SERC Symposium 2023

Schedule

Tue Apr 18 2023 at 08:00 am to 06:30 pm

Location

MIT Media Lab | Cambridge, MA

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Bringing together social scientists and humanists with engineers and computer scientists to showcase the work of the MIT community
About this Event

Bringing together social scientists and humanists with engineers and computer scientists, the Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC) within the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing, is hosting its inaugural symposium that will showcase the work of MIT faculty, postdocs, and students advancing education and research in this domain.

AGENDA
Panel 1: Implications of Data and Algorithms

Moderator: Asu Ozdaglar, Deputy Dean of Academics & Department Head, Schwarzman College of Computing and EECS

  • Srini Devadas, Professor, EECS
  • John Horton, Richard S. Leghorn (1939) Career Development Professor, Sloan
  • Simon Johnson, Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship, Sloan
  • Sarah Williams, Associate Professor, Technology and Urban Planning


Session 1: Beneficent and Fair AI

Session Chair: Georgia Perakis, Associate Dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing, MIT Schwarzman College of Computing; William F. Pounds Professor of Management, MIT Sloan

  • Manish Raghavan, Drew Houston (2005) Career Development Professor, EECS and Sloan
  • Fotini Christia, Director & Ford International Professor, IDSS and Political Science
  • Maximilan Kasy, Professor of Economics, Oxford
  • Sherrie Wang, Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering and IDSS


Session 2: Equitable and Personalized Health

Session Chair: TBD

  • Dimitris Bertsimas, Associate Dean for Business Analytics & Professor, Sloan
  • Nikos Trichakis, Associate Professor, Sloan
  • Marzyeh Ghassemi, Assistant Professor, EECS and IMES
  • Amy Moran Thomas, Associate Professor, Anthropology


Session 3: Algorithms and Humans

Session Chair: Dan Huttenlocher, Dean, Schwarzman College of Computing

  • Vivek Farias, Patrick J. McGovern (1959) Professor, Sloan
  • Sendhil Mullainathan, Roman Family University Professor, Chicago Booth
  • Ashesh Rambachan, Assistant Professor, Economics


Panel 2: Ethics and Computing Education

Moderator: Caspar Hare, Associate Dean of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing & Professor of Philosophy, MIT

  • Katrina LaCurts, Senior Lecturer & Undergraduate Officer, EECS
  • Eden Medina, Associate Professor, Program on Science, Technology and Society
  • Milo Phillips-Brown, Associate Professor, Oxford
  • John Basl, Associate Professor, Northeastern University
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MIT Media Lab, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, United States

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