📢 We are doing another round of DEI Scholars! We invite proposals of up to $15,000 (USD) for seed grants to help develop a positive alternative vision for the future of algorithmic systems and the research community studying them. Apply by **May 17**!
📢IT'S OFFICIAL!
🇧🇷The ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
#FAccT2024
will be held Monday, June 3rd through Thursday, June 6th, 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!
📅Stay tuned for the CFP
We are beginning preparations for
#FAccT2022
— we are aiming to have it as a hybrid (virtual and face-to-face) conference in South Korea in June 2022, with a possible submission deadline in November 2021. Please stay tuned for more.
The ACM Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT) 2021 conference CFP is finally here! 🥳🥳🥳
We welcome submissions from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, statistics, the humanities, and law.
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We're so excited about next year's
#FAccT23
Conference! Taking place in Chicago, in mid June, the General Chairs are Aziz Huq and Chenhao Tan of U Chicago, and Christina Harrington and Sarah Fox of CMU.
@adapperprof
@ChenhaoTan
For updates see
Important update: ACM FAccT 2021 will take place online. Paper submission + review timelines will be later than prior years (most likely: late September to mid December). The full statement has been posted to the conference website: CFP coming soon!
The new acronym for FAT* is here! Starting with the 2021 conference, we’ll be ACM FAccT for ‘Fairness, ACCountability, and Transparency’
#FAT2020
#FAccT2021
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Thank you for your patience as we plan for
#FAccT2022
in unprecedented circumstances. We're happy to share that the conference will take place, in-person (Covid-Willing) and virtually, in the week of June 20, 2022.
🚨🚨Essential information! Please share it as widely as possible.
📯The FAccT'24 Deadline has been updated by 4 days:
New abstract deadline: January 15
New paper deadline: January 22
Reviews notification/rebuttal starts: March 18
Final decisions: March 29
Call for Proposals for this year's conference is out!🥳🥳🥳
Final submissions will be due on December 3, 2021.
Details here:
Excited to see what the community has to say about the following topics ⬇️⬇️⬇️
The full paper deadline has now passed, and FAT*2020 has received *291 papers* across all tracks: a whole 80% more than were reviewed last year!
Thank you to all authors, and to those volunteering their time for the forthcoming review process: your labour makes this happen!
✈️ We are committed to ensuring that no-one will be unable to present their work at the in-person conference due to resource constraints, so there will be a substantial TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIP FUND available to support in-person attendance in Seoul! ✈️
Thank you to our brilliant
#FAccT23
program chairs! Lilian Edwards (Newcastle), Jessica Hullman (Northwestern), Atoosa Kasirzadeh (Edinburgh) and Berk Ustun (UCSD). CFP out soon, submission deadline expected late Jan.
@Dr_Atoosa
@berkustun
@lilianedwards
@JessicaHullman
To all the PhD students and researchers working on fairness, accountability and transparency (or related topics) in relation to socio-technical systems: ACM FAccT 2023 Doctoral Colloquium Call for Applications is out:
The deadline is February 24, 2023 AoE
Due to recent disruptions & challenges arising in light of the evolving COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided to postpone our PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE to Friday Janurary 21, 2022! 🗓️📢✍️ Updates to our website () will be made shortly.
Important conference links:
- livestream (Tue onwards): (videos uploaded later)
- each session has an Etherpad where Qs for speakers will be captured: (please contribute responsibly and respectfully!)
- conference hashtag:
#FAT2020
The FAccT Executive Committee and General Chairs for 2023 stand in solidarity with members of our community affected by the violent repression in Iran, as well as members affected by the humanitarian crisis in Tigray. Read our statement here:
The digital world is even more important than it was in January. Ensuring it works for everyone has never been more critical.
ACM FAccT (formerly FAT*) 2020 videos now online: keynotes, tutorials, papers. Hopefully the ideas in it can be of modest help.
This year we received an overwhelming number of high quality papers — thank you all who submitted! The list of accepted papers can be found here
We are extremely grateful to the reviewers for their hard work during this extra-challenging time.
On the topic of the acronym, FAT*:
The
@fatconference
Steering Committee took vote and decided to change the name, as was determined not in line with strategic goals.
Discussions are currently underway, and more news very soon.
#FAT2019
The ACM FAT* 2020 Call for Papers is out!
Tracks in CompSci, Law, Social Sciences & Humanities, Practice & Experience, and Education, with archival & non-archival options to suit all disciplines.
