CSE 440/441/540 Spring 2023 Schedule
Spring 2023 schedule for the ML and Society course. Rage Against the Machine Schedule .
Future Lectures
The topics for lectures in the future are tentative and subject to change.
Legend
Combined class with Rage Against the Machine (in the usual class room).
Lecture slides in PDF format.
Lecture slides in PPTX format.
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.
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| Mon, Jan 30 | Introduction (Society+ML) | (Course pre-survey due by 5pm) Homework Reading: Buffalo Shooting Online Platform Investigative report (Homework out) |
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| Wed, Feb 1 | Introduction to the Impossible Project
Collaboration norms and bonding exercise |
Combined class |
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| Fri, Feb 3 | (Homeworks due at 5pm) | ||
| Mon, Feb 6 | Axioms, White Supremacy and Buffalo (Class discussion) | Reading Assignment: Buffalo Blizzard Fuels Racial and Class Divides in Polarized City Reading Assignment: The Buffalo Shooting Exposes how History Shapes the Present Watching Assignment: The New Jim Code: Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society (Discussion Summary due by 5pm on SUNDAY, Feb 5) |
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| Wed, Feb 8 | Race, Technology, History, Buffalo Shooting |
Combined class (Project groups assigned) |
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| Mon, Feb 13 | Racism and White Supremacy (Class Discussion) |
Listening Assignment: How Race Was Made (Scene on Radio S2 E2) Listening Assignment: Citizen Thind (Scene on Radio S2 E10) Reading Assignment: Let’s talk about racism | Colour bias in India is colonial, not traditional (Discussion Summary due by 5pm on SUNDAY, Feb 12) |
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| Wed, Feb 15 | ML pipeline -I (+a walkthrough) | ||
| Fri, Feb 17 | (Finish whole group meeting #1 by this day) | ||
| Mon, Feb 20 |
ML pipeline -II In-class group meeting with Kenny+Atri | (Progress summary due by 5pm on SUNDAY Feb 19) | |
| Wed, Feb 22 | ML pipeline- III (Last steps of the ML pipeline) | ||
| Mon, Feb 27 | ML pipeline- IV | ||
| Wed, Mar 1 | Fariness via Definitions
Getting Real about "Fixing Bias" (Class Discussion) |
Watching Assignment: The Root Of Algorithmic Bias And How To Deal With It (Discussion Summary due by 5pm on TUESDAY, Feb 28) |
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| Fri, Mar 3 | (Finish whole group meeting #2 by this day) | ||
| Mon, Mar 6 | Measuring White Supremacy | (Slides due by 5pm on SUNDAY, Mar 5) | |
| Wed, Mar 8 | Initial Project presentations (Problem Ideas) |
Combined class
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| Mon, Mar 13 | Participatory Design | Combined classGuest speaker(s): Seventy Hall and Connor Wurst |
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| Wed, Mar 15 | Notebooks for all |
Combined class
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| Mon, Mar 20 | No class | Spring recess | |
| Wed, Mar 22 | No class | Spring recess | |
| Mon, Mar 27 | Notebook 1: Audit and Social Media | ||
| Wed, Mar 29 | Cost of Building ML and What Can You do? (Class Discussion) |
Reading Assignment: OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic Reading Assignment: Directions for Future Work: From #TechWontBuildIt to #DesignJustice (Discussion Summary due by 5pm on TUESDAY, Mar 28) |
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| Fri, Mar 31 | (Finish whole group meeting #3 by this day) | ||
| Mon, Apr 3 | NLP and Social Media (Class Discussion) |
Reading Assignment: A Weakly Supervised Classifier and Dataset of White Supremacist Language (Distributed on Piazza) (Discussion Summary due by 5pm on SUNDAY, Apr 2) |
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| Wed, Apr 5 | Notebook 2: NLP In-class group meeting with Kenny+Atri | (Progress summary due by 5pm on TUESDAY, Apr 4) | |
| Mon, Apr 10 | Causal Inference | ||
| Wed, Apr 12 | In class meeting with Dr. Muller | ||
| Mon, Apr 17 | The Power of Black Love and Futures Dreaming | Guest Speaker: Phylicia Brown (Black Love Resists in the Rust )Combined Class |
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| Wed, Apr 19 | De-brief on Phylicia Brown's talk | ||
| Fri, Apr 21 | (Finish whole group meeting #4 by this day) | ||
| Mon, Apr 24 | Mid Project presentations | (Slides due by 5pm on SUNDAY, Apr 23) | |
| Wed, Apr 26 | Tools conversaton- I |
Combined Class
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| Mon, May 1 | White Supremacy and the Sociotechnical System of Child Welfare |
Combined class |
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| Wed, May 3 | Presentation rehersal | Combined class
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| Mon, May 8 | Final Project presentations (in O'BRIAN 25) |
Combined class (note not the usual classroom)(Video due by 5pm on FRIDAY, May 5) (Slides due by 5pm on SUNDAY, May 7) |
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| Wed, May 10 | Conclusion | ||
| Sun, May 14 |
(Written Project Report due by 5pm) (Course post-survey due by 5pm) (Project peer survey due by 5pm) |