Berkeley Institute for Data Sciences

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor

Date/Time
Thursday
29 Nov 2018
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm

Location
Banatao Auditorium

Event Type
Colloquium

Virginia Eubanks
Associate Professor of Political Science, University at Albany, SUNY

In Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks systematically investigates the impacts of data...

Critical Data Futures: Art, Life and Data in the Metaverse

Date/Time
Friday
18 Mar 2022
12:30 pm - 5:00 pm

Event Type
Special Event

Register here

The unknown potentials of the metaverse and web 3 are both exciting and terrifying. Technologists, innovators and critics have been exploring the implications of a potential shift to decentralized, user-centered 3D experiences, which could eclipse our familiar two-dimensional ways of interfacing with our screens.

Here, urgent questions emerge...