[ecrea] Symposium - Face-Off: Facial Recognition Technologies and Humanity in an Era of Big Data

Please join us on April 18th from 9:30am - 3:20pm for Boston 
University's international symposium Face-Off: Facial Recognition 
Technologies and Humanity in an Era of Big Data.  Speakers and panels 
are as follows:

*Panel 1: Understanding Facial Recognition*

How Does the Face Recognition Technology Work?
/Margrit Betke, Boston University/

The Biology of Facial Recognition
/Mark Frank, University at Buffalo
/
*Panel 2: Ethical Concerns and Practical Benefits*

The Risks and Benefits of Facial Recognition? A New Direction Needed
/Vanessa Nurock, Epidapo CNRS-UCLA & Université Paris 8/

The Ethical Significance of the Face and AI Facial Recognition
/Laura Specker Sullivan, Harvard Medical School’s Center for Bioethics/

An Industry Perspective on Facial Recognition Technology
/Derek Christensen, Accenture
/
*Panel 3: Historical and Contemporary Uses and Abuses
*
Alphonse Bertillon: Issues in the “Scientific” Identification of Persons 
by Means of Facial Features at the Turn of the 20th Century
/Pierre Piazza, Cergy-Pontoise University/

The Perpetual Line-Up: Unregulated Police Face Recognition in America
/Clare Garvie and Alvaro Bedoya, the Center on Privacy and Technology at 
Georgetown Law
Jonathan Frankle, Massachusetts Institute of Technology/

*Panel 4: Applications and Perceptions
*
Emotion, Classification, and Race in Facial Recognition Systems
/Luke Stark, Dartmouth College
/
Public Perceptions and Concerns: A View from Chile
/Daniel Halpern, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile/

Putting a Face to a Name in Clinical Settings: Recognizing Faces in 
Manifestation and Outcomes of Clinician Anonymity
/Lora Appel, OpenLab University Health Network, Toronto
York University, Toronto/

For additional details and registration information, please visit the 
event website <https://www.mellonphilemerge.com/events/face-off>.  Be 
sure to click Read More for full details.  Space is limited, so please 
be sure to register!

Contact Sarah Krongard at (krongard /at/ bu.edu) <mailto:(krongard /at/ bu.edu)> with 
any questions.


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