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Save the Date and CFP
I'm pleased to announce the Social Responsibility in Technology Symposium at UMBC! We have organized a special day of panels, talks, posters, and an invited speaker. This year the event is...
March 12, 2023
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5:41 PM
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Call for Participation
Universities are being called to revise their approaches to education to incorporate greater attention to social responsibility, specifically for students expected to participate in technology...
August 16, 2022
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11:10 AM
Faculty train how to develop ideas but not how to make real
"...To train students in implementation, instructors need to introduce students to stakeholders and teach them how to get stakeholder buy-in as they are developing their ideas. Consider again the...
June 2, 2022
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2:20 PM
We need a new kind of approach to learning
"...It is time to initiate Imagination Studies at every level of education, primary school through university. Studying the imagination – its creations, its processes (creativity), and its...
May 29, 2022
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11:47 AM
Director of OSTP asking hard questions about equity in STEM
“I’ve been studying marginalized communities’ relationships with science and technology, and have a depth of understanding that these communities don’t only see peril, but also promise,” says...
May 22, 2022
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1:37 PM
It Fails Us All: Design from the Margins
"...No small fixes can address the larger and deeply rooted structural issues that foreground how these technologies are deployed or weaponized. However, in centering, consulting, and...
May 15, 2022
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6:15 PM
Powerful new ways to boost public support for engineering...
"...As the graduate program director at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County’s College of Engineering and Information Technology, Woodrow Winchester III is used to discussing bold ideas...
May 15, 2022
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3:59 PM
Peace as a foundation for system designs
"...More generally, as noted by Brossard (2019), cultivating social imagination and investing in cultural and social capital is important for initiating real-world implementations of utopian...
May 8, 2022
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10:21 AM
Even if they’re interested in using them
"...As more and more health features get built into wearable devices, they’re becoming a major tool used both for individual people’s health and for medical research. But if groups like the ones...
May 2, 2022
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11:07 AM
There are competing notions of fairness
"...In other words, embedded within any algorithm is a value judgment about what to prioritize. For example, developers have to decide whether they want to be accurate in portraying what society...
April 24, 2022
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4:06 PM