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July 15-18, 2019
Portland, OR
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Maureen McElaney

Maureen McElaney
Developer Advocate, IBM

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Maureen McElaney is a developer advocate at the IBM Center of Open Source Data and AI Technologies, where she enjoys broadening IBM’s understanding and involvement in open source communities. Previously, she was a QA engineer at Dealer.com. An experienced community builder, founding her local chapter of Girl Develop It, she’s passionate about building tools that increase developer productivity and joy.

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11:50am–12:30pm Wednesday, July 17, 2019
Digital discrimination: Cognitive bias in machine learning
Incorporating Artificial Intelligence
 Location: C123-124
Secondary topics:  AI Enhanced
Maureen McElaney (IBM)
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With increasing regularity we see stories in the news about machine learning algorithms causing real-world harm to people's lives and livelihoods. Maureen McElaney examines how bias can take root in machine learning algorithms and ways to overcome it. Read more.