Mudd Center • The Ethics of Technology speaker Helen Nissenbaum

Helen Nissenbaum is Professor of Information Science at Cornell Tech and the author or co-author of eight books. Before joining Cornell Tech in 2016, she served as Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, and Computer Science, at New York University, where she was also Director of the Information Law Institute. Earlier she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University. In March 2019, she was named a Distinguished Fellow of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Nissenbaum's research takes an ethical perspective on policy, law, science, and engineering relating to information technology, computing, digital media, and data science. She is known for the concept of "contextual integrity" and for her work on privacy, privacy law, trust, and security in the online world. In 2014, she received the Barwise Prize of the American Philosophical Association for "significant and substantial contributions to areas relevant to philosophy and computing."