Conference programme
Undone Computer Science 2026

Keynotes

Monday, March 23rd, 1:30-2:30pm (CET)
Payal Arora (Utrecht University and FemLab)
Building Inclusive Datasets: From Values to Design

Remote talk

Most AI datasets today reflect the priorities of WEIRD societies—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic—limiting their global relevance. As demand grows to debias and diversify AI, how do we create datasets that reflect varied local contexts yet scale responsibly? How do we define fairness, trust, or quality when meaning is culturally dynamic?

Payal Arora, a digital anthropologist, professor at Utrecht University and founder of the Inclusive AI Lab, shares practical insights from work with Adobe, Google, H2020, and IDRC to tackle these challenges and build socially attuned, globally usable datasets.

Tuesday, March 24th, 2:30-3:30pm (CET)
Tomas Petricek (Charles University, Prague)
Undone Ideas on Programming: When Cultures Fail to Meet

In Cultures of Programming, I argue that many interesting moments in the history of programming can be interpreted as interactions between five “cultures” that represent different basic ways of thinking about the nature of programs and programming.

The idea of a programming language appears when mathematical ideas on formal grammars join with hacker tricks for implementing automatic coding systems; object-oriented programming is transformed as it passes from the “personal dynamic media” of the humanistic culture to a program structuring mechanism of the engineering culture.

In this talk, I will use the lens of interactions between different cultures of programming to look for undone work in the area of programming research. What might the mathematical culture contribute to the hacker craft of program debugging? How might the humanistic culture transform the notion of program semantics? How would the hacker culture reinterpret the quest for program verification?

Panel

Monday, March 23rd, 16:50-18:20 (CET)
The Politics of Computer Science: margins and centres

In this roundtable, we invite a range of people who work in Computer Science (CS) either as academics or activists (or both!) to discuss how the processes of marginalisation and hierarchisation — whether epistemological, geographic, disciplinary, linguistic or otherwise — that shape CS and related areas speak to broader social, economic and political processes and histories. In what ways does CS need to reckon with these broader systems of power and access, and how does it need to change to do so?

• Panel chair: Tone Walford (University College London, UK)
• Zoe Kahn (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
• Kay Kender (TU Wien, Austria)
• Tanya Osborne (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
• Tarunima Prabhakar (Tattle Civic Technologies), remote
• Helena Suárez Val (Data Against Feminicide), remote

Conference schedule

Each talk is followed by 5 minutes of short clarification questions, and each session ends with a 20-25mn discussion.

More information on the social events (Tuesday evening and Wednesday afternoon) is available at the registration & travel info page.

Monday 23 March

9:30–10:30 — Welcome coffee

10:30–12:00 — Undone CS, research method and selection (chair: Sophie Quinton)

• Welcome by the organisers
• Video streaming: how do the socio-economical models shape our research questions? • Natacha Lapeyroux, Benedicte Toullec, Vincent Carlino, Anne-Cécile Orgerie and Thomas Maugey
• ICT environmental impact evaluation at sixes and sevens: Leveraging social studies for better use of quantification • Clément Morand, Aurélie Névéol and Anne-Laure Ligozat
• Beyond benchmarks: The undone science of model validation • Ismail Harrando and Alexander Kindel

12:05–13:30 — Lunch break

13:30–14:30 — Keynote: Payal Arora (chair: Valérie Schafer)

14:30–14:50 — Coffee break

14:50–16:35 — Undone CS and transdisciplinarity (chair: Liesbeth de Mol)

• The Computer Science Undone: How The Social Construction of Disciplinary Boundaries and Disciplinary Hierarchies Shape a Field • Felienne Hermans
  (Invited talk on an article from the upcoming special issue of Philosophia Scientiæ on Undone Computer Science — Preprint)
• A bias against the present: Recurring sociotechnical oversights in HCI’s cyclical visions of the future • Jacob Ritchie and Jingyi Li
• Undone computer science through the rethinking of interdisciplinarity • Meenakshi Mani (remote talk)

16:35–16:50 — Coffee break

16:50–18:20 — Panel

From 18:45 — Welcome reception at Bistro V'diterraneo

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Tuesday 24 March

9:00–10:45 — Undone CS and AI (chair: H. Ambre Ayats)

• Explainable AI as a consequence of target system ignorance in Machine Learning • Clément Arlotti
• Radical alternatives for AI • François Levin
• Memory Undone: Between Knowing and Not Knowing in Data Systems • Viktoriia Makovska, George Fletcher, Julia Stoyanovich and Tetiana Zakharchenko

10:45–11:15 — Coffee break

11:15–12:30 — Undone CS and law (chair: Pierre Depaz)

• Ineffective Right & Undone Science: the case of the access to administrative algorithms in France • Luc Pellissier and Noé Wagener
• Electronic bureaucracy and lack of reflexivity • David Monniaux

12:30–13:00 — A word from the organisers / Discussion on the future of the conference

