[Colloquium] 5/7 Distinguished Lecture Series: Cynthia Dwork, Harvard University

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*Distinguished Lecture Series:  Cynthia Dwork, Harvard University*



*Monday, May 7, 2018 at 10:30 am (TIME CHANGE)*

*TTIC*

*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*

*Room #526​*

For more details please visit our website at www.ttic.edu/dls



*Cynthia Dwork*

Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science

Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study

Affiliated Faculty at Harvard Law School

Harvard University

https://www.seas.harvard.edu/directory/dwork



*Title*: What’s Fair?



*Abstract**:* Data, algorithms, and systems have biases embedded within
them reflecting designers’ explicit and implicit choices, historical
biases, and societal priorities. They form, literally and inexorably, a
codification of values. “Unfairness” of algorithms – for tasks ranging from
advertising to recidivism prediction – has attracted considerable attention
in the popular press. The talk will discuss recent work in the nascent
mathematically rigorous study of fairness in classification and scoring.

*Bio**:* Cynthia Dwork is the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at
the Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Radcliffe
Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and an
Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School. She has done seminal work
in distributed computing, cryptography, and privacy-preserving data
analysis. Her most recent foci include stability in adaptive data analysis
(especially via differential privacy) and fairness in classification.
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