This is a good one! Mickens is a great thinker and speaker. Listen to
the podcast, but also see the links to his talks below.


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Subject:        [Cleaninsights-announce] Podcast Panel: Prof. James Mickens
and Dr. Gina Helfrich on Ethics in Computer Science
Date:   Thu, 21 May 2020 12:51:24 -0400
From:   Nathan of Guardian <[email protected]>
Organization:   Guardian Project
To:     [email protected]



Our latest podcast panel is up, with so many ways to listen!

* On the web:
https://guardianproject.info/podcast/2020/cleaninsights-ethics-in-compsci.html
* Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/en-garde-the-guardian-project-podcast/id1505562297
* Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UPwBVRZDvv9Ab9Bp73nXD
* Good Ol' RSS: https://guardianproject.info/podcast/podcast.xml

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Nathan (n8fr8) of Guardian Project <https://guardianproject.info> and
Dr. Gina Helfrich of Internews
<https://globaltech.internews.org/our-resources/basics> welcome
Professor James Mickens, of Harvard University’s Computer Science
department, to this third podcast panel of the Clean Insights Symposium
Extraordinaire <https://cleaninsights.org/event>.

Do Deep Fakes matter because they can fulfill childhood dreams of
photorealistic Godzilla or an Avengers movie starring Gandi? Is tracking
the heck out of your users fine, as long as it is you doing the
tracking, or should ethical analytics mean more than self-hosting? How
can we address the often myopic industry and academia to have fewer tech
blind spots? We discuss these things and more!

If you haven’t had the pleasure of hearing Prof. Mickens give a talk,
you have truly missed out on a unique voice of sobriety and hilarity in
the field of Computer Science. In fact, you may just want to just pause
the podcast now, and watch one his talks linked below. From the titles
alone, you can tell you’re in for something special.

* “Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is
Possible?” <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k>
* “My love letter to computer science is very short”
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnBfGCUORK8>
* “Blockchains Are a Bad Idea”
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15RTC22Z2xI>
* “There are No Secrets” <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDwUJa4_IJE>
* “Life As A Developer: My Code Does Not Work Because I Am A Victim Of
Complex Societal Factors…” <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Nj9ZjwOdFQ>


James Mickens, Professor, Authority On All Things

Excellence. Quality. Science. These are just a few of the words that
have been applied to the illustrious research career of James Mickens.
In the span of a few years, James Mickens has made deep, fundamental,
and amazing contributions to various areas of computer science and life.
Widely acknowledged as one of the greatest scholars of his generation,
James Mickens ran out of storage space for his awards in 1992, and he
subsequently purchased a large cave to act as a warehouse/fortress from
which he can defend himself during the inevitable robot war that was
prophesied by the documentary movie “The Matrix.” In his spare time,
James Mickens enjoys life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, often
(but not always) in that order, and usually (almost always) while
listening to Black Sabbath.


Gina Helfrich, Internews

Dr. Gina Helfrich is Program Officer for Global Technology at Internews.
Previously, she served as Director of Communications and Culture at
NumFOCUS, a non-profit that supports better science through open code.
Gina is an accomplished and visionary leader with a track record of
success across a variety of fields, including nonprofits, higher
education, and business. She was co-founder of recruitHER, a women-owned
recruiting & consulting firm committed to making the tech industry more
inclusive and diverse. The brand strategy Gina developed and executed
for recruitHER quickly earned national attention and a list of
high-profile clients including Pandora, GitHub, Pinterest, and
RunKeeper. She earned press features including stories in both Austin
Monthly and Austin Woman magazines, a talk at SXSW, and an interview on
the Stuff Mom Never Told You podcast.


Show Notes and Links

* James Mickens: Professor, Authority On All Things
<https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/>
* Gina Helfrich: Communications, Diversity & Inclusion, Women in Tech
& Business <http://ginahelfrich.com/>
* Clean Insights Symposium Extraordinaire
<https://cleaninsights.org/event>
* Music courtesy of Archive.org: Here Comes The Circus
<http://archive.org/details/HereComesTheCircus>

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