Events - March 2020

Tuesday, March 31, 2020 — 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM EDT

CANCELLED Waterloo.ai Seminar: Alice Xiang on Algorithmic Fairness and the Law

Please join us for the next institute seminar on Tuesday, March 31 at 1:30pm in DC 1302.

Title: Algorithmic Fairness and the Law

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Friday, March 20, 2020 — 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM EDT

CANCELLED Waterloo.ai Seminar: Jelena Mitrović on Computational Rhetoric and Neural Networks in Abusive Language Detection

Please join us for the next institute seminar on Friday, March 20 at 2:30pm in DC 1302.

Title: Computational Rhetoric and Neural Networks in Abusive Language Detection

Abstract: TBD

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Friday, March 13, 2020 — 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM EDT

CANCELLED Waterloo.ai Seminar: Kate Larson on Fair Reward Division

Please join us for the next institute seminar on Friday, March 13 at 10:30am in DC 1302.

Title: Fair Reward Division

Abstract:

Axiomatic approaches are an appealing method for designing fair algorithms, as they provide a formal structure for reasoning about and rationalizing individual decisions. However, to make these algorithms useful in practice, their axioms must appropriately capture social norms.