information science
Congratulations to all of our 2019 award winners and graduates.- Mozilla is awarding $2.4 million to 17 initiatives that integrate ethics into undergraduate computer science courses.
- The issue isn’t that the technology itself is racist — instead, as Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, an Information Science PhD student at the University of Colorado Boulder and one of the signatories of the letter told The Verge at the time, these technologies “are reinforcing human biases” and perpetuating inequality as a result.
- Casey Fiesler: Over the past four years, as I’ve studied online fandom platforms, I’ve heard from thousands of AO3 users, some of whom have described the platform and the community that surrounds it as having literally saved their lives.
- Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, a researcher at University of Colorado Boulder who studies gender recognition algorithms, believes that the government should work toward actual policies to hold agencies accountable for their AI development, not just technical guidelines:
The CMCI recognition ceremony at the Ƶ Event Center will take place the day after Ƶ's graduation ceremony at Folsom Field.- Featuring Information Science Assistant Professor Casey Fiesler
Two students, decades apart, show how technology continues to evolve the way images come to light.- Featuring Information Science Assistant Professor Casey Fiesler
- Featuring Information Science Assistant Professor Casey Fiesler