{"615654":{"#nid":"615654","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Data Science Expert Jeannette Wing Delivers Mary Jean Harrold Memorial Distinguished Lecture","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EData science is the future, and it must be used responsibly. This was the message of Professor \u003Cstrong\u003EJeannette Wing\u0026rsquo;s\u003C\/strong\u003E lecture, \u003Cem\u003EData for Good: Data Science at Columbia\u003C\/em\u003E. The Columbia University computer science professor delivered the Mary Jean Harrold Memorial Distinguished Lecture on Dec. 7.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENamed after former School of Computer Science (SCS) Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/features\/college-computing-remembers-mary-jean-harrold\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMary Jean Harrold\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, the lecture honors women in computing who are changing the field.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We started this as a memorial to Mary Jean to find a lecturer who would really capture her excellence for service and spirit,\u0026rdquo; SCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/people.math.gatech.edu\/~randall\/\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDana Randall\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E said in her introduction. \u0026ldquo;Jeannette has had an incredibly distinguished career.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWing is the Avanessians Director of Columbia\u0026rsquo;s Data Science Institute (DSI). She has also served as corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, assistant director of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at the National Science Foundation, and chair of the Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science. Her research spans a wide breadth of computer science\u0026mdash;including programming languages, software engineering, security, and distributed systems\u0026mdash;all areas that are vital to data science.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDSI is comprised of \u0026nbsp;300 affiliated faculty in 12 schools, touching degrees in cybersecurity, smart cities, media, and more. Its mission is to advance research, bring data science to all fields, and ensure data is being used ethically.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;We have a chance with data science to get it right, and I think it\u0026rsquo;s important to start teaching data ethics from day one,\u0026rdquo; Wing said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWing\u0026rsquo;s institute is part of an international focus on data science, and Georgia Tech is also contributing to the conversation. Randall co-leads the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ideas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EInstitute for Data Engineering and Science (IDEaS)\u003C\/a\u003E to connect industry, academia, and government to our data science expertise and work on big data problems together.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESCS Professor \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/people\/11077\/ellen-zeguras\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEllen Zegura\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E makes sure students incorporate responsible data science into their work. She has created the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/599626\/computing-and-social-good-school-computer-sciences-ellen-zegura-brings-computing\u0022\u003EComputing for Good\u003C\/a\u003E program to bring students into the communities they\u0026rsquo;re studying, works with \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/serve-learn-sustain.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EServe-Learn-Sustain\u003C\/a\u003E to provide \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/604361\/school-computer-science-student-connects-community-through-serve-learn-sustain\u0022\u003Etools\u003C\/a\u003E for using data in the classroom, co-leads a \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/608094\/fifth-summer-civic-data-science-program-presents-community-focused-solutions\u0022\u003Edata summer program\u003C\/a\u003E for college students from across the country, and is studying how to bring \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scs.gatech.edu\/news\/607637\/georgia-tech-researchers-and-community-collaborate-data-science\u0022\u003Ecare\u003C\/a\u003E to data science research.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWing discussed how ethics must be applied to the entire data science process, as follows:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EGenerating data. Everything from sensors to cameras generates data. It\u0026rsquo;s vital that researchers know companies and other third parties can find value in this data and use it to their advantage.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EProcessing data. In this stage, data is wrangled, cleaned, compressed, encrypted, and managed to make it easier to use. Throughout this process, data must be kept secure.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\t\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EInterpreting data. Data is only useful when analyzed. Data visualization gives a narrative to what the data means, and the story researchers tell can alter how that data is used.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWing believes it\u0026rsquo;s fundamental that academics embed ethics in all parts of the process.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;It is academia\u0026rsquo;s reasonability to understand the fundamentals of why the world works or why something we engineer works,\u0026rdquo; Wing said. \u0026ldquo;Industry doesn\u0026rsquo;t have time to step back and figure it out. If we don\u0026rsquo;t have the academics thinking beyond deep learning, then it\u0026rsquo;s not good for the entire community.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"he Columbia University computer science professor delivered the Mary Jean Harrold Memorial Distinguished Lecture on Dec. 7."}],"uid":"34541","created_gmt":"2018-12-20 16:15:31","changed_gmt":"2018-12-20 16:19:05","author":"Tess Malone","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2018-12-20T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"614738":{"id":"614738","type":"image","title":"Jeanette Wing","body":null,"created":"1543439121","gmt_created":"2018-11-28 21:05:21","changed":"1543439121","gmt_changed":"2018-11-28 21:05:21","alt":"Jeannette Wing","file":{"fid":"234056","name":"Jeannette-Wing.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jeannette-Wing.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Jeannette-Wing.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":503752,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Jeannette-Wing.jpg?itok=5lQYiGtw"}}},"media_ids":["614738"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"50875","name":"School of Computer Science"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39431","name":"Data Engineering and Science"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETess Malone, Communications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Etess.malone@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["tess.malone@cc.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}