Name: Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Me
Start: 2019-01-24T18:00:00Z
End: 2019-01-24T20:00:00Z
Location: Informatics Forum, G07

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Me

Edinburgh’s School of Informatics is the largest academic centre of its kind in Europe and the UK’s most successful informatics research institution. We have consistently been a leader in the field since the 1960s, when our first Professor of Computer Science was appointed and the Department of Artificial Intelligence was founded. The Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 ranked us first in the UK for computer science and informatics. We produce more world leading and internationally excellent research in this field than any other UK university. We're also ranked 14th for Computer Science in the THES Rankings by Subject 2018. Our size and strength support unparalleled breadth in our taught courses, which are consistently ranked excellent in external assessments.Our students rate us highly too. Members of staff are proud to have received EUSA Teaching Awards on the basis of student nominations and votes. We provide outstanding facilities. Computer laboratories are available to all Informatics students 24 hours a day. Our city centre premises include both teaching and research centres.We lead the way in an exciting discipline that is central to a new enlightenment in scholarship and learning. Informatics is critical to the development of science, technology, culture and society. Our academics include Fellows of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Academy of Engineering. We boast recent winners of the most prestigious awards in the field, including the Herbrand Award, the Blaise Pascal Medal and the Yangtze River Scholar award.Graduates from our programmes enjoy career success in a wide array of roles that shape our society, from developing the latest mobile technology to creating intelligent infrastructure. Many go on to work as project managers, researchers, software developers and consultants in the commercial sector (at firms such as Google, Amazon, Skyscanner or Adobe) or take up academic posts, often in Russell Group and US research universities such as MIT and Stanford. Some of our graduates have found success through start-up companies.PRIVACY STATEMENTInformation about you: how we use it and with whom we share it.We will use your personal data to allow us to process your registration, communicate with you and obtain your feedback about the event. We are processing the information about you for these purposes because by registering for the conference, you are entering into a contractual agreement for us to do so. In order to facilitate online bookings for our events, we use Eventbrite - a third party service which is not operated by the University of Edinburgh. Details of Eventbrite's privacy policy can be found at:https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/support/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/eventbrite-privacy-policy?lg=en_GBWe will not share information about you with any other third party. We will hold the personal data you provided us for 6 months. We do not use profiling or automated decision-making processes.If you have any questions about the privacy policy for this event, please contact Ms Kasia Kokowska, Communications and Outreach Manager, School of Informatics on kasia.kokowska@ed.ac.ukIf you have queries about the University of Edinburgh's privacy policy go to:https://www.ed.ac.uk/records-management/notice

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First in a series of public discussion about AI, the event will cover issues around data and privacy, focusing on the impact of the Big Data industry on our privacy and society as a whole.
<H3 CLASS="MsoNormal">About the event</H3>
Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other websites, financial services companies and even home utility suppliers (through smart devices) are capable of collating vast amounts of personal data. But do we, the society, know what data they collect and what it is used for? Personal data is a commodity that can be sold and bought and used for marketing purposes, but also to manipulate election outcomes and restrict access to services like healthcare or housing. It has been shown that content customised using this data can be used effectively to influence people’s personal beliefs and choices.
Do you know how your personal data is used? Do you know what control over your personal information you have? Come and find out. 
Panel:
- Lilian Edwards is the Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University. Additionally, she is a member of the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Internet Privacy Research. She is much in demand as an academic speaker on issues of Internet law, intellectual property, and artificial intelligence. She has appeared at the BBC Blue Room roundtable on the future of AI, the New Scientist Live on AI, and several programmes on BBC Radio 4, among others. She is a self-proclaimed “GDPR nerd and total geek.” 
- Kami Vaniea is a Lecturer in Cyber Security and Privacy at the University of Edinburgh's School of Informatics, where she specialises on the human factors involved in security and privacy, and the head of the Technology Usability Lab In Privacy and Security (TULIPS). The goal of her work is to make security and privacy technologies more accessible for a wide range of users and to empower them to easily make good security decisions. She has spoken extensively on ethical and privacy issues in data science. 
- Laura Cram is a professor of European Politics at the University of Edinburgh and the head of the NRLabs Neuropolitics Research lab. In her research, she examines how insights from psychology, information science and cognitive neuroscience can help to explain political behaviour and policy processes, using experimental approaches like fMRI brain scanning, behavioural games, face-emotion coding, eye-tracking, physiological hormone testing and big data analysis. She is a regular media commentator and her group's work has appeared on the BBC Daily Politics Show and as part of the BBC MindGames documentary, among others. 
Followed by a drinks reception.
NB This event might be streamed live, recorded and/or photographed.

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