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<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">Dear all,<br></span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">Hope you are keeping safe and well. <br></span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></p>
<p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-m_-1984663880452750483gmail-m_5243073588107268032gmail-m_-7706835462136169776gmail-docs-internal-guid-925663fc-7fff-f957-dc0b-4afb4cc4868c">We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the 2021 </span>ACM
conference
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-m_-1984663880452750483gmail-m_5243073588107268032gmail-m_-7706835462136169776gmail-docs-internal-guid-9e3def86-7fff-059e-a4bb-cb30252b6529">on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency</span>
-- FAccT (formerly known as ACM FAT*) is now open. We welcome scholarship in dialogue with fairness,
accountability, and transparency in computational systems, including
critical approaches that investigate core assumptions and propose
alternative designs, practices, and policies. <br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">
This year’s conference
will take place in the context of a worldwide reckoning with racism and
other forms of injustice, in society generally and within the field of
computing in particular. Such questions are not only a matter of
personal and professional concern, but also a perennial focus of FAccT
scholarship. <strong>In this light, we especially welcome attention to
insufficiently addressed issues in computing</strong> such as: How do algorithmic
systems develop in relation to racism and anti-blackness? How should the
field address the problems and opportunities of intersectional
perspectives on fairness? What kinds of marginalization are relevant to
the concerns of ACM FAccT? How can perspectives and tools from
gender/LGBTQ studies, postcolonial studies, indigenous studies, racial
and ethnic studies, migration studies, work on disability and other
relevant domains inform a broad perspective on how to frame and advance
social justice in relation to design of computational systems?
</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">
</span></span></p></span></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Submissions might include (but not limited to) the following areas:</span></span><br></span></span></p><ul><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Algorithm Development</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Fairness; Interpretable and explainable models; Data collection and curation</span></span><br></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Data and Algorithm Evaluation</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Metrics; Audits; Evaluations<br></span></span></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Applications</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> NLP; Computer vision; Search engines; Recommender systems; Programming languages; Databases</span></span><br></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Human Factors</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Human-computer
interaction; Humans-in-the-loop; Information visualization; UX design;
Community or participatory-research design</span></span><br></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Privacy and Security</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Formal approaches; Privacy-preserving models; Usable privacy and security</span></span><br></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Law and Policy</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Organizational
governance; Data protection; Non-discrimination; Codes of ethics;
Models from historically marginalized perspectives (</span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Global Southern, feminist, communitarian, or Indigenous perspectives)</span></span><br></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Humanistic theory and critique</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Interrogating foundational concepts; Bridging critical concepts across fields; Philosophical, moral and ethical analysis</span></span><br></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Social and organizational processes</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Algorithms
in organizations and institutions; Social, cultural, and historical
shaping of algorithmic phenomena; algorithmic impacts on social
phenomena</span></span><br></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Community-based approaches</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Participatory algorithm design; Community designed and maintained systems; Activism-driven technological change</span></span><br></span></span></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="background-color:transparent"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt">Education</span></b><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> </span><i><span style="font-size:10.5pt">e.g.</span></i><span style="font-size:10.5pt"> Pedagogical approaches, proposals, and experiences in areas of relevance to FAccT</span></span></span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">
</span></span><span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">We
welcome submissions on these topics from a broad set of expertise from a
wide variety of disciplines, including computer science, statistics,
the humanities, and law. More details can be found here: </span></span><a href="https://facctconference.org/2021/cfp.html" target="_blank">https://facctconference.org/2021/cfp.html</a><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">Paper pre-registration: 30 September 2020</span></span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">Paper submission: 7 October 2020</span></span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">Notifications: 11 December 2020</span></span><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">Conference: early March 2021</span></span><br></p><div><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">All deadlines are at 11:59 PM anywhere on earth (AoE) on the given date.</span></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">Questions? Contact the Program Co-chairs: <a href="mailto:program-chairs@facctconference.org" target="_blank">program-chairs@facctconference.org</a>. And stay tuned for updates by following @facctconference on Twitter.</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap" id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-02491fee-7fff-70f1-624a-66841fe27df7">Please forward this call to other people or groups you think may be interested.</span>
</span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">Best wishes,</span></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="background-color:transparent"><span style="font-size:11pt">Abeba</span></span></p></span></span></span></span></span></div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Cognitive Science Ph.D. candidate <br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Complex Software Lab, <br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small">Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre <br></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">School of Computer Science and Informatics </font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><font size="2">University College Dublin, Ireland </font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><a href="https://abebabirhane.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">https://abebabirhane.wordpress.com/</a><br></span><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">t: @Abebab <br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">(she/her) </span><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>