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SUMMARY:Swiss STS Meeting 2014: Collecting, organizing, trading big data
DESCRIPTION:\n\n> Swiss STS Meeting 2014 website\n\nSince the first Swiss S
 TS Meeting in Zürich in 1999, several conferences have been organized with 
 the Swiss Association for the Study of Science, Technology and Society (STS
 -CH), like the STS Summer School 2001 in Lausanne, the EASST conference 200
 6 in Lausanne, the Swiss STS Meeting 2008 ScienceFutures in Zurich, the Sci
 ence Going Neuro Conference 2010 in Basel. STS-CH intends to encourage and 
 promote the social, historical and philosophical study of the sciences in S
 witzerland.\n\nThe next Swiss STS Meeting, to be held 20-22 February 2014 a
 t the University of Lausanne, is devoted to the subject of big data, of sci
 entific projects based on the production, management and analysis of very l
 arge quantities of data. Creating biobanks, statistical processing of behav
 ior and ways of life of large cohorts, computerized modeling of cerebral fu
 nctioning or human genome sequencing are research practices that a priori s
 eem to bear witness to new ways of doing science. They raise novel question
 s as to their impact and the concrete applications they promise both in soc
 ial and sanitary politics as well as in the development of new\n\ntechnolog
 ies. This meeting attempts to scrutinize the notion of big and its effects 
 (conceptual, rhetoric and practical) in the human and life sciences through
  two lines of thought: Does the processing of large quantities of data give
  way to more reliable, useful, efficient, convincing and implementable expl
 anations or does it generate new problems? How do the fabrication modes and
  tools of big data differ from the ones employed in the production of atlas
 es, encyclopedias, censuses or other collections of information in the 19th
  and 20th centuries?\n\nWe invite participants to discuss the concrete stag
 es of the fabrication and usage of big data, and the problems each of these
  steps might raise: collecting, discriminating, sharing, sorting, touching,
  seeing, visualizing, choosing algorithms, conserving, standardizing, apply
 ing, etc. The meeting intends to encourage contributions that adopt a histo
 rical, ethnographical, critical and reflexive perspective and that suggest 
 comparison of ways of collecting and analyzing large quantities of data.\n\
 nThe Swiss STS Meeting will last three days, and will host plenary sessions
 , roundtables, and paper sessions. It proposes to bring together keynote sp
 eakers of the field and young STS scholars (PhD candidates and postdoc). As
 ide of the Meeting's main topic, colleagues may propose to present work fro
 m other areas of interest, for example about reproductive technologies, psy
 chiatry and brain sciences, scientific promises, history of devices, etc. \
 n\nKeynote speakers:\n\n 	Anne Beaulieu, University of Groningen 	Rebecca L
 emov, Harvard University 	Sabina Leonelli, University of Exeter 	Bruno Stra
 sser, University of Geneva 	Aaro Tupasela, University of Helsinki \n\nRound
 table speakers:\n\n 	Thomas Heinis, Data-Intensive Applications and Systems
  Laboratory - EPFL, Lausanne 	Vincent Mooser, Lausanne Institutional Bioban
 k - CHUV, Lausanne 	Patrice Poiraud, Smarter Analytics & Big Data Initiativ
 e - IBM France 	Jean-Henry Morin, UNIGE & ThinkServices, Geneva 	Boi Faltin
 gs, Social Media Lab & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - EPFL, Lausanne 
 	Stéphane Grumbach, INRIA & IXXI, Rhône-Alpes Complex Systems Institute \n\
 nOrganizing committee:\n\n 	Marc AUDETAT (Interface sciences - société, UNI
 L) 	Emilie BOVET (Institut des sciences sociales - ISS, UNIL) 	Nolwenn BÜHL
 ER (University of Zurich) 	Gabriel DORTHE (Inst. Géo. et Durabilité, UNIL; 
 CETCOPRA, Uni. Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne) 	Olivier GLASSEY (Observatoire Sc
 ience, Politique et Société - OSPS, UNIL) 	Christel GUMY (ISS, UNIL), Alain
  KAUFMANN (Interface sciences - société, UNIL) 	Alain KAUFMANN (Interface S
 ciences-Société, UNIL) 	Jelena MARTINOVIC (IUHMSP, CHUV) 	Martina MERZ (Uni
 versity of Lucerne) 	Pierre-Nicolas OBERHAUSER (ISS, UNIL) 	Francesco PANES
 E (ISS, UNIL & IUHMSP, CHUV) 	Vincent PIDOUX (ISS, UNIL) 	Michael POSSE (IS
 S, UNIL) 	Nicholas STÜCKLIN (ISS, UNIL). 
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