Antonio Vetrò
(Director of Research at Nexa Center)
Mercoledì 28 giugno 2017, ore 13.00 – 14.00
Centro Nexa su Internet & Società
Politecnico di Torino, via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano)
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Humanity is witnessing an historical transition towards a world of massive, real time availability of data from our environments and from human behaviour it has been estimated that in the last 10 years humanity accumulated more information than in the rest of its entire history. This phenomenon is known as “Big Data”. Big Data can profoundly change the world we live in, bringing disruptive innovations in fundamental sectors such as science and economy, and even a revolution in the way we conduct our lives and we perceive it.
Notwithstanding the high expectations on the impact of Big Data for our societies, we observe a plethora of notes of caution, too. The revolutionary aspects above mentioned has been criticized in different fields: scientific communities has raised doubt over the epistemological and methodological flaws in Big Data analytics, while data-driven decision-making entails ethical and legal issues about privacy, accountability, bias and discrimination.
The aim of this lunch seminar is to openly discuss the phenomenon, with an eye on the philosophical and historical roots. Future research and policy directions will be also mentioned.
Biografia
Antonio Vetrò is Director of Research at the Nexa Center for Internet and Society at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). Formerly, he has been research fellow in the Software and System Engineering Department at Technische Universität München (Germany) and junior scientist at Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering (MD, USA). He holds a PhD in Information and System Engineering from Politecnico di Torino (Italy).
He is specialised in empirical methodologies and statistical analyses, applying such an empirical epistemological approach to study the impact of technology on society. After working for a few years on methodologies to improve the quality of software and data, he recently steered his research on how to transfer technological innovations to industry and public institutions.
Letture consigliate e link utili
- Viktor Mayer-Schnbergeri, Big Data: A Revolution that will Transform how We Live, Work and Think, Viktor Mayer-Schnberger and Kenneth Cukier, John Murray Publishers, UK, 2013.
- Kent W. Staley, An Introduction to Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University Press
- Lepri, B., Staiano, J., Sangokoya, D., Letouzé, E., & Oliver, N., The Tyranny of Data? The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision-Making for Social Good, arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.00323, 2016.
- Brent Daniel Mittelstadt, Patrick Allo, Mariarosaria Taddeo, , Sandra Wachter, Luciano Floridi, The ethics of algorithms: Mapping the debate, Big Data & Society, Vol 3, Issue 2 , First published date: November-01-2016.
- Cecconi, F. and Cencini, M. and Falcioni, M. and Vulpiani, Predicting the future from the past: An old problem from a modern perspective, American Journal of Physics, 80, 1001-1008 (2012).
- Francesco Sylos Labini, Big Data Complexity and Scientific Method.
- Chris Anderson, The End of Theory, Edge.