[FRIAM] [Colloquia] Cris Moore's colloquium talk this Wednesday

[Stephen Guerin]

for those that can't make that zoom time, Day 2 of Cris's SFI Ulam Lecture
might cover similar ground

https://youtu.be/Sg2jtEY6qms


On Mon, Apr 11, 2022, 10:19 AM Angel Edward <edward.angel at gmail.com> wrote:

> I thought you two might be interested in Cris Moore’s CS colloquium this
> Wed.
>
> Tom: we may be going back to live FRIAM at St John’s this week. I’m
> waiting for Stephen to verify.
>
> Ed
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> *From: *Jared Saia <saiajc at gmail.com>
> *Subject: **[Colloquia] Cris Moore's colloquium talk this Wednesday*
> *Date: *April 9, 2022 at 9:54:50 AM MDT
> *To: *colloquia at cs.unm.edu, csgrad <csgrad at cs.unm.edu>, CS Faculty mail
> list <csfaculty at cs.unm.edu>, csundergrad at cs.unm.edu, Cristopher Moore <
> moore at santafe.edu>
> *Reply-To: *saia at cs.unm.edu
>
> *Date:* Wednesday, April 13th at 2pm Mountain Time
>
> *Speaker*: Cris Moore
>
> *Talk Title*: Fairness and accuracy (and transparency and…) in algorithms
> for criminal justice and housing
>
> *Location*: https://unm.zoom.us/j/96675948342
>
> passcode is: 130697
>
> *Abstract*
> The study of algorithmic bias has become a burgeoning subfield of AI,
> machine learning, and theoretical computer science. Many people are now
> working to design algorithms that guarantee various kinds of statistical
> fairness. I want to take a 90-degree turn from this, and share some
> experiences of working on algorithms “on the ground,” including a study of
> a pretrial risk assessment algorithm in Bernalillo County where Albuquerque
> is located. By collaborating with legal scholars, court administrators,
> housing lawyers, and others, I’ve learned how they think about fairness in
> decision making: they are concerned not just with statistics, but with
> procedural issues—who has the burden of proof, and how data and algorithms
> can be explained, audited, and contested. I’ll also share some thoughts on
> what I think our responsibilities are as computer scientists to engage with
> these domains more deeply.
>
> *Bio*
> Cristopher Moore received his B.A. in Physics, Mathematics, and Integrated
> Science from Northwestern University, and his Ph.D. in Physics from
> Cornell. From 2000 to 2012 he was a professor at the University of New
> Mexico, with joint appointments in Computer Science and Physics. Since
> 2012, Moore has been a resident professor at the Santa Fe Institute. He has
> also held visiting positions at the Niels Bohr Institute, École Normale
> Superieure, École Polytechnique, Université Paris 7, Northeastern
> University, the University of Michigan, and Microsoft Research. He is an
> elected Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Mathematical
> Society, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. With
> Stephan Mertens, he is the author of The Nature of Computation from Oxford
> University Press.
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