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X-WR-CALNAME:STS Colloquium with Moon Duchin
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DESCRIPTION:The Dream of the Race-Blind Algorithm\n\nRedistricting -- drawi
 ng boundaries for Congressional and other electoral districts -- has long 
 been an area where the U.S. Supreme Court has worked to develop a jurispru
 dence that centers "race-blind" comparisons.  Alongside employment and col
 lege admissions\, redistricting has produced complicated and consequential
  decisions that hinge on who can take what information "into account" in t
 heir work.  Since at least 1982\, authors thinking about how to use the Vo
 ting Rights Act have wondered if computers can deliver the right kind of b
 lindness.  I'll tell the story of the last decade of Supreme Court struggl
 es with the promise and perils of algorithms in redistricting.  \n\nMoon D
 uchin is a professor of Math and Public Policy at Cornell\, and she runs t
 he Data and Democracy Lab in the Brooks School.  She's worked as an expert
  witness in numerous redistricting cases in the last census cycle.  She lo
 ves to think about how ideas and artifacts from math and computing operate
  persuasively in public opinion and in courts of law.  Duchin was one of t
 he founders of the STS major at Tufts before moving to Cornell.
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SUMMARY:STS Colloquium with Moon Duchin
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 hin
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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