Saturday, December 4, 2021 The Symposium is an inter-college event where Res College students openly discuss the topics explored within each college’s respective theme.
Every student will give either a Presentation or a Poster, either as a group or as an individual project. Every student will also be an audience member for their peers.
At Registration, you will receive a name tag with your schedule on it. The Symposium is organized into two, concurrent, sessions: Session I: 1:40 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. & Session II: 3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Schedule overview is as follows:
12:30pm: Student and Moderator Registration, Holmes Hall Lobby 1pm: Opening Speaker, Shirah Moffatt-Darko ’18, Social Justice College, Trout Auditorium 1:40 - 3pm: Poster Session in Holmes Hall Lobby & Formal Presentations in Holmes Hall Classrooms 3:10pm - 4:30pm: Poster Session in Holmes Hall Lobby & Formal Presentations in Holmes Hall Classrooms 4:40 - 5pm: Plenary Party in Holmes Hall Lobby
This project examines the economic impacts of incorporating biased data into predictive tools, which generates concerns about algorithmic fairness and discrimination using data. Before determining whether the use of an algorithmic tool is appropriate in vital decision-making, an economic framework is required. Specifically, this project explores how algorithms fueled from biased data have costly economic effects on the criminal justice system, health care industry, and the education system. However, algorithmic use does have the potential to be economically beneficial while being just to everyone involved. I propose methods of ways to incorporate these algorithms into society that are economically fair and profitable.
