The seminar meets this quarter Tuesdays, 1:30-2:30 virtually. Meeting links will be sent to the mailing list before each meeting.
| Week | Date | Discussion Leaders | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | March 31 | Matt J. & Naveena | Planning and organization |
| 1 | April 7 | Sudheesh |
Allocation for social good: Auditing Mechanisms for Utility MaximizationTaylor Lundy, Alexander Wei, Hu Fu, Scott Duke Kominers, and Kevin Leyton-Brown. 2019. Allocation for Social Good: Auditing Mechanisms for Utility Maximization. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 785–803. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3328526.3329623 |
| 2 | April 14 | Esther |
Roles for Computing in Social ChangeRediet Abebe, Solon Barocas, Jon Kleinberg, Karen Levy, Manish Raghavan, and David G. Robinson. 2020. Roles for computing in social change. In Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT* ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 252–260. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3351095.3372871 |
| 3 | April 21 | Naveena |
Towards an AI-powered Future that Works for Vocational WorkersDivy Thakkar Neha Kumar Nithya Sambasivan. Towards an AI-Powered Future that Works for Vocational Workers. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (2020) |
| 4 | April 28 | Richard |
How Important is the Yellow Pages? Experimental Evidence from TanzaniaAker, J, Blumenstock, J and Dillon, B. 2020. 'How Important is the Yellow Pages? Experimental Evidence from Tanzania'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14489 |
| 5 | May 5 | Matt J. |
The Rise of Guardians: Fact-checking URL recommendation to Combat Fake NewsNguyen Vo and Kyumin Lee. 2018. The Rise of Guardians: Fact-checking URL Recommendation to Combat Fake News. In The 41st International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research & Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 275–284. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3209978.3210037 |
| 6 | May 12 | Samia & Ahmad | |
| 7 | May 19 | Jason & Esther | |
| 8 | May 26 | Shri | |
| 9 | June 2 | TBD |