CAIS Webinar: Beyond Datasets – How the Small Decisions We Make Affect The Tools We Build

Speaker: Nyalleng Moorosi, Senior Researcher at DAIR

Talk Title: Beyond Datasets -“ How the Small Decisions We Make Affect The Tools We Build

Series: CS Colloquium

Abstract: Data and our understanding of correctness and ground truth are a function of our history, culture and our position in society. In this talk, I wish to share with you some of the often nondocumented decisions we make as builders of machine learning tools and how they challenge the theory of building for all

This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium

Biography: Nyalleng Moorosi is a senior researcher at DAIR, and her research interests are in understanding how we can build models which center populations often regarded as peripheral.

Register for the Zoom webinar here: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_evMt4EB7S9SVoq0XVzJ1yw

Host: CAIS

More Info: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_evMt4EB7S9SVoq0XVzJ1yw

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Melissa Ochoa

Event Link: https://usc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_evMt4EB7S9SVoq0XVzJ1yw