Talk about their book the ethical algorithm. I think a day does not go by in the news or otherwise or in our own work when the subject of algorithmic fairness or privacy is not frontpage news. Today were going to speak to the two leading lights in that area and theyre going to help us understand whatthe stateoftheart is now and what the stateoftheart will be going forward. With that, i think we will welcome Michael Kearns first to the stage. Michael kearns andaaron roth, welcome to the stage. [applause] good morning, thanks to everyone for coming. My name is Michael Kearns and with my close friend and colleague erin roth we have coauthored a book, a general audience book called the ethical algorithm subtitle is the science of socially aware algorithm design. So we want to do for roughly half an hour or so is take you at a high level through what some of the major themes of the book are and then we will open it up as jeff said to q a. So i think many, many people and certainly this audi
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And she is he writes and speaks of black politics, social movements and racial inequality in the United States. Shes here for her third book, race for profit how banks and the Real Estate Industry undermined black homeownership. Sorry. She will be in discussion with professor Dorothy E Roberts from the university of pennsylvania was a socioeconomic and social justice advocate. I would like to introduce keanngayamahtta taylor. [applause] hello everyone. Thanks for coming. My talk fourth talked of sweet. Very glad to be here in philly. I begin this project began this project in 20082009 and was most about chicago. Do i need this . Mostly about chicago. And detroit. And when i move to philadelphia, i found out there was a story here. So philly has been an important part of me writing this book so im very glad to be able to actually be here and talk to you. Its a difficult book to read from. Kind of tents. But readable. So what im going to do is give a kind of narrative arc that really cov
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