The limits of data protection and anti-discrimination in responding to emergent discrimination The potential for biases being built into algorithms has been known for some time...

In this seminar cycle, students are guided in the direct usage of a powerful C++ library implementing many state-of-the-art compressed data structures for big data. Other than...

The proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on data governance is the first of a set of measures announced in the 2020 European strategy for...

A growing body of research emphasises the role of ‘social determinants of health’ in generating inequalities in health outcomes. How, if at all, should primary care providers...

The rise of “Big Data” analytics in the private sector poses new challenges for privacy advocates. Through its reliance on existing data and predictive analysis to create...

In Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari argues that technological advances of the twenty-first century will usher in a significant shift in how humans make important life decisions....

An Analytic Road Map to Examine Efficiency and Fairness in Automated and Opaque Decision Making We are currently witnessing a sharp rise in the use of algorithmic...

Attribute-aware community discovery aims to find well-connected communities that are also homogeneous w.r.t. the labels carried by the nodes. In this work, we address such a...

Artificial intelligence, and machine learning (ML) in particular, is being used for different purposes that are critical for human life. To avoid an algorithm-based...

Algorithms form an increasingly important part of our daily lives, even if we are often unaware of it. They are enormously useful in many different ways. They facilitate the...

How did the COVID-19 epidemics change our mobility habits, and how did it impact on people’s well-being and on the virus transmissibility? In the first webinar of the seminar...

Our society is being shaped in a non-negligible way by the technological advances of recent years, especially in information and communications technologies (ICTs). The...

The emergency of the Coronavirus imposes a cultural debate on the balancing of rights, freedoms and social responsibilities, finalized to the protection of individual and...

Informational self-determination refers to the right or ability of individuals to exercise personal control over the collection, use and disclosure of their personal data by...

Information technology allows us to generate, store, and process huge quantities of data. Search engines, satellites, sensor networks, scientists, security agencies,...

Federated learning (FL) is an alternative to centralized machine learning (ML) that builds a model across multiple decentralized edge devices (a.k.a. workers) that own the...

Unveil the homophilic/heterophilic behaviors that characterize the wiring patterns of complex networks is an important task in social network analysis, often approached...

The speed of development in Big Data and associated phenomena, such as social media, has surpassed the capacity of the average consumer to understand his or her actions and...

The urban–rural divide is increasing in modern societies calling for geographical extensions of social influence modelling. Improved understanding of innovation diffusion...

Federated learning is a decentralized machine learning technique that aggregates partial models trained by a set of clients on their own private data to obtain a global model....