[Eril-l] Dr. Timnit Gebru Is Our 2025 Miles Conrad Awardee

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*Baltimore, MD | December 12, 2024*—We are delighted to announce that Dr.
Timnit Gebru, Executive Director of the Distributed Artificial Intelligence
Research Institute (DAIR) <https://www.dair-institute.org/>, will be the
recipient of the 2025 Miles Conrad Award, NISO’s lifetime achievement award
for those working in the information community. She will receive her award
and deliver the 2025 Miles Conrad Lecture virtually during the NISO Plus
Baltimore conference <https://niso.plus/niso-plus-2025-baltimore/> at 3:15
pm EST on Wednesday, February 12, 2025.

Prior to founding DAIR, Dr. Timnit Gebru was co-lead of the Ethical AI
research team at Google, where she was fired in December 2020 after raising
issues of discrimination in the workplace. Timnit also co-founded Black in
AI <http://blackinai.org/>, a nonprofit that works to increase the
presence, inclusion, visibility and health of Black people in the field of
AI, and is on the board of AddisCoder <http://addiscoder.com/>, a nonprofit
dedicated to teaching algorithms and computer programming to Ethiopian and
Jamaican high school students. She has received a number of accolades,
including being named one of Nature’s Ten people who helped shape science
<https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-021-03621-0/index.html> and
one of TIME
100’s most influential people
<https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2022/6177822/timnit-gebru/>.
She is currently writing The View from Somewhere, a memoir + manifesto
arguing for a technological future that serves our communities instead of
one that is used for surveillance, warfare, and the centralization of power
by Silicon Valley.

Dr. Gebru holds a bachelor’s, master’s, and PhD in electrical engineering
from Stanford University.

“We are honored to have Dr. Gebru deliver this year’s Miles Conrad
Lecture,” said Jason Griffey, NISO’s Director of Strategic Initiatives.
“The award recognizes her critical work on the dangers of biases in AI as
the information community grapples with ethics and rapidly advancing
technologies. We look forward to hearing her views about the opportunities
and risks inherent in the use of AI in an imperfect world.”

The 2025 NISO Plus Baltimore conference will take place in person on
February 10–12 at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront. For more information,
please visit https://niso.plus.

About NISO

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discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
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