Barbara Lauriat (’04) named a Fellow of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center and Institute for Advanced Study
The Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center (ND-TEC) and the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (NDIAS) have partnered to offer three faculty Technology Ethics Fellowships during the 2020-2021 academic year. The Fellows will spend all or part of the year in residence at the University of Notre Dame working on a technology ethics-related project within the broader NDIAS theme, the Nature of Trust.
“ND-TEC is thrilled to be able to work with the NDIAS to offer these new fellowship opportunities,” said Mark McKenna, acting director of ND-TEC and the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law. “As always, our goal is to nurture world-class scholarship in the area of technology ethics and this partnership with the Institute presented a great avenue to make that possible. We can’t wait to have these fellows in our community.”
The Technology Ethics Fellows are:
- Barbara Lauriat (CAS’01, LAW’04), senior lecturer at King’s College London, for her research, “Global arbiters of reasonableness and selectors of standards—technology and trust.”
- Mutale Nkonde, fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and executive director of AI for the People, for her study, “Facial Recognition Tool Kit: A guide for black and other advocates of color.”
- Michael Robillard, research fellow at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, for his project, “Privacy, Social Knowledge, and Accountability: Building trustworthy institutions in the Age of Big Data.”
Lauriat will also join the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University as a faculty associate for the 2020–21 year. Read more