Keynotes
Picture credit: Eva Roefs
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
Panel chair: Tone
Walford (University College London)
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?
Conference schedule
Each talk is followed by 5 minutes of short questions, and each session ends with a 15mn 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
- 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
12:00–13:30 — Lunch break
13:30–14:30 — Keynote: Payal Arora
14:30–14:50 — Coffee break
14:50–16:35 — Undone CS and transdisciplinarity
- 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) - 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 transdisciplinarity • Meenakshi Mani
16:35–16:50 — Coffee break
16:50–18:20 — Panel
Tuesday 24 March
9:00–10:45 — Undone CS and AI
- 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
11:15–13:00 — Undone CS and law
- 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
- Using GenAI-derived majoritarian patterns in legal adjudication • Uri Hacohen and Niva Elkin-Koren
13:00–14:30 — Lunch break
14:30–15:30 — Keynote: Tomas Petricek
15:35–16:30 — Undone CS and education
- The Curriculum, Undone: Knowledge and Power in Computer Science Education • Benedetta Catanzariti and James Garforth
- Embracing Impossibility: Computer Science Education for Tomorrow • Atri Rudra and Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller
16:40–16:45 — Coffee break
16:45–18:15 — Undone CS and the industry
- 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
18:15 — A word from the organisers
- Social dinner in Luxembourg city on Tuesday evening
Wednesday 25 March
9:00–10:45 — Undone CS in the cloud
- 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
- Civil Society as Epistemic Actors: Challenging Techno-Solutionist Assumptions in Data Center Policy • Corinne Cath and Bárbara Simão
10:45–11:15 — Coffee break
11:15–12:25 — Undone CS and computational social sciences
- 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
12:25–13:45 — Lunch break
13:45–15:15 — Undone CS and ethics
- 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
- 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
16:40 — Closing
- Social event after the conference: guided tour of Luxembourg city
Abstracts without presentation
The following submissions have been found meriting according to our strict criteria by the programme committee, but could not be included in the schedule, either due to time constraints of the conference or due to author 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
- 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
- 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 • Felienne Hermans