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Guests include Moon Duchin (Tufts), Frank Pasquale (Maryland), and Nick Seaver (Tufts). A symposium organized by the Classification Seminar Academic Building West Wing, Room 6051 What are the social and cultural consequences of ubiquitous large-scale data-gathering? The twenty-first century has seen an unprecedented expansion of information capture and storage by state bureaucracies, corporations, academic research teams, and even individuals. As the data floods in, how is it used to group and divide people and things? What preexisting classifications are brought to bear, and what principles of organization emerge? And how are these expansive data regimes experienced and contested in everyday life? Invited guests and CCA Classification Seminar members will address these urgent questions from a variety of humanistic and social-scientific perspectives. Moon Duchin Moon Duchin is an associate professor of mathematics at Tufts University. She specializes in geometry, topology, and dynamics. For the last several years she been engaged in geometrical and computational research about voting and elections, serving as a consulting expert in Pennsylvania's 2018 redistricting. Frank Pasquale Frank Pasquale is a professor of law at the University of Maryland. He researches the law, policy, and ethics of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and machine learning. He is the author of The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms that Control Money and Information (Harvard University Press, 2015). Nick Seaver Nick Seaver is an assistant professor of Anthropology and Science, Technology, & Society at Tufts University. His research examines how culturally significant concepts like taste and attention are operationalized in algorithmic infrastructures. |
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Guests speak on the topic of Data, Classification, and Everyday Life.
