{"id":16295,"date":"2016-04-15T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T20:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/news\/article.php?ArticleID=16295"},"modified":"2018-10-18T12:36:12","modified_gmt":"2018-10-18T16:36:12","slug":"16295_weapons-of-math-destruction-event-challenges-accuracy-of-algorithms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2016\/04\/15\/16295_weapons-of-math-destruction-event-challenges-accuracy-of-algorithms\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons of Math Destruction Event Challenges Accuracy of Algorithms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Montclair State&#8217;s Creative Research Center,\u00a0the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship and Residence Life\u00a0presented the Fifth Annual Symposium on the Imagination, &#8220;Weapons of Math Destruction:\u00a0What is an Algorithm?&#8221; on April 14, featuring Harvard PhD and author Cathy O&#8217;Neil.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The writer of the upcoming book &#8220;Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy,&#8221; O&#8217;Neil explored what algorithms are (and are not), how they are built, their positive and negative effects, and the ways we can examine them for fairness and ethical behavior.<\/p>\n<p>Click here to read <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tapinto.net\/towns\/montclair\/articles\/is-college-ranking-stop-and-frisk-teacher-evalu\">TAPINTO Montclair&#8217;s April 15 feature<\/a> highlighting the event, Cathy O&#8217;Neil, and ÌÇÐÄvlog professor Dr. Neil Baldwin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montclair State&#8217;s Creative Research Center,\u00a0the Feliciano Center for Entrepreneurship and Residence Life\u00a0presented the Fifth Annual Symposium on the Imagination, &#8220;Weapons of Math Destruction:\u00a0What is an Algorithm?&#8221; on April 14, featuring Harvard PhD and author Cathy O&#8217;Neil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":116295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-177_creative-research-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207415,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16295\/revisions\/207415"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}