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URL:https://fds.yale.edu/events/fds-colloquium-cynthia-dwork-harvard/
SUMMARY:FDS Colloquium: Cynthia Dwork (Harvard)\, "Outcome Indistinguishabi
 lity and its Diverse Applications"
DESCRIPTION:\nAbstract: Outcome Indistinguishability\, a notion from algor
 ithmic fairness with roots in complexity theory\, frames learning not as l
 oss minimization – the dominant paradigm in supervised machine learning 
 -- but instead as satisfaction of a collection of “indistinguishability
 ” constraints. Outcome Indistinguishability considers two alternate worl
 ds on individual-outcome pairs: in the natural world\, individuals’ outc
 omes are generated by Real-Life’s true distribution\; in the simulated w
 orld\, individuals’ outcomes are sampled according to a predictive model
 . Outcome Indistinguishability requires the learner to produce a predictor
  in which the two worlds are computationally indistinguishable.  The noti
 on has provided a generous springboard\, first and foremost in machine lea
 rning\, and also in complexity theory.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Bio: Cynthia Dwo
 rk\, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard\, and Affiliate
 d Faculty at Harvard Law School and Department of Statistics\, is renowned
  for placing privacy-preserving data analysis on a mathematically rigorous
  foundation.  She has also made seminal contributions in cryptography and
  distributed computing\, and she spearheaded the investigation of the theo
 ry of algorithmic fairness\, her current focus.  Dwork is the recipient o
 f numerous awards including the National Medal of Science\, the IEEE Hammi
 ng Medal\, the RSA award for Excellence in Mathematics\, the Dijkstra\, G
 ödel\, and Knuth Prizes\, and the ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practic
 e Award.  She is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the 
 US National Academy of Engineering\, and is a Fellow of the American Acad
 emy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society.\n\n\n\nWe
 bsite: https://dwork.seas.harvard.edu/detailed-biography-and-curriculum-vi
 tae \n
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