CSE 440/441/540 Spring 2022 Schedule
Spring 2022 schedule for the ML and Society course.
Future Lectures
The topics for lectures in the future are tentative and subject to change.
Future Listening/Reading/Watching Assignments
All listening/reading/watching assignments for future lectures are tentative till the week before the lecture. You can definitely listen/read/watch up on the future assignments but your discussion summaries will have to be based on the final reading assignments.
| Date | Topic | Notes |
| Tue, Feb 1 | Introduction | |
| Th, Feb 3 | The ML pipeline (+a walkthrough) | (New project proposal due by 5pm) |
| Tue, Feb 8 | ML pipeline walkthrough + Problem formulation | |
| Th, Feb 10 | Impact of Systemic Racism (Class discussion) | Watching Assignment: Are We Automating Racism? (Glad You Asked S2 E2) Does My Neighborhood Determine My Future? (Glad You Asked S2 E3) Is Meritocracy a Myth? (Glad You Asked S2 E4) (Project choice due by 5pm) |
| Tue, Feb 15 | Problem dependent steps of ML pipeline | |
| Th, Feb 17 | ML models-I | |
| Tue, Feb 22 | In-class group meeting with Atri | (Progress summary due by 5pm on MONDAY Feb 21) |
| Th, Feb 24 | ML models-II | |
| Tue, Mar 1 | Last steps of the ML pipeline-I | |
| Th, Mar 3 | Initial Project presentations | (Slides due by 5pm on WEDNESDAY, Mar 2) |
| Tue, Mar 8 | Last steps of the ML pipeline-II | |
| Th, Mar 10 | Seeing White (Class discussion) |
Listening Assignment: How Race Was Made (Scene on Radio S2 E2) Listening Assignment: Made in America (Scene on Radio S2 E3) Listening Assignment: Citizen Thind (Scene on Radio S2 E10) |
| Tue, Mar 15 | Impossible Project: WHYs-I | |
| Th, Mar 17 | Impossible Project: WHYs-II | (WHY worksheet due by 5pm on WEDNESDAY, Mar 16) |
| Tue, Mar 22 | No class | Spring recess |
| Th, Mar 24 | No class | Spring recess |
| Tue, Mar 29 | In-class group meeting with Atri | (Progress summary due by 5pm on MONDAY Mar 28) |
| Th, Mar 31 | Fariness via Definitions | |
| Tue, Apr 5 | Getting Real about "Fixing Bias" (Class Discussion) | Watching Assignment: The Root Of Algorithmic Bias And How To Deal With It |
| Th, Apr 7 | Mid Project presentations | (Slides due by 5pm on WEDNESDAY, Apr 6) |
| Tue, Apr 12 | Taking Society into Account-I | |
| Th, Apr 14 | Sociotechnical Systems (Class Discussion) | Reading Assignment: Fairness and Abstraction in Sociotechnical Systems |
| Tue, Apr 19 | Taking Society into Account-II | |
| Th, Apr 21 | Feedback Loop and ML Law, Discrimination and ML (Class Discussion) | Reading Assignment: Notes on Law, Discrimination and ML |
| Tue, Apr 26 | ML and News | Guest lecturer: Kenny Joseph |
| Th, Apr 28 | In-class group meeting with Atri | (Progress summary due by 5pm on WEDNESDAY Apr 27) |
| Tue, May 3 | Impossible Project: HOWs-I | |
| Th, May 5 | The Validity of the COMPASS Questionnaire and Recidivism Score: An Intersectional Approach | Guest lecturer: Ewa Ziarek |
| Tue, May 10 | Impossible Project: HOWs-II | (HOW worksheet due by 5pm on MONDAY, May 9) |
| Th, May 12 | Impossible Project: The next steps | (Next steps summary document due by 5pm on WEDNESDAY, May 11) (Written Project Report due by 5pm ON MAY 13) |
| Tue, May 17 | Final Project presentations | (8:30-11am in Davis 101 (usual classroom)) (Slides due by 5pm on MONDAY, May 16) (Survey due by 5pm on TUESDAY, May 17) |