"Computing on Earth" Dinner and Conversation with Dr. Steve Jackson (North Campus Sustainability Series)

This short and interactive talk will offer a lightning tour through the problem of ‘computing on earth’: the ways in which computing (and now AI) draws from, runs on, and ultimately returns to the earth.  Reviewing themes from computing-related sourcing and extraction to energy and water to waste and repair, the talk aims to help students understand computing as a material and planetary process, and not really ‘a cloud’ at all.  We’ll discuss students' own choices and options around these questions, and also how Cornell as an institution is starting to think through these challenges.

Steven Jackson is a Professor of Information Science and Science and Technology Studies and Vice-Provost for Academic Innovation at Cornell University.  He works on problems of technology ethics, law and policy along with governance and collaboration: the million and one ways in which people work together to produce better outcomes, big and small.  He’s especially interested in infrastructure, repair, and the pragmatics of hope, and the places where new computational practices meet shifting social and material worlds with implications for sustainability, justice and inequality.  He also directs the Computing On Earth Lab, an experimental collaboration that brings together social scientists, humanists, artists and engineers to rethink the material and planetary foundations of computing.  

This event is part of the North Campus Sustainability Series and is sponsored by Faculty Living Learning Programs. 
 

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Co-hosted with: Balch Hall, Ujamaa Residential College, Latino Living Center, Mary Donlon Hall, Court-Kay-Bauer Hall, Townhouse Community, The High Rises: Jameson Hall and High Rise 5, Mews and Loving House: the LGBTQ+ Living Learning Unit, Clara Dickson Hall, Risley Residential College, Low Rises 6 & 7, Ecology House - Hurlburt Residential College for Environmental Education and Awareness, Akwe:kon, Just About Music Program House, Holland International Living Center, The Multicultural Living Learning Unit (McLLU), Toni Morrison Hall, Ganędagǫ: Hall, North Campus Faculty Living-Learning Programs (OWNER), Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hall, Barbara McClintock Hall, Hu Shih Hall

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