{"id":287512,"date":"2017-12-14T15:43:45","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T20:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/?p=287512"},"modified":"2017-12-14T15:43:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T20:43:45","slug":"goergen-institute-distinguished-speaker-urges-data-for-good-287512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/goergen-institute-distinguished-speaker-urges-data-for-good-287512\/","title":{"rendered":"Goergen Institute Distinguished Speaker urges \u2018data for good\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people think of data science in terms of analysis of datasets. But as Jeannette Wing, the new director of data science at Columbia University, stressed to an audience at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sas.rochester.edu\/dsc\/\">University of Rochester\u2019s Goergen Institute for Data Science<\/a> recently, data science entails a lot more than that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we are training data scientists of the future, it\u2019s not just the analysis we have to be concerned with,\u201d Wing said. \u201cIt\u2019s also all the steps that come before and, just as importantly, what comes after.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wing, a guest as part of the institute\u2019s Distinguished Speaker Series, addressed the responsible use of data in her talk, \u201cData for Good,\u201d delivered in the Wegmans Hall auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>She suggested that the responsible use of data should have two main thrusts:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Addressing problems that will really benefit society. Energy, climate change, health care, and education are among the \u201csocietal grand challenges where we need multiple disciplines to come together,\u201d Wing said. \u201cData science is a part of that.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Thinking about the fair and ethical use of data \u201cfrom the beginning, as you define the technology, not after you deploy it,\u201d Wing said. \u201cThis is something that I think computer scientists and technology people tend to not pay enough attention to.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wing was appointed professor of computer science and the Avanessians Director of the Data Science Institute at Columbia earlier this year. From 2013 to 2017, she was a corporate vice president at Microsoft\u00a0Research.\u00a0She twice served as the head of the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University, and from 2007 to 2010 was the assistant director of the Computer and Information Science and\u00a0Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation.\u00a0Wing holds bachelor\u2019s, master\u2019s, and doctoral degrees in computer science from MIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many people think of data science in terms of analysis of datasets. 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