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Practical tips for productivity & wellbeing: Lessons from COVID-19 around time management, productivity, and ‘busyness’
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Panel: Building for societal resilience
We are learning that building for societal resilience requires change in how we pursue research and engineering. This panel discusses what we have learned during the COVID response: how existing projects adapted to new and…
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Opening remarks: Tech for resilient communities
This track will examine processes and techniques for developing technology in conjunction with community partners, following a social science-driven methodology which can lead to more effective, inclusive innovations with greater benefits at the local level.…
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Panel discussion: Content moderation beyond the ban: Reducing borderline, toxic, misleading, and low-quality content
Public debate about content moderation focuses almost exclusively on removal, such as what is deleted and who is suspended. But what about content that is identified as “borderline,” which almost—but not quite—violates the guidelines? Faced…
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Panel: Just tech: Bringing computer science, communities, and the social sciences together to build societal resilience
Technology is meant to make life easier, help us move faster, and create efficiencies that amplify our impact. In the world of community health, this impact can mean life or death. As we strive to…
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Closing Remarks: Tech for resilient communities
This track will examine processes and techniques for developing technology in conjunction with community partners, following a social science-driven methodology which can lead to more effective, inclusive innovations with greater benefits at the local level.…
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Plenary: Statistical Imaginaries: An Ode to Responsible Data Science
Data science is increasingly being used to ground decision-making in both industry and public life. As data become significant and powerful, people who rely on those data come to expect certain things from the data.…
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Live Q&A and Closing Remarks: New future of work
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Panel: Community-driven research: Emerging scholar spotlight
This panel will spotlight emerging scholars with ties to Microsoft Research internship and fellowship programs who bring community-driven approaches to other areas of innovation. Featured scholars include Rida Qadri, a grad who looks at collective…
