A half-day launch event for the new Center for Ethics, Society and Computing (ESC, pronounced "Escape") will feature a number of prominent panelists.

Julia Angwin, founder and editor-in-chief of The Markup, a nonprofit accountability journalism organization and publication focused on investigating the tech industry.

danah boyd, technology and social media scholar, partner researcher at Microsoft Research, founder and president of Data & Society Research Institute, and a visiting professor at New York University.

André Brock, associate professor of literature, media and communication at Georgia Tech, is the author of the forthcoming book "Distributed Blackness: African American Cybercultures."

Marc DaCosta, co-founder and chairman of Enigma, an open data infrastructure company. He is also a software artist focusing on data, privacy and identity.

Jen Gennai, lead for responsible innovation at Google, the group responsible for implementing Google's AI principles.

Holly Okonkwo, assistant professor of cultural anthropology at Purdue University, studies the culture of the computing industry and the experience of women technologists of color