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Algorithmic bias: Where it comes from and what to do about it

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Dr. Ajunwa is a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and an incoming Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at Cornell’s ILR School. She holds a doctorate from Columbia University and was previously a practicing attorney. She has published extensively on issues arising in the workplace. Her most recent paper on workplace wellness programs was published by the Harvard Business Review. Her forthcoming article on privacy and discrimination issues regarding the use of big data in the workplace, "Limitless Worker Surveillance," is forthcoming from the California Law Review and was endorsed by the NY Times Editorial Board. Her opinions and commentary on big data issues have been featured in the NY Times, the Guardian, CNN, Bloomberg, and other major media outlets. Her forthcoming book, "The Quantified Worker" will be published by the Cambridge University Press.

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Verifying software freedom with reproducible builds +You, too, can write reproducible software!

Vagrant Cascadian is a free software developer involved in the the Debian project, the Linux Terminal Server Project (LTSP), and as a system administrator for an ARM build farm for Reproducible Builds. You can find Vagrant on social networks such as the OpenPGP web of trust and the Debian Bug Tracking system!

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Remy DeCausemaker is a Hackademic who studies communities of contributors to help them work together to use their powers for good. He has helped see through a number of firsts for the Free Software Movement: the first Academic Minor in Free/Open Source Software and Free Culture at a university in the United States at RIT, the first Community Action & Impact Lead for the Fedora Linux distro, and most recently, the first FOSS Community Manager for a Presidential Campaign or US National Political Party. He's a career civic hacker who fights for the users, and wears the suit so hackers don't have to.

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Máirín Duffy learned the downside of proprietary software before her career even started: student projects she'd completed her freshman year of college were bitrot by her senior year. She is now a passionate advocate for the use of free software, particularly creative software like Gimp and Inkscape. Máirín uses free software exclusively for her award-winning design work at Red Hat and has taught numerous workshops to share her knowledge at local schools, tech conferences, and community organizations. She is a principal interaction designer at Red Hat's Boston area office and works on the Fedora project.

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Financial activist, digital rights advocate and subversive +technologist. Bitcoin/blockchain payments technology expert and critic +from the non-right-wing minority within the crypto +community. B.Sci. in Theoretical Mathematics. National Science +Foundation merit scholar.

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Algorithmic bias: Where it comes from and what to do about it

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Running a TV channel with free software

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AJ Jordan is an 18-year-old programmer and system administrator from +Seattle, WA. He's been contributing to free software for several years +and in particular is the primary maintainer of the pump.io reference +implementation, as well as a comaintainer of prism-break.org. He +self-hosts almost every internet service he uses, and is passionate +about security, privacy, good UX, and freedom. In his spare time he +enjoys photography and poetry. He is currently living in New York +City attending the Recurse Center over his gap +year before attending college in the fall.

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Bassam is a 3D generalist filmmaker whose 2006 short, Elephants Dream, +was the first ‘open movie’. It established the viability of libre +tools in a production environment and set precedent by offering its +source data under a permissive license for learning, remixing and +re-use. Bassam is continuing to pursue a model of production that +invests in commonwealth. They teach, write and lecture around the +world on open production and free software technique. Raised in +Damascus, Bassam trained in the United States as an electrical and +software engineer.

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Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School and founder of the Software Freedom Law Center. Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free software developers. He earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School since 1987 and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia. In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society. Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Supreme Court.

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Patents, copyrights and trademark rights have been growing and +expanding in scope and application. In most cases, it seems the +original intent of spurring innovation or protecting creators has +gotten a bit lost, if not completely inverted. Certainly, there must +be a way to support inventors without enabling predators and protect +creators without empowering trolls. We need to slay our own monsters, +instead of leaving them for the next generation.

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If you've ever wondered why a smell can be trademarked or why math +can, no... can't, well... maybe gets patented, then this talk is for +you. The kids of tomorrow might not want to sample our music or work +with our legacy codebases, but they won't thank us for taking the +option off the table. There are many entities that are highly invested +in endless copyright, creative trademark enforcement or patent +maximalism, but what do they want? More importantly, how can they be +stopped? It won't be easy, but there are some things you can do.

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FSF Latin America board member. LibrePlanet São Paulo activist. GNU +speaker. Free Software evangelist. Maintainer of GNU Linux-libre, and +co-maintainer of the GNU Compiler Collection, GNU binutils and GNU +libc. GNU tools engineer at Red Hat Brasil.

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