Submission DL: 22 Aug (pre-register abstracts by 15 Aug)
Thank you! It’s so important to us (and really basic logic, as it lets us attract and retain amazing parents in our conversations that are not properly accommodated elsewhere)
#FAT2020
We are thrilled to announce this year's FAccT conference will take place at the venue Rio Othon Palace Hotel, located at Avenida Atlântica, 3264 on the beautiful Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro. Hope to see you there! 🇧🇷
The full ACM FAT* 2020 Call for Papers is out!
5 Tracks:
- CompSci
- Law
- Social Sciences & Humanities
- Practice & Experience
- Education
Submission deadline: 22 Aug (pre-register abstracts by 15 Aug)
🥳🥳🥳ANNOUNCEMENT 🥳🥳🥳
The ACM FAccT 2021 Best Paper award goes to:
🎖️Allocating Opportunities in a Dynamic Model of Intergenerational Mobility by Hoda Heidari and Jon Kleinberg
#facct21
#facct2021
Registration is now **OPEN** for ACM FAccT 2021! The conference will be held March 3-10.
Early bird pricing is available through February 18. 🤩
Please check our website for details on volunteer positions, Internet Bandwidth & Carer grants and more!
📢 Call for signature! The FAccT community is announcing a statement on AI harms and policy. This statement asserts our community’s years of empirical work as a resource for public discussions and policy reponses. Sign here:
Thanks to everyone who attended, presented at, and organized
#FAccT2023
! We had an incredible week of discussions and learning about ethics, policy, and civil society in the context of AI and technology. Still feel passionate? Here's how you can get involved: (1/4)
The 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, & Transparency (FAccT, fka FAT*) paper submission is 2 weeks away (7 Oct)!
We invite work from a wide variety of disciplines, including CS, statistics, law, social sciences, the humanities, & education.
Announcing the following UPDATE:
*The page limit this year is 12-15 pages, not 8-10!*
Looking forward to reading your submissions 🎉
Further details of the Facct 2022 CFP can be found here:
The ACM FAccT submission deadline is one month away!
We invite work around fairness, accountability, & transparency in AI systems, including critical approaches that investigate core assumptions & propose alternative designs, practices, & policies.
We're thrilled to share this year's CRAFT to critique and reflect on power in tech. Our phenomenal lineup anchors
#facct2023
in the real-world impacts of AI: on communities, social services, the justice system, transnationally & beyond -
@megyoung0
@jennifer_e_lee
@hannahsassaman
All papers available at . For non academics/ACM members, if you go through the links on that page, you'll get open access in the ACM Digital Library.
#FAT2019
Two major
#FAccT
✨deadlines✨ coming up:
(1) Final submission deadline for 📜 PAPERS: Jan 14 ()
(2) Proposal deadline for all other initiatives (🛠️ CRAFT, 💯 Tutorials, 📢 Community Keynotes, 🎓 DEI scholars, 🤖 Doctoral Colloquium): Jan 28
Proceedings for FAT* is ready, and we have a full program, 450 registered participants, and many more on a waiting list! See our press release for more details, as well as an announcement of the best paper awards.
Distinguished Student Papers 2022
#FAccT22
:
- Kristen Scott, Sonja Mei Wang, Milagros Miceli, Pieter Delobelle, Karolina Sztandar-Sztanderska and Bettina Berendt, Algorithmic Tools in Public Employment Services: Towards a Jobseeker-Centric Perspective
More than 100 people received a fee waiver to attend this year's conference, and 89 people received a travel grant — a majority of applicants — with the average grant being around $1000.
STARTING NOW.
@alexhanna
joins folks from
@turkopticon
workers Brook Hansen, Krystal Kauffman, and Krista Pawloski to discuss “The Humans Behind the Intelligence: Speaking with Data Workers”. This community keynote is not to be missed!
Award annoucement
#FAT2019
!
🏅Best Technical + Interdisciplinary Paper🏅
Disparate Interactions: An Algorithm-in-the-Loop Analysis of Fairness in Risk Assessments. (
@benzevgreen
& Yiling Chen)
Presented/livestreamed at Jan 31, 3:20PM
Paper:
🪅NOW LIVE!🪅
Registration for FAccT 2024 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is online! Early Bird rates til April 29! 🐣🌷
🚀
Thank you to our registration chairs
@YuexingHao
and Sonia Teixeira
FAT* 2019 will introduce a Doctoral Consortium, organized by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (
@geomblog
) and Maarten de Rijke (
@mdr
). Stay tuned for details. This will be a great opportunity to get expert input on your dissertation!
