Dear all,
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<br>Hope you are keeping safe and well.
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<br>We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2021 ACM conference on
<br>*F*airness, *Acc*ountability, and *T*ransparency -- FAccT (formerly known
<br>as ACM FAT*) is now open. We welcome scholarship in dialogue with fairness,
<br>accountability, and transparency in computational systems, including
<br>critical approaches that investigate core assumptions and propose
<br>alternative designs, practices, and policies.
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<br>This year’s conference will take place in the context of a worldwide
<br>reckoning with racism and other forms of injustice, in society generally
<br>and within the field of computing in particular. Such questions are not
<br>only a matter of personal and professional concern, but also a perennial
<br>focus of FAccT scholarship. *In this light, we especially welcome attention
<br>to insufficiently addressed issues in computing* such as: How do
<br>algorithmic systems develop in relation to racism and anti-blackness? How
<br>should the field address the problems and opportunities of intersectional
<br>perspectives on fairness? What kinds of marginalization are relevant to the
<br>concerns of ACM FAccT? How can perspectives and tools from gender/LGBTQ
<br>studies, postcolonial studies, indigenous studies, racial and ethnic
<br>studies, migration studies, work on disability and other relevant domains
<br>inform a broad perspective on how to frame and advance social justice in
<br>relation to design of computational systems?
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<br>Submissions might include (but not limited to) the following areas:
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<br> - *Algorithm Development* *e.g.* Fairness; Interpretable and explainable
<br> models; Data collection and curation
<br> - *Data and Algorithm Evaluation* *e.g.* Metrics; Audits; Evaluations
<br> - *Applications* *e.g.* NLP; Computer vision; Search engines;
<br> Recommender systems; Programming languages; Databases
<br> - *Human Factors* *e.g.* Human-computer interaction; Humans-in-the-loop;
<br> Information visualization; UX design; Community or participatory-research
<br> design
<br> - *Privacy and Security* *e.g.* Formal approaches; Privacy-preserving
<br> models; Usable privacy and security
<br> - *Law and Policy* *e.g.* Organizational governance; Data protection;
<br> Non-discrimination; Codes of ethics; Models from historically marginalized
<br> perspectives (*e.g.* Global Southern, feminist, communitarian, or
<br> Indigenous perspectives)
<br> - *Humanistic theory and critique* *e.g.* Interrogating foundational
<br> concepts; Bridging critical concepts across fields; Philosophical, moral
<br> and ethical analysis
<br> - *Social and organizational processes* *e.g.* Algorithms in
<br> organizations and institutions; Social, cultural, and historical shaping
<br>of
<br> algorithmic phenomena; algorithmic impacts on social phenomena
<br> - *Community-based approaches* *e.g.* Participatory algorithm design;
<br> Community designed and maintained systems; Activism-driven technological
<br> change
<br> - *Education* *e.g.* Pedagogical approaches, proposals, and experiences
<br> in areas of relevance to FAccT
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<br>We welcome submissions on these topics from a broad set of expertise from a
<br>wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, statistics, the
<br>humanities, and law. More details can be found here:
<br>https://facctconference.org/2021/cfp.html
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<br>Paper pre-registration: 30 September 2020
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<br>Paper submission: 7 October 2020
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<br>Notifications: 11 December 2020
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<br>Conference: early March 2021
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<br>All deadlines are at 11:59 PM anywhere on earth (AoE) on the given date.
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<br>Questions? Contact the Program Co-chairs: program-chairs@facctconference.org.
<br>And stay tuned for updates by following @facctconference on Twitter.
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<br>Please forward this call to other people or groups you think may be
<br>interested.
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<br>Best wishes,
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<br>Abeba
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<br>--
<br>Cognitive Science Ph.D. candidate
<br>Complex Software Lab,
<br>Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre
<br>School of Computer Science and Informatics
<br>University College Dublin, Ireland
<br>https://abebabirhane.wordpress.com/
<br>t: @Abebab
<br>(she/her)
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