Tech Ethics eXchange NorthEast

Tech Ethics eXchange NorthEast (teχnē), a collaboration between Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing at MIT, The Ethics Institute at Northeastern University, and Embedded EthiCS @ Harvard University, is pleased to announce their first annual interdisciplinary conference on research and teaching on the ethics of technology will be held at Harvard on May 18–19, 2023.

Event Dates

May 18-19, 2023

Event Host

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Keynote Speakers

Speaker biographies

Anita Allen

Anita L. Allen is the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. A graduate of Harvard Law with a PhD from the University of Michigan in Philosophy, Allen is internationally renowned as an expert on philosophical dimensions of privacy and data protection law, ethics, bioethics, legal philosophy, women’s rights, and diversity in higher education. She was Penn’s Vice Provost for Faculty from 2013–2020 and chaired the Provost’s Arts Advisory Council. A prolific scholar, Allen has published over 120 articles and chapters. Her books include: Unpopular Privacy: What Must We Hide (Oxford, 2011); Privacy Law and Society (Thomson/West, 2017); The New Ethics: A Guided Tour of the 21st Century Moral Landscape (Miramax/Hyperion, 2004); Why Privacy Isn’t Everything: Feminist Reflections on Personal Accountability (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003), and Uneasy Access: Privacy of Women in a Free Society (Rowman & Littlefield, 1988).

Casey Fiesler

Casey Fiesler is an associate professor in Information Science (and Computer Science by courtesy) at University of Colorado Boulder. She researches and teaches in the areas of technology ethics, internet law and policy, and online communities, and her work on ethical speculation and ethics education is supported by an NSF CAREER Award. Her current work is primarily around technology ethics and law, and online communities. Current areas of focus include big data research ethics, ethics education, ethical speculation in technology design, technology empowerment for marginalized communities, and broadening participation in computing; much of this work is generously supported by the National Science Foundation, Mozilla, and Omidyar. Also a public scholar, she is a frequent commentator and speaker on topics of technology ethics and policy, and her work has been covered everywhere from The New York Times to Teen Vogue. She holds a PhD in Human-Centered Computing from Georgia Tech and a JD from Vanderbilt Law School.

Helen Nissenbaum

Helen Nissenbaum is a Professor at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University. She is also Director of the Digital Life Initiative, which was launched in 2017 at Cornell Tech to explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. Her own research takes an ethical perspective on policy, law, science, and engineering relating to information technology, computing, digital media and data science. Topics have included privacy, trust, accountability, security, and values in technology design. Her books include Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, with Finn Brunton (MIT Press, 2015) and Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford, 2010).