13:00–14:30 — Lunch break

14:30–15:30 — Keynote: Tomas Petricek (chair: Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni)

15:35–16:15 — Undone CS and education (chair: Felienne Hermans)

• Embracing Impossibility: Computer Science Education for Tomorrow • Atri Rudra and Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller

16:15–16:45 — Coffee break

16:45–18:15 — Undone CS and the industry (chair: Armaël Guéneau)

• Fragmented Innovation: Anime and the Limits of Computer Science R&D • Jun Kato
• Can We Rigorously and Verifiably Determine How Little the Industry complies with Copyleft Licenses such as GPL? • Bradley Kühn
• Who is driving storage research? Questioning the priorities behind SSD research • Ryan Lahfa

19:30 — Social dinner in Luxembourg city: Brasserie du Cercle

• We recommend taking the train at Belval-Université station at 18:39 or an earlier one.
• The last train for Belval-Université departs at 00:00 from Luxembourg station.

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Wednesday 25 March

9:30–10:40 — Undone CS in the cloud (chair: Stéphane Bortzmeyer)

• Agile software production in computational infrastructures • Donald Jay Bertulfo and Seda Gürses
• From research to Deuxfleurs and back again: towards digital service infrastructure as commons • Baptiste Jonglez and Lucien Astié

10:45–11:15 — Coffee break

11:15–12:25 — Undone CS, humanities and social sciences (chair: Pierre Depaz)

• Computer Science as a Humanities Discipline: Recovering the Humanistic Roots of Computation • Michael Piotrowski
• Computer science first, social sciences second: A critical sociological account of Computational Social Science • Chung-Hong Chan and Paul Balluff

12:25–13:45 — Lunch break

13:45–15:15 — Undone CS and ethics (chair: Luc Rocher)

• What is Cryptography Hiding from Itself? • Diego F. Aranha and Nikolas Melissaris
• Undone Codes: Ethics in the ACM 1966-1992 • Jacob Bruggeman and Megan Finn
• Undone Canadian CS Ethics: Real-world Moral Dilemmas and Responsibilities • Mohamed Abdalla and Catherine Stinson

15:15–15:30 — Coffee break

15:30–16:40 — Undone CS without and within limits (chair: Lorenz Hilty)

• The indirect rebound effects of AI as undone science: philosophical reflection on two structural causes • Damien Lacroux, Aurélie Bugeau and Anne-Laure Ligozat
• Cultivating a Historicist Sensibility through Permacomputing • Nils Bonfils, Aarjav Chauhan and Christoph Becker (remote talk)

16:40–16:50 — Closing

Social event after the conference for those who stay: guided tour of Luxembourg city (the tour guide expects the group at 18:05).
The tour is cancelled due to the heavy weather.

• To be on time for the visit, the latest train departs at 17:27 from Belval-Université.
• As an alternative, we suggest that you check out the Mudam — Museum of modern art of Luxembourg (especially the Ivan Cheng exposition). It should be open until 21:00 (but check in case of deteriorating weather conditions).
• The last return train for Belval-Université is 00:00, so you can enjoy the rest of the evening in the city.

Abstracts without presentation

The following submissions have been found meriting according to our strict criteria by the programme committee, but could unfortunately not be included in the schedule, either due to time constraints of the conference or due to author's or other constraints.

• On Machine Learning Systems and Production Harms: the case of Pig Farms • Agathe Balayn and Seda Gürses
• Issues of Ethics, Privacy, and Cognitive Liberty in Computing • Jessica Barfield
• The Curriculum, Undone: Knowledge and Power in Computer Science Education • Benedetta Catanzariti and James Garforth
• Civil Society as Epistemic Actors: Challenging Techno-Solutionist Assumptions in Data Center Policy • Corinne Cath and Bárbara Simão
• Towards a systemic framework for assessing the environmental rebound effects of Artificial Intelligence • Simon Delarue
• Undone Transparency: How to Address Blind Spots in AI Governance Caused by Self-Reporting • Shlomi Hod, Maayan Perel, Yonatan Lourie and Niva Elkin-Koren
• Using GenAI-derived majoritarian patterns in legal adjudication • Uri Hacohen and Niva Elkin-Koren
• Germinating Seeds of Computing Systems (Hopefully) Compatible with Planetary Limits: An “Already-there” Example (EN) / Ensemencement de systèmes informatiques compatibles avec les limites planétaires : un exemple de graine « déjà-là » (FR) • Marie-Pierre Escudié and Lionel Morel
• One theory can block another (The case of information) / Une théorie peut en bloquer une autre (Le cas de l’information) (EN/FR) • Didier Vaudène

Journal papers

The following author in the upcoming special issue of Philosophia Scientiæ on Undone Computer Science (to appear) has been invited to give a talk:

• The Computer Science Undone: How The Social Construction of Disciplinary Boundaries and Disciplinary Hierarchies Shape a Field (preprint) • Felienne Hermans