please feel free to disseminate this announcement to your networks. while somewhat belated, happy new year to everyone, too. s.
We are pleased to announce the upcoming Algorithms and Accountability conference. The conference will take place on Saturday, February 28th, 2015 at New York University. Organized by the Information Law Institute, NYU School of Law, it is cosponsored by NYU Steinhardt Department of Media, Culture and Communications, the Intel Science & Technology Center for Social Computing and Microsoft.
Scholars, stakeholders, and policymakers question the adequacy of existing mechanisms governing algorithmic decision-making and grapple with new challenges presented by the rise of algorithmic power in terms of transparency, fairness, and equal treatment. Algorithms increasingly shape our news, economic options, and educational trajectories. The centrality and concerns about algorithmic decision making have only increased since we hosted the Governing Algorithms conference in May 2013. This event will build upon that conversation to address legal, policy and ethical challenges related to algorithmic power in three specific contexts: media production and consumption, commerce, and education.
Confirmed speakers include Oren Bar-Gill, Solon Barocas, Julie Brill, Ed Felten, Eric Goldman, James Grimmelmann, Seda Gürses, Michael Hawes, Meg Leta Jones, Frank Pasquale, Bernhard Rieder, David Robinson, Christian Sandvig, Natasha Schüll, George Siemens, Susan Silbey, Mitchell Stevens, Katherine Strandburg, Karen Yeung, and Elana Zeide.
Check for more information on the ILI website in January 2015, including registration details. Please join us on February 28th to add your insights to this important conversation.
The organizing committee,
Joris van Hoboken, Helen Nissenbaum and Elana Zeide