The CSC hosts monthly workshops on computational topics across a variety of disciplines. Currently, all workshops are hybrid, run for 2 hours from 12-2pm ET on Fridays in Milstein 516 and via Zoom. To join us at an upcoming workshop, visit Upcoming Events and register!

As part of the Year of Science at Barnard College, the CSC ran a Diversity in Computing Speaker Series. During the 2021–2022 academic year, we hosted monthly talks with scholars and practitioners in computational fields who explore what DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) looks like in STEM.

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There is an urgent need to more fully consider the ethical and social implications of computing and its applications: for example, in designing addictive social media platforms or in using AI for facial or name recognition, which can lead to housing discrimination, racial biases in job hiring, or restrictions on personal freedoms through public and private surveillance.

To better understand how to counter these biases, this purpose of this series was to rethink STEM disciplines from the inside out. We invited one leader in a STEM field every month to speak about the work they are doing to diversify and broaden inclusion in their fields by either sharing their research, their experiences and initiatives in industry or academia, or their thoughts on how power structures within computing disciplines should be transformed to create more equitable systems.

2021-2022 Speakers:

• Dr. Theodore Kim, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Yale: "Anti-Racist Computer Graphics Research"
• Dr. Casey Fiesler, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder,"Three Lessons Toward Ethical Tech"
• Dr. Jiahao Chen, CTO, Parity AI: "Practicing What You Publish: From Academia to an Anti-Racist AI Startup"
• Saba Gul, Technologist and Entrepreneur: "One-Size-Fails-All: Building Socially Scalable Tech"
• Dr. Talitha Washington, Director of the Atlanta University Center Data Science Initiative and Professor of Mathematics at Clark Atlanta University, "Empowering Data Science for Social Justice"
• CyberCollective, "How Personal Narratives can Fuel the Responsible Tech Movement"
• Matt Mitchell, Ford Foundation and Founder of CryptoHarlem, "Easy Fixes for Algorithmic Bias"

To keep up to date with Diversity in Computing speaker events, check out Upcoming Events.  To watch recordings of past Diversity in Computing events, check out our Youtube channel.

Computing Fellows are undergraduate peer academic leaders who assist in the development and execution of computational projects. Computing Fellows are "attached" to Barnard courses or programs that may or may not have a computational component. Computing Fellows can lead workshops on computational methods or hold one-on-one meetings with students to help them incorporate computing into their projects. For more information about the program please visit our Computing Fellows page.