Opening of SFI MediaFutures
We invite you to the digital opening of SFI MediaFutures - Research centre for responsible media technology and innovation, Tuesday 2nd of February 14.00-15.30 CET.
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Together with 13 other R&D partners from the media and tech industry and the academic world听we are creating the first research centre in Norway developing responsible media technology, and everyone is welcome to the digital opening of the centre.
The centre's听main goal is to generate innovation and value creation for the Norwegian news media and media technology industry through long-term research on responsible media technologies, and we focus on听advanced new media technology for responsible and effective media user engagement, media content production & analysis, media content interaction and accessibility.听MediaFutures will also听research new methods and metrics for precise audience understanding, for example听AI technology to reveal fake news or filter bubbles.
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Programme
| 1400 | Welcome | by Centre Director Christoph Trattner |
| 1405 | Opening remarks |
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| 1415 | Video greetings听from research partners | |
| 1420 | Panel conversation | Moderator: Christoph Trattner,听Centre Director,听MediaFutures,听幸运飞艇计划听 In the panel:
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| 1440 | Keynote:听Sinan Aral | is a Global Authority on Business Analytics; Award-winning Researcher; Entrepreneur and听Venture Capitalist; Director of 鈥檚 Initiative on the and a听founding partner at Manifest Capital. He is a managerial economist and econometrician by training whose听expertise spans social networks, causal inference, the design and analysis of large-scale digital experiments,听machine learning, predictive听modeling, natural language processing, AI, big data, marketing, IT, social听commerce, ecommerce,听behavior听change and economic productivity. He earned his PhD at MIT and听completed his听Master鈥檚听degrees at the London School of Economics and at Harvard.听 |
| 1500 | Video greetings听from industry partners | |
| 1505 | Keynote:听Ricardo Baeza-Yates | is currently a Research Professor at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University (half-time)". Between 2016 and 2020 he was CTO of听, a search technology company based in California. Previously, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs. He is part-time professor at 听the听听and 听in Barcelona, Spain, and听an adjunct professor at the CS department of the University of Waterloo, Canada His research interests includes algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web search and data mining, and data science and visualization. He is ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow. In his presentation, titled听Bias on Search and Recommender Systems,听he covers all biases that affect search and recommender systems. They include biases on the data, the algorithms as well as the user interaction, in particular the ones related to relevance feedback loops (e.g., ranking and personalization).听 In each case he covers the main concepts and when known, the techniques to ameliorate them, as well as biases that might be product of the evaluation methods used. This presentation is partially based on Bias on the Web, Communications of ACM, June 2018. |
| 1525 | End remark | by Centre Director Christoph Trattner |
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