Based on their commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in computing, the Association of Computing Machinery has put forward a list of considerations to forming diverse teams. This list includes inherent characteristics such as race and ethnicity, gender identity and disability, as well as acquired […]
Tag: interdisciplinary
critML: Critical Tools for Machine Learning that Bring Together Intersectional Feminist Scholarship and Systems Design
Critical Tools for Machine Learning or CritML is a project that brings together critical intersectional feminist theory and machine learning systems design. The goal of the project is to provide ways to work with critical theoretical concepts that are rooted in intersectional feminist, anti-racist, post/de-colonial […]
Call for Contributions: New Materialist Informatics 2021
In recent decades, new materialist thought has emerged as a transversal field of inquiry that successfully brings together and constructs hybrid spaces between the social sciences & the humanities and the natural & technical sciences & engineering. Within those spaces, engagement with the concerns around […]
Experimenting with flows of work: how to create modes of working towards epistemic justice?
This is part three of a blog post series reflecting on a workshop, held at FAccT conference 2020 in Barcelona, about machine learning and epistemic justice. If you are interested in the workshop concept and the theory behind it as well as what is a […]
Finding common ground: charting workflows
This is part two of a blogpost series reflecting on a workshop, held at FAccT conference 2020 in Barcelona, about machine learning and epistemic justice. If you are interested in the workshop concept and the theory behind it, read our first article here. This post […]
“Where is the difficulty in that?” On planning responsible interdisciplinary collaboration
By Aviva de Groot, Danny Lämmerhirt, Phillip Lücking, Goda Klumbyte, Evelyn Wan This is the first in a series of blog posts on experiences gathered during the planning, execution and reflection of our workshop “Lost in Translation: An Interactive Workshop Mapping Interdisciplinary Translations for Epistemic […]
Lost in translation? Invitation to address the challenges of interdisciplinary cooperation in the FAT community
This post was originally published on Medium on 11 December 2019 and was written by Aviva de Groot, Danny Lämmerhirt, Evelyn Wan, Goda Klumbyte, Mara Paun, Phillip Lücking, and Shazade Jameson Introduction: The short of it The rapid deployment of complex computational, data-intense infrastructures profoundly […]