Profesoram Agnim Andžānam bija milzīga nozīmē manā attīstībā, gan mācot matemātiku, gan kā paraugam pasniegšanā. Andžāna izveidotā sistēma un milzīgais darbs, ko viņš tajā ieguldīja, ir palīdzējusi sevi attīstīt tūkstošiem skolēnu. Paldies un mūžīga piemiņa!

Attention scholars. The deadline for our Fellows Program is fast-approaching. Don't miss out on a great opportunity to work with the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy community: citp.princeton.edu/fellows-progra…

“You Can’t Fix What You Can’t Measure”—New work on Privately Measuring Demographic Performance Disparities in Federated Learning, presented today at #TPDP2022 (and in October at ACM EAAMO (Handle Retired, Visit @EAAMO_ORG)):
- Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2206.12183
- 2-min talk: youtube.com/watch?v=6I6CCg…
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Quantitative research is essential for understanding tech policy problems and for holding platforms accountable. Here's the problem: methods and data often aren’t adequate. Mozilla and my group at Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy are launching an initiative to change that. rally.mozilla.org

Most damning in newly unsealed evidence (1) Google’s employees admitting there's almost no way NOT to provide your location to Google (2) Google designs its ecosystem for location data collection.
“This doesn’t sound like something we would want on the front page of the NYT.” /4

Read about Basileal Imana's, Aleksandra Korolova's, & John Heidemann's research of @Facebook's gender bias algorithm affecting job opportunities in social media ads.
Link to article: bit.ly/2R6wDkk

#genderequity #JobsFairness #computerscience

Meet USC Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science Ph.D student Basi Imana (@basilealyos), who is fighting gender bias in high-stakes applications, such as job advertising on social media.

His research won runner-up in best student paper category The Web Conference

viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2021/04/u…

#USC USC Office of Research & Innovation Aleksandra Korolova

Facebook is withholding certain job ads from women because of their gender, according to the latest audit of its ad service. bit.ly/3t9Mexa

If you advertise a job opening on Facebook, Facebook will *automatically* deliver it disproportionately to people of the gender who already have that job.

Is that just how advertising works in 2021? Nope! The researchers found that LinkedIn's job ads were delivered in a fair way