Distinguished Lecture

Thursday, November 9, 2017 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm in Uris 326
Cognition & Decision Seminar Series: Rava Azeredo da Silveira

Title: Various approaches to online inference — human behavior and theoretical models

Abstract:

Columbia University

Department of Anthropology together with The Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP)

Cordially invite you to attend a

FRANZ  BOAS SEMINAR

with

Summary: “What happens to development projects when international capital and experts have left the building? In 1964, construction began on the Upper Krishna Project, an irrigation works in the Indian state of Karnataka; fifty years and several highly-publicized rounds of World Bank funding later, the project’s main dam collapsed, sending six billion cubic feet of water rushing through in its wake. Examining the rise and demise of the Upper Krishna Project provides insight into the dynamics of deindustrialization and infrastructural decay across the former colonial periphery.”

The Data, Ethics, and Decision Making Speaker Series presents Dr. Jeannette Wing, the new director of Columbia’s Data Science Institute, on "Using Data for Good: What does it mean?". Professor. Wing will be laying out her vision for the institute, which will focus on her desire to think seriously about the definition and practice of using data for good.

Wine and cheese will be served following the talk.

Speaker Biography