- Who: Professor Geoffrey C. Bowker of the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences and director of the Values in Design Laboratory at the University of California, Irvine. Bowker also co-directs the NSF-funded Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society, and was once a faculty member at the UIUC I-School.
- What: A lecture in the Design Dialogues Speakers Series on big data, and how it’s changed what it means to be human through histories and ethical design issues from past developments
- Where: The auditorium of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), 1205 W. Clark Street, Urbana, IL
- When: 4:00 pm, September 20, 2016
- Why: To try to understand the important role big data plays in your life, and how that role has evolved over time, as well as to hear an interdisciplinary perspective on this issue
