Intersectional Symposium on Computing and Society (C&S 2021)

The online symposium will highlight some of the exciting developments at the intersection of Computer Science and Social Sciences.

Virtual Max Planck Symposium on Computing and Society (C&S 2021)

Date: January 7-8, 2021

 

The symposium will highlight some of the exciting developments at the intersection of Computer Science and Social Sciences. 

The goal is to foster conversations between Computer Scientists and Social Scientists within Max Planck Society and beyond.

 

Program

(All Times are in CET)

 

 

January 7th, 2021

 
10:15 – 10:30 Welcome
10:30 – 12:30  Human-AI Symbiosis
  • Peter Dayan, MPI for Biological Cybernetics
  • Iyad Rahwan, MPI for Human Development
  • Abigail Adams-Prassl, University of Oxford
  • Jeremias Adams-Prassl, University of Oxford
 
13:30 – 15:30  AI Bias and (Un)Fairness
  • Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
  • Hoda Heidari, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Solon Boracas, Cornell University
  • Isabel Valera, MPI for Intelligent Systems & University of Saarland
 
16:00 – 18:00  Explaining & Understanding AI
  • Adrian Weller, University of Cambridge
  • Himabindu Lakkaraju, Harvard University
  • Christoph Engel, MPI for Research on Collective Goods
  • Katherine Strandburg, New York University

January 8th, 2021

 

 

10:30 – 12:30  Computational Social Science
  • Emilio Zagheni, MPI for Demographic Research
  • Eckehard Olbrich & Jürgen Jost, MPI for Mathematics in the Sciences
  • Manuel Gomez Rodriguez, MPI for Software Systems
  • Oana Goga, CNRS
 
13:30 – 15:30 Computing-mediated Social (Un)Discourse
  • Philipp Lorenz-Spreen & Ralph Hertwig, MPI for Human Development
  • Alan Mislove, Northeastern University
  • Christian Theobalt, MPI for Informatics
  • Elissa Redmiles, MPI for Software Systems
 
16:00 – 18:00  Privacy, Security, & Society
  • Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Asia Biega, MPI for Security & Privacy Michele Finck, MPI for Innovation and Competition
  • Jean-Louis van Gelder, MPI for Study of Crime, Security, and Law

Administrative Contacts: Krishna Gummadi, Christian Mickler & Carina Schmitt, MPI for Software Systems