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The program for FORC 2020 is now live! responsiblecomputing.org/program/ Register for FREE to attend the online event on June 1+2. In addition to a terrific set of contributed talks, we have amazing keynote speakers: Adrian Weller, Rakesh Vohra, Patricia Williams, Jon Kleinberg. Retweet!

New #acl2020nlp work "Double-Hard Debias: Tailoring Word Embeddings for Gender Bias Mitigation" by awesome intern @Tianlu_Wang We show corpus regularities such as word freq lead to inaccurate estimation of gender subspace hence hurt existing approaches. arxiv.org/abs/2005.00965

"A Survey of Learning Causality with Data: Problems and Methods" is finally accepted by ACM CSUR after three major revisions! It is a great learning experience by addressing issues from very helpful reviewers! You can find a preprint version on arxiv arxiv.org/pdf/1809.09337…

Sadly could not attend #CHI2020, but I enjoyed browsing through the program. I created a reading list of papers on human-AI interaction (broadly). Ofc I must have missed some great papers on the topic. Let me know :) #AI #HCI docs.google.com/document/d/1CC…

#fairaichi20 @stonybrooku researchers sharing "Measuring Social Biases of CrowdWorkers using Counterfactual Queries" - how can we help prevent bias from entering into data? Read more: fair-ai.owlstown.com/publications/1…

I've hit a minor milestone in my academic career: 100 citations (according to GoogleScholar). My first article (rejected 3 times) is responsible for almost half (46). I share this because I almost gave up a career in academia (before it started) due to the rejections. Persevere.

Google wrote, “this result [was] unacceptable. The connection with this outcome and racism is important to recognize, and we are deeply sorry for any harm this may have caused.” Great follow up by @nicolaskb @algorithmwatch on CV thermometer/gun mixup. algorithmwatch.org/en/story/googl…

Before the media blitz & retweet party get out of control, this idea exists, has been published, has a name, and a clearer justification. It is called ***Counterfactually-Augmented Data*** and here's the published paper (spotlight at #ICLR2020). arxiv.org/abs/1909.12434

We're one week away from our virtual conference on COVID-19 and AI. RSVP to learn more about AI applications in epidemiological tracking, and the impact of pandemics on economies, culture, government and human behavior. stanford.io/2WLspz4

Ch. 2, "Models and Assumptions" of our #causalreasoning book is up, w/sections on causal graphs, structural equations, where does a graph come from, and potential outcomes. Written w/@amt_shrma Next chap is on identification, coming soon! causalinference.gitlab.io/causal-reasoni…

The digital world is even more important than it was in January. Ensuring it works for everyone has never been more critical. ACM FAccT (formerly FAT*) 2020 videos now online: keynotes, tutorials, papers. Hopefully the ideas in it can be of modest help. youtube.com/channel/UCs16j…

@QVeraLiao Congrats :)

Very happy to share this paper on #ExplainableAI #UX received a #CHI2020 Best Paper Honorable Mention! Great experience studying and learning from many awesome IBM designers and UXers

As someone worked for both industry & academia, I think: Academia: X salary, Y workload, Z freedom Industry: >2X salary, <0.8Y workload, <0.4Z freedom Joy of Job = w1 salary - w2 workload + w3 freedom Based on your weights for each factor, you decide which you'll enjoy more!

AKBC 2020 Abstract Deadline (February 6) is less than a month away! Please submit your work to the conference. Website (akbc.ws/2020/cfp/) has been updated with submission details. #AKBC #AKBC2020

Explainable Active Learning (XAL): An Empirical Study of How Local Explanations Impact Annotator Experience deepai.org/publication/ex… by @BhavyaGhai et al. including @QVeraLiao #ActiveLearning #MachineLearning

As director of @Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society @HCRCS I am thrilled to bring to your attention our new CRCS summer fellowship program for PhD students. Note application deadline: Feb 28. crcs.seas.harvard.edu/crcs-summer-fe… @red_abebe #AIforGood #AIforSocialImpact

I analyzed compensation & level details of 19k tech workers to find answers to: 1. How long does it take for SWEs to reach a certain level? 2. Compensations across jobs/levels? 3. Do women get paid less than men in tech? 4. Is there a deadline for SWEs? huyenchip.com/2020/01/18/tec…

CS Professor @jahendler & daughter @MaliHH wrote an article featured in Wired on conversational AI and gender ethics, highlighting that designers must consider how their AIs may perpetuate gender stereotypes. wired.com/story/opinion-…

it me during my postdoc