Computer Science Class of ’60s Speaker – Jon Kleinberg, Cornell

Designing Algorithms for High-Stakes Decisions

Algorithms are increasingly used to aid decision-making in high-stakes settings including employment, lending, healthcare, and the legal system. These developments have led to an ecosystem of growing complexity in which algorithms and people interact around consequential decisions. We consider some of the societal challenges that have emerged from this process, focusing in particular on the ways in which sources of bias and discrimination can affect algorithmic decision-making, and how we can work to understand and detect these effects. (This talk will include joint work with Jens Ludwig, Sendhil Mullainathan, Manish Raghavan, and Cass Sunstein.)

Jon Kleinberg is the Tisch University Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Information Science at Cornell University. His research focuses on the interaction of algorithms and networks, the roles they play in large-scale social and information systems, and their broader societal implications. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and National Academy of Engineering, and the recipient of MacArthur, Packard, Simons, Sloan, and Vannevar Bush research fellowships, as well awards including the Harvey Prize, the Nevanlinna Prize, and the ACM Prize in Computing.

*** Students, Faculty and Staff are welcome to attend in person (Wege Auditorium), the talk is free and open to the public on Zoom. CS colloquium credit will only be awarded for in person attendance.***

Zoom: https://williams.zoom.us/j/95700599639?pwd=ajQxaEUvcmt0c0tPNDJmNEYwQVdUQT09