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SUMMARY:From Big Data to banality of evil : toward an epistemological appr
 oach to ethics in Internet Era   - Kavé Salamatian (University of Savoie)
DTSTART:20140516T100000Z
DTEND:20140516T110000Z
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CONTACT:Eiko Yoneki
DESCRIPTION:The past months have been filled with various revelations abou
 t NSA generalized surveillance. That information are added to massive comm
 ercial usage of private information anse the increasing usage of algorithm
 s to control larger component of our fundamental rights (freedom of speech
 \,right to privacy\, freedom of thought\, …)  pose crucial question not 
 only for humanities or political science\, but also to « hard » sciences
 . All these control tools are developed by computer scientist and develope
 rs that are somewhat finding themselves in the feet of the of the physicis
 t of the middle of XX century. It is therefore mandatory to develop and et
 hic and an epistemology of algorithms for people who develop them. This is
  indeed a huge task and will need a multi-disciplinary approach. The goal 
 of this talk is to discuss about these questions.\n\nBio: Kavé Salamatian
  is a full professor at University of Savoie. His main areas of researches
  are Internet measurement and modeling\, and networking information theory
 . He was previously reader at Lancaster University\, UK and associate prof
 essor at University Pierre et Marie Curie. Kavé has graduated in 1998 fro
 m Paris SUD-Orsay university where he worked on joint source channel codin
 g applied to multimedia transmission over Internet for his Phd.\nIn a form
 er life\, he graduated with a MBA\, and worked on market floor as a risk a
 nalyst and enjoyed being an urban traffic modeler for some years. He is wo
 rking these day on figuring out if networking is a science or just a hobby
  and if it is a science what are its fundamentals.\n
LOCATION:FW26\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Builiding
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