I-DISC Data and Computing Equity and Justice (DCEJ) Lecture

Data journalist Meredith Broussard will deliver the inaugural I-DISC Data and Computing Equity and Justice (DCEJ) lecture. Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University, research director at the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology, and the author of Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World.

 

Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute of New York University and the author of the award-winning book Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World. Her research focuses on artificial intelligence in investigative reporting, with a particular interest in using data analysis for social good. She is an affiliate faculty member at the Moore Sloan Data Science Environment at the NYU Center for Data Science, a 2019 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow, and her work has been supported by the Institute of Museum & Library Services as well as the Tow Center at Columbia Journalism School. A former features editor at the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has also worked as a software developer at AT&T Bell Labs and the MIT Media Lab. Her features and essays have appeared in The Atlantic, Slate, Vox, and other outlets. Follow her on Twitter @merbroussard or contact her via meredithbroussard.com.

In person, Whitaker Lab Room 303 (WH 303), with reception to follow.
 

Virtually, via Zoom webinar. The event will be live-streamed but will not be recorded.
 

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This event is sponsored by the Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation (I-DISC); the departments of Industrial & Systems Engibeering (ISE), Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), and Journalism & Communications; the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS) and Africana Studies programs; the Office of the Vice President and Associate Provost for Research and Graduate Studies; the Office of the Vice President for Equity and Community; and the Center for Ethics.