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PIT IN PRACTICE |
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In this Q&A series, PIT-UN talks to various technologists and practitioners who are helping define the field to learn about their PIT journey and outlook, in their words.
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT |
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Building the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology
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Charlton McIlwain, vice provost for Faculty Engagement and Development at New York University lays out the five steps that he and faculty took to establish the NYU Alliance for Public Interest Technology and set the framework for PIT field-building on campus.
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PIT CREWS |
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5 Questions with Fran Berman [Video]
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This month, we kick off our 5 Questions series with Fran Berman, director of public interest technology and Stuart Rice Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, and faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, who discusses the building blocks for PIT.
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GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT |
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Yulia Tsvetkov, assistant professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington, provides insights for successfully adopting the Computational Ethics for Natural Language Processing course that launched at Carnegie Mellon University in spring 2020.
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MEMBER SPOTLIGHT |
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Last Chance to Register: A BETTER TECH Conference and Career Fair (and Comprehensive Data Governance Webinar)
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Attend the A BETTER TECH Conference and Career Fair taking place Oct. 14-15. Plus, attend the What is Comprehensive Data Governance and Why Should You Care? An Introduction to the first Metric of Comprehensive Data Governance webinar that takes place today at 11 am ET.
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PONDERING
PIT
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"It's not about having amazing tools that are super important, or even this strategy, methodology or approach. It's a paradigm shift in the way we develop and deploy these machine learning systems ... It's a hard thing to do, but at the heart of how we make a change and operationalize responsible AI, and transparency."
Christine Custis, @ChristineCustis
Head of ABOUT ML and Fairness, Transparency, and Accountability, the Partnership on AI
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Cracking Open the Black Box: Promoting Fairness, Accountability, & Transparency Around High-Risk AI
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WHAT TO ATTEND
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A BETTER TECH, the 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair, is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technology (Oct. 14-15).
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