Our 1st keynote address is by
@YESHICAN
, the Founder & Executive Director of
@Data4BlackLives
! Milner calls on researchers to go beyond fairness, accountability & transparency & to demand justice, power & self-determination in the fight to make data as a tool for social change.
Registration for Facct is open!!
We have both in-person and online options:
If you have any financial difficulties, generous funding options are available:
We have an incredible program awaiting!
Can’t wait to see you there!
Best non-CS track paper: What does it mean to ‘solve’ the problem of discrimination in hiring? Javier Sánchez-Monedero,
@LinaDencik
and
@lilianedwards
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Calling all experienced reviewers! This year we're opening up self-nominations for reviewing
#FAccT2023
. Sign up now and help shape the future of the field!
ACM FAccT 2021 was slated to take place in Toronto, Canada. However, due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, it will be held fully online from March 3 — 10, 2021. Registration is now open and Early Bird rate is available until February 18th.
#facct21
Moderator
@wes_deng
currently leading an important panel about trust, accountability, and asymmetric power at the “User Engagement in Algorithm Testing and Auditing: Exploring Opportunities and Tensions between Practitioners and End Users”
Distinguished Student Papers 2022
#FAccT22
:
- H. Suresh, R. Movva, A. Lee Dogan, R. Bhargava, I. Cruxen, A. Martinez Cuba, G. Taurino, W. So, C. D’Ignazio, Towards Intersectional Feminist and Participatory ML: A Case Study in Supporting Feminicide Counterdata Collection
CRAFT (Critiquing & Rethinking Accountability, Fairness and Transparency) is soliciting proposals (submit by Jan 28, 2022)! Possible formats: Lightning Talk/Panel/Poster/Demo Session/Unconference/Interactive Workshop/Art Exhibit/Research Panel and more!
📢Announcing our phenomenal keynote speakers
#FAccT2023
! Prof. Alondra Nelson (
@alondra
) from
@the_IAS
will give the first keynote on June 12. Register now:
ACM
#FAccT2021
is now open to submission.
We solicit work from a wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, statistics, law, social sciences, the humanities & education. Submissions on fairness, accountability & transparency are all welcome.
Algorithmic Bias and Fairness in Search and Recommendation -- a special issue of Information Processing and Management, due 11/15! Edited by
@ludovicoboratto
@StefanoFaralli
@mirkomarras
Giovanni Stilo
Quick links for those at
#FAT2019
here in Atlanta and those watching our free livestreams:
Program (with open access links to papers):
Livestreams:
29th Tutorials // 30–31st General Session
We are very honored to present this year's Community Keynote:
Trina Reynolds-Tyler of Invisible Institute & Tarak Shah of Human Rights Data Analysis Group
@tarakc02
@hrdag
@invinst
share a community-collaboration on ML for police accountability
#facct2023
ACM
#FAccT2021
will be held March 3-10!
Make sure you register by February 18th to catch the "Early Bird" rate.
Check our website for details on volunteer positions, Internet Bandwidth, Carer grants, and more!
We're not liveweeting the many many rapid-fire talks this year — instead you can
- 🎥 head to the livestream
- ¿? ask questions at the Etherpad(s)
- see tweets at
#FAT2020
Save the date! ACM FAT* 2019 will be January 29-31 in Atlanta, GA. Registration will open in mid-September.
And happy writing to those of you submitting a paper this week! Manuscripts due Aug 23.
📯PLEASE SHARE WIDELY📯
FAccT 2024 Doctoral Colloquium Call is online!
Engage with more senior researchers and peers about your dissertation work and career objectives.
⏰ Due April 8
Led by our DC Chairs,
@ShwangsNarayan
@jennifercobbe
@zacharylipton
New FAccT Network event! Beyond Fairness: Towards a Just, Equitable, and Accountable Computer Vision
@cvpr
2021; submissions due 3/26! organized by
@cephaloponderer
@timnitGebru
Don't forget the ACM FAccT 2021 paper pre-registration closes in 3 days. Make sure you pre-register your paper by the 30th of September 2020.
We are looking forward to all your submissions and deadline for paper submission is the 7th of October 2020.
#facct2021
ACM FAccT welcomes applications for the inaugural FAcct Diversity and Inclusion (DEI) Scholarships!
The program provides funding for scholars to conduct research that deepens our collective understanding of and advances DEI initiatives.
Consider applying!