Professional Issues and Ethics in Information Technology COMP4920 25T3

Correction to yesterday's lecture!

Posted by Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson Thursday 09 October 2025, 11:48:50 AM.

CORRECTION - ImageNet was not made by Google, it was created in 2007 by researchers at Stanford University and Princeton University. Google made Google Photo, which was similarly flawed.

Oops!!

Mea culpa - there are so many examples that I am getting them mixed up : /

All best,

Seb

Study Questions for Week 4 Lecture 2

Posted by Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson Wednesday 08 October 2025, 01:41:09 PM.

Hi everyone!

It was great to see you again today, and I am looking forward to next week. Thank you for all of your great questions! It was the most fun I have had giving a lecture for some time : )

We did not make it to the Study Questions slide, so here they are:

(1) Is a desire for value neutrality value neutral?

(2) What happens is we replace the causal model of explanation with a statistical model of explanation?

The first question invites you to think carefully about the nature of the pursuit of value neutrality itself.

The second question invites you to engage carefully with this week’s reading for the second lecture.

All best,

Se

Good luck with your first essay!

Posted by Sebastian Sequoiah-Grayson Friday 03 October 2025, 10:37:03 AM.

Hi everyone : )

Just a quick note to wish you all the very best of luck with your first essay today.

Have a marvellous long weekend!

All best,

Seb