The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design

by Aaron Roth and Michael Kearns

Book Overview

Over the course of a generation, algorithms have gone from mathematical abstractions to powerful mediators of daily life. Algorithms have made our lives more efficient, more entertaining, and, sometimes, better informed. At the same time, complex algorithms are increasingly violating the basic rights of individual citizens. Allegedly anonymized datasets routinely leak our most sensitive personal information; statistical models for everything from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190948205
• ISBN13: 9780190948207
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"