-of-the-art and immediate horizons of algorithms, Big Data, and automation and their interface with the social sciences and ethical issues. The panels are set up to facilitate lively and wide-ranging discussion.
The conference is sponsored by: the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute, the Institute for Practical Ethics, the Psychology Department, the Cognitive Science Department, the Sociology Department, the Political Science Department, and the Dean of Social Sciences.
Plenary Speakers:
Cecilia Aragon - University of Washington-Seattle
Stuart Geiger - University of California, Berkeley
Johannes Himmelreich - Stanford University
William FitzGerald - The Worker Agency (previously Google)
Per-Erik Milam - University of Twente
Joan Donovan - Technology and Social Change Research Project, Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
Sumandro Chattapadhyay - Centre for Internet and Society, India
Akos Rona-Tas - University of California, San Diego
Jackson Poulson - Hodge Star Scientific Computing (previously Google)
Reetika Khera - IIT, Dheli
Emory Roane - Privacy Rights Clearing House
Lilly Irani - University of California, San Diego
Dana Nelkin - University of California, San Diego
Molly Roberts - University of California, San Diego
Juan Pablo Pardo Guerra - University of California, San Diego
