Diversity and Open Science Resources

This page provides a set of resources for computer scientists and students who wish to learn more about the potential impact of their work on people, and on their community.

Things You Can Do

Diversify your subject pool

It takes longer for women to recognize that they suffer from heart attacks, as the common symptoms list was based on reports of male subjects.

Heart attack symptoms in women


Write/think about your work's broader impacts

NeurIPS submissions now require to have a statement of the “potential broader impact of their work, including its ethical aspects and future societal consequences.”

Control your Hyperparameters

Charles Isbell argues that we need to adopt systematic approaches for creating robust artifacts that contribute to larger systems that impact the real human world

Here's why

Make your science open

Sharing your code, data and results makes your scientific contributions stronger.

Here's why

Test your hidden biases

We all have biases, be aware of yours.

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

Get Inspired

When AI misclassified her face, she started a movement for accountability.

Joy Buolamwini


Medical student publishes book on how symptoms look on darker skin.

Read the article

Uri Alon on ``Why science demands a a leap into the unknown''

Watch his TED talk

Maja Mataric's acceptance speech for the Anita Borg Award for Innovation: "don't just do well, do good", the impostor phenomenon and pushing towards your goals

Watch her speech

Organizations and Resources

Black in AI is a multi-institutional initiative creating a space for sharing ideas and fostering collaborations to increase the presence of Black individuals in the field of AI.

https://blackinai.github.io/

she codes; is a community of women established with the goal of reaching 50% women software developers in the Israeli high-tech scene.

https://she-codes.org/

The Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) recognizes the need to improve the ways in which the outputs of scholarly research are evaluated.

Read the declaration


The Cyber Education Center (CEC) invests considerable resources and efforts in the development of non-formal educational programs aimed at students in Israel’s geographic and social periphery. See how you can get involved

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