<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear colleagues and friends,</div><div><br></div><div>I am pleased to announce <a href="https://law.yale.edu/isp/events/data-remakes-world">Data (Re)Makes the World</a>, a conference hosted by the Information Society Project at Yale Law School on March 31st & April 1st, 2023. The conference schedule is provided below. <br></div><div><br></div><div>You can register to attend the conference in person or online till March 30th via the conference webpage. Questions? Please email me. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Hope you can join us! <br></div><div><br></div><div>Best,<br></div><div>Aaron</div><div><br></div><div>


















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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:107%">March 31 &
April 1, 2023<span></span></span></b></p>

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Project, Yale Law School<span></span></span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span>Day 1: Friday, March 31, 2023<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Breakfast & Registration, 8:30 am – 9:00 am</span></u><span><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Opening Remarks, 8:45 am – 9:00 am<span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Conference Convener: Aaron Mendon-Plasek, Yale Law<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Panel 1:<span>  </span>Justice, 9:00 am –
10:40 am<span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Chair: Meg Leta Jones, Georgetown University<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Andrew Meade McGee, Smithsonian Institution, “Quantifying a Rights
Revolution Fifty Years On: Predictive Modeling, Algorithmic Rulemaking, and the
1973 Databank Debates Over Mainframe Computers in Urban Policy and Social
Welfare Policy”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Simone Zhang, Norte Dame, “The Asymmetrical Effects of Pretrial
Risk Assessment Algorithms in the Courtroom”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Katrina Geddes, New York University, “Will you have autonomy in
the Metaverse?”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>A. Feder Cooper (Cornell), Madiha Zahrah Choski (Cornell Tech),
Solon Barocas (Cornell), Christopher De Sa (Cornell), James Grimmelmann
(Cornell Law & Cornell Tech), Siddhartha Sen (Microsoft), “On Machine
Learning Uncertainty, Arbitrariness, and Due Process”<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Coffee Break, 10:40 am – 11:00 am<span></span></span></u></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Panel 2: Trusting Sources, 11:00 am – 12:40 pm<span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Chair: Matthew Jones, Columbia University <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Gabriel Grill, University of Michigan, “Constructing Certainty in
Machine Learning: On the performativity of testing and its hold on the Future”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Kadija Ferryman & Odia Kane, John Hopkins, “Identifying and
Interrogating Algorithmic Accounts in Medical AI”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Kushang Mishra, IIIT Bangalore, “Data-driven ‘precision’ vs
Farmer’s guesswork: How Data is (Re)Making Agriculture in India”<span></span></span></p>



<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Alexander Campolo (Duham U) & Katia Schwerzmann
(Ruhr-Universität Bochum), “From ‘Is’ to ‘Ought’: Data as Example in Machine
Learning” <span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Lunch, 12:40 pm – 1:40 pm<span></span></span></u></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Panel 3: Calculated Environments, 1:40 pm – 3:20 pm [Parallel
Session 1 of 2]<span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Chair: TBA<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>James Clinton Francis (Columbia Law), Adeline Chum (Columbia),
& Guangyu Wu (Columbia), “Clucked Up: Active Machine Learning of Aerial
Imagery and the Undercounting-Underfunding Problem in North Carolina’s Poultry
Industry”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Matt P. Lukacz, Harvard, “Environmental Technocracy or
Science-Based Policy? Critiques of Quantification in Political Ecology and the
History of Debates About Algorithmic Decision Making in Conservation Biology”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Theodora Dryer, New York University, “Colorado River Water Policy
and ADS Regulation”<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Panel 4: Computed Worlds, 1:40 pm – 3:20 pm [Parallel Session 2 of
2]<span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Chair: TBA<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Pariroo Rattan, Harvard University, “Dueling Economists and
Discriminating Models: Causal Regression Analysis in 21^st Century
American Courts”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Ekaterina Babintseva, Purdue University, “Rules for Creative
Thinking: Algorithms, Heuristics, and Soviet Cybernetic Psychology”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Jonathan Weinberg, Wayne State University, “Everything old is new
again: credit rating and alternative data”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Catherine Powell, Fordham Law, “Race, Place, and Cyberspace”<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Coffee Break, 3:20 pm – 3:40 pm<span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:107%"><span><span style="text-decoration:none"><br></span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Panel 5: Data Work, 3:40 pm – 5:20 pm<span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Chair: TBA<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Karen Levy, Cornell University, “Rules, Loopholes, and Autonomous
Systems”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Ira Anjali Anwar, University of Michigan, “Seeing Like a Gig
Company: Algorithmic Classification and the (Re)Valuation of Labor”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Devin Kennedy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, “Factory Work and
Database Management: Industrial Origins of the Computer Database, 1958-67”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Jordan Ali and Gili Vidan, Cornell University, “The Economization
of Play: Collapsing Value and Liberatory Promises on the Axie Infinity
Platform”<span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:107%"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b><span>Day 2: Saturday, April 1, 2023<span></span></span></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Breakfast, 9:00 am – 9:30 am<span></span></span></u></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Panel 6: Enacting Futures, 9:30 am – 11:10 am<span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Chair: </span><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">Valère Ndior</span><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in">, </span><span style="color:black;background:white">Université de Bretagne occidentale</span><span style="color:black;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0in"> </span><span><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Angelina Wang (Princeton), Sayash Kapoor (Princeton), Solon
Barocas (Cornell), Arvind Narayanan (Princeton), “Against Predictive
Optimization: On the Legitimacy of Decision-Making Algorithms that Optimize
Predictive Accuracy”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Jonnie Penn, University of Cambridge, “Decomputerization as
Détente”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Burcu Baykurt, University of Massachusetts—Amherst, “Extracting
Value” <span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Hannah Zeavin, Indiana University, “Screening Mother, Coding Baby:
Predictive Control, Incarcerated Mothers, and Attachment Theory in the Prison”<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Coffee Break & Lunch Pickup, 11:10 am – 11:30 am<span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span style="font-size:8pt;line-height:107%"><span> </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Panel 7: Mediating Identities, 11:30 am – 1:10 pm [lunch panel]<span></span></span></u></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Chair: Lisa Messeri, Yale University<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Pieter Vanden Broeck & David Stark, Columbia University,
“Class, Code and Control: Algorithmic Management in the Classroom”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Amina Abdu (UMichigan), Lauren Chambers (Berkeley), Abigail Jacobs
(UMichigan), Deirdre Mulligan (Berkeley), “The Limits of (Algorithmic)
Transparency: Lessons Learned from the US Census’ Implementation of
Differential Privacy”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Alicia Boyd, New York University, “Should they? Gender
Recognition, Privacy, and Accelerometers”<span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span>Nina Toft Djanegara, Stanford University, “Face the Nation”<span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u><span>Closing Remarks, 1:10 pm – 1:20 pm<span></span></span></u></p>





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