Dear Colleagues, Colette Perold, Gerardo Con, Diaz Honghong Tinn and I (Program Committee) are delighted to announce the Program for: *Automation by Design: Politics, Culture, and Landscape in an Age of Machines That Learn* *A CBI Virtual Symposium, Fri/Sat Feb. 17 & 18, 2023* *Program and (Free) Registration Now Available At:* *CBI for Computing, Info. & Culture's "Automation by Design <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/automation-design>"* Best, Jeff, Con, Colette, and Honghong *Please connect: Twitter <https://twitter.com/justcodeculture> ** Linkedin <https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-yost-b714566>** CBI-FB <https://www.facebook.com/babbageinstitute> Blockchain & Society FB <https://www.facebook.com/Decentralizedinternet/>* *Jeffrey Yost, Ph.D. * Director, Charles Babbage Institute <http://www.cse.umn.edu/cbi>; Research Professor, HSTM 222 21st Avenue South, University of Minnesota; Minneapolis, MN 55455 *Studies in Computing and Culture book series, Johns Hopkins U. Press * Co-Editor *PI, NSF-funded CBI project "Mining a Useable Past: Perspectives, Paradoxes, and Possibilities with Security and Privacy."* *Blockchain & Society Blog and Site* <https://www.blockchainandsociety.com> (Founder/Leader) *Interfaces: Essays and Reviews in Computing and Culture <https://cse.umn.edu/cbi/interfaces> *Co-Editor (w/ Amanda Wick) *Committee Member, National Academy of Engineering Extraordinary Engineering Impacts on Society* *Making IT Work: A History of the Computer Services Industry (MIT Press) <https://amzn.to/3gqe4R6>*