ViC at Dagstuhl

ViC was at Dagstuhl!

ViC at Dagstuhl
ViC at Dagstuhl
Title / Seminar number: 19291

Values in Computing

Organizers

Christoph Becker (University of Toronto, CA)
Gregor Engels (Universität Paderborn, DE)
Andrew Feenberg (Simon Fraser University – Burnaby, CA)
Maria Angela Ferrario (Lancaster University, UK)
Geraldine Fitzpatrick (TU Wien, AT)

Aim: to examine the  relations between human values, computing technologies and society. It does so by bringing together practitioners and researchers from several areas within and beyond computer science, including human computer interaction, software engineering, computer ethics, moral philosophy, philosophy of technology, investigative data science, and critical data studies.

Outcomes: a research agenda to be included in the Dagstuhl Report; and a jointly designed ‘Values in Computing’ teaching module, to be piloted across a selection of participating universities.

Values in Computing Dagstuhl micro site

Dagstuhl seminars are a fantastic opportunity for academics and practitioners  to come together, exchange experiences, explore ideas and put research to work. The seminar took pace on 15-19 July 2019.

 

ViC at UofT

Bluebug, Toronto, photo by m@ViC

Marie from team ViC has a visiting position at the DCI, University of Toronto, Canada (as a DCI Fellow in Digital Sustainability). This week she will be giving a talk on ‘Values in Computing, Connecting the Bits’.

This talk introduces some of the tools and emerging findings from ViC latest work and from activities carried out at UofT as part of her fellowship. A broader perspective on the issues connecting tech industry, academic research, and governance will be thrown into the mix as well as provocations from the current state of affairs and the metaphysical roots of the binary system.