Seventh Annual Digital Ethics Symposium

  • October 13, 2017
  • 8:30 AM - 5:00 CST
  • Lewis Towers, Regents Hall, 16th Floor
  • Genevieve Buthod, gbuthod@luc.edu
  • Students, faculty, staff, alumni, and the public
    Open to the public.
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    Please join us for the Seventh Annual Digital Ethics Symposium, a day-long event featuring panels, interviews, discussions and a keynote speaker, all focusing on issues of modern digital ethics.

    Data scientist Cathy O'Neil will deliver her keynote address from 12:00-1:30 p.m. Cathy O'Neil is the author of the New York Times bestselling Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, which was also a semifinalist for the National Book Award. She earned a PhD in Math from Harvard, was a postdoctoral fellow in the MIT math department, and a professor at Barnard College where she published a number of research papers in arithmetic algebraic geometry. In 2011, she started working as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene. Cathy wrote Doing Data Science in 2013 and launched the Lede Program in Data Journalism at Columbia in 2014. She is a columnist for Bloomberg View. You can read her personal blog at https://mathbabe.org.

    Be sure to register to guarantee your spot! If you have any questions, please contact School of Communication Event Coordinator Genevieve Buthod at gbuthod@luc.edu.