MediaFutures

Opening of SFI MediaFutures
2021-02-02 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Oslo)
We invite you to the digital opening of SFI MediaFutures – Research Centre for Responsible Media Technology and Innovation, Tuesday 2nd of February 14.00-15.30 CET.
Together with 13 other R&D partners from the media and tech industry and the academic world we are creating the first research centre in Norway developing responsible media technology, and everybody is welcome to the digital opening of the centre.
The centre’s main goal is to generate innovation and value creation for the Norwegian news media and media technology industry through long-term research on responsible media technologies, and we focus on advanced new media technology for responsible and effective media user engagement, media content production & analysis, media content interaction and accessibility. MediaFutures will also research new methods and metrics for precise audience understanding, for example AI technology to reveal fake news or filter bubbles.

Streaming
The event is broadcasted via https://vimeo.com/event/605507
Programme

1400
Welcome
by Centre Director Christoph Trattner

1405
Opening remarks
Henrik Asheim, Norwegian Minister for Research and Higher Education
University of Bergen by Rector Margareth Hagen
Department of information science and media studies by Head of department Leif Ove Larsen
Research Council of Norway

1415
Video greetings from research partners
University of Oslo
NORCE
University of Stavanger

1420
Panel conversation
Moderator: Christoph Trattner, Centre Director, MediaFutures, UiB
In the panel:

Ingrid Agasøster, Chief Operating Officer, Fonn Group
Eirik Solheim, NRK Norwegian Broadcasting Cooperation
Christian Birkeland, Digital director/director TV2 Sumo, TV2

1440
Keynote: Sinan Aral
Sinan Aral is a Global Authority on Business Analytics; Award-winning Researcher; Entrepreneur and Venture Capitalist; Director of MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy and Social Analytics Lab and a founding partner at Manifest Capital. He is a managerial economist and econometrician by training whose expertise spans social networks, causal inference, the design and analysis of large-scale digital experiments, machine learning, predictive modeling, natural language processing, AI, big data, marketing, IT, social commerce, ecommerce, behavior change and economic productivity. He earned his PhD at MIT and completed his Master’s degrees at the London School of Economics and at Harvard.

1500
Video greetings from industry partners
Amedia
Bergens Tidende
Fonn
Highsoft
IBM
NRK
Schibsted
TV2
Vimond
Vizrt

1505
Keynote: Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Bias on Search and Recommender Systems
In this presentation we cover all biases that affect search and recommender systems. They include biases on the data, the algorithms as well as the user interaction, in particular the ones related to relevance feedback loops (e.g., ranking and personalization). In each case we cover the main concepts and when known, the techniques to ameliorate them, as well as biases that might be product of the evaluation methods used. This presentation is partially based on Bias on the Web, Communications of ACM, June 2018. Ricardo Baeza-Yates is currently Director of Graduate Data Science Programs (part-time) of Northeastern University, Silicon Valley campus, since January 2018. Between 2016 and 2020 he was CTO of NTENT, a search technology company based in California. Previously, he was VP of Research at Yahoo Labs. He is part-time professor at the University of Chile and Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, and an adjunct professor at the CS department of the University of Waterloo, Canada. His research interests includes algorithms and data structures, information retrieval, web search and data mining, and data science and visualization. He is ACM Fellow and IEEE Fellow.

1525
End remark
by Centre Director Christoph Trattner

Welcome!
