Event Category: Data & Society

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Data science challenges facing industry today and the shifting consumer attitude toward data-driven and intelligent systems…

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Don’t let cybersecurity become the next digital divide!

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D&S fellow Wilneida Negrón organized a webinar on Ethics in Designing Data Interventions. D&S affiliate Solon Barocas also participated in the discussion. A recording of webinar is available here. They consider what risks and benefits frameworks should legal aid groups and decision makers when designing data-driven interventions? How can data regulation, policy, and standards effectively govern and provide accountability? […]

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RSVP here. Genomics, the collection and interpretation of DNA sequences, has long promised to change the way doctors practice medicine, scientists research disease and the environment, and ultimately the way we understand ourselves. In the past, reading DNA was slow, laborious, and expensive. Reading the first human genome cost $3 billion and took 13 years […]

D&S will host a workshop on the intersection of technology and work/labor. To participate, apply by November 1.

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How are those who design, deploy and manage AI systems currently reconfiguring the dimensions of human-machine cooperation? As part of Data & Society’s Intelligence & Autonomy Initiative, Madeleine Elish and Tim Hwang conducted long-term research with a range of practitioners working in the intelligent systems and AI industry. Collected in booklet form, An AI Pattern Language […]

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RSVP here. In the early 2000s, a group of scientists from outside mainstream biology proposed that they would make living things behave like computers. They would treat DNA like command code; they would make cells behave with Boolean logic; and ultimately they would make life programmable. They called their field synthetic biology. Since its inception, […]

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RSVP here. Synthetic biology endeavors to program life as we would program computers—only with DNA instead of machine code. For the past 20 years, synthetic biologists have reshaped what living things do by rewriting their DNA. They’ve turned living cells into biosensors, fuel and medicine producers, and far more. In this workshop, you will learn […]

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Meryl Alper will lead this small group discussion based on her new book Giving Voice: Mobile Communication, Disability, and Inequality (MIT Press, 2017). RSVP here.