IA Responsable

In the first part, to set the stage, we cover irresponsible AI: (1) discrimination (e.g., justice); (2) pseudoscience (e.g., biometric-based predictions); (3) human incompetence (e.g., wrong use of technology), (4) indiscriminate use of computing resources (e.g., large language models) and (5) the impact of generative AI (disinformation, mental health, and copyright issues). These examples do have a personal bias but set the context for the second part where we address three challenges: (1) principles & governance, (2) regulation, and (3) our cognitive biases. We finish discussing our responsible AI initiatives and the near future.

Ricardo Baeza-Yates is Director of Research at the Institute for Experiential AI of Northeastern University. Before, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs, based in Barcelona, Spain, and later in Sunnyvale, California, from 2006 to 2016. He is co-author of the bestseller Modern Information Retrieval textbook published by Addison-Wesley in 1999 and 2011 (2nd ed), which won the ASIST 2012 Book of the Year award. From 2002 to 2004, he was elected to the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society and between 2012 and 2016 was elected for the ACM Council. In 2009, he was named ACM Fellow and in 2011 IEEE Fellow, among other awards and distinctions. He obtained a Ph.D. in CS from the University of Waterloo, Canada, in 1989, and his areas of expertise are web search and data mining, information retrieval, bias on AI, data science, and algorithms in general.

Open Science

An overview of the Open Science paradigm for doing research, as the scientific community demands and governments mandate, and how our everyday life as researchers may change. This includes the speaker own vision/conception of how to apply Open Science in computing research, as well as his team’s long-term work on the OpenAIRE data infrastructure in Europe. The topic is critical and it will affect everyone. Most people involved in research may be interested in this.

Yannis Ioannidis (Ph.D., Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley; MSc, Applied Mathematics, Harvard University; Diploma, Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens) is the President of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens as well as an Associated Faculty at the “Athena” Research and Innovation Center, where he also served as the President and General Director for 10 years. His research interests include Database and Information Systems, Data Science, Data and Text Analytics, Data Infrastructures and Digital Repositories, Recommender Systems and Personalization, and Interactive Digital Storytelling, topics on which he has published over 170 articles in leading journals and conferences and holds four patents. His work is often inspired by and applied to data management and analysis problems that arise in industrial environments or in the context of other scientific fields (Social Sciences and Humanities, Life Sciences, Physical Sciences) and the Arts. He has been the coordinator and legal entity head of OpenAIRE, which implements the European policies on open access to research publications and data. He was the software director and technical coordinator of the European Human Brain Project flagship initiative and its resulting legal entity EBRAINS, the coordinator of the EOSC Future strategic project, which implements the core elements of the European Open Science Cloud, and a coordinator or partner in tens of other European and national research and innovation projects. He has also led or is currently leading the creation of new international or spin-off companies. He is an ACM and IEEE Fellow, a member of Academia Europaea, and a recipient of several research and teaching awards. He has served as the Greek delegate to the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) (2012-2023), being a member of its Executive Board (2016-2022) and a vice-chair (2019-2021), currently being a permanent expert. He is also the Greek delegate in the European Open Science Cloud Steering Board as well as a co-chair of the Global Climate Hub of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (UN SDSN).

All Questions Answered

My main life’s work has been to write The Art of Computer Programming, a work-still-in-progress that attempts to organize and summarize what is known about the vast subject of computer methods and to give it firm mathematical and historical foundations. (The five volumes published so far have been translated into many languages and more than a million copies have been sold.) As a researcher in computer science, I am more or less the «father» of several subareas called the analysis of algorithms, LR(k) and LL(k) parsing, attribute grammars, empirical study of programming languages, and literate programming. My best-known research in mathematics is represented by the Knuth-Bendix algorithm for word problems, the Robinson-Schensted-Knuth correspondence between matrices and tableaux, and an analysis of the big bang that occurs in the evolution of random graphs. As a university professor I introduced a variety of new courses into the curriculum, notably Concrete Mathematics, and I supervised the dissertations of 28 excellent students. And as a programmer, I wrote software systems called TeX and METAFONT that are used for the majority of today’s mathematical publications and now have more than a million users worldwide.

Gobernanza de productos: un desafío ineludible para empresas proveedoras y consumidoras de software

Sergio F. Ochoa obtuvo el título de Ingeniero de Sistemas en la UNICEN, Argentina, el grado de Doctor en Ciencias de la Ingeniería en la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, y realizó un postdoctorado en la Universidad de Illinois en Urbana-Champaign, Estados Unidos de América. Desde el 2001 es académico del Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación de la Universidad de Chile. Sus áreas de interés son la ingeniería de software y el trabajo colaborativo apoyado por computador, incluyendo computación móvil y ubicua. Su trabajo científico ha sido publicado en más de 60 artículos en revistas indexadas en WoS, y más de 160 artículos en conferencias internacionales. Además, ha sido editor invitado de números especiales en una decena de revistas indexadas en WoS. Por otra parte, el Dr. Ochoa ha sido miembro fundador de LACCIR (Latin American and Caribbean Collaborative ICT Research Federation), y regularmente participa en diversas iniciativas de organizaciones científicas internacionales y regionales, tales como la IEEE, ACM, SCCC, y en la Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo de Chile (ANID). Desde hace más de dos décadas colabora con empresas de software chilenas, buscando mejorar las prácticas de desarrollo de proyectos y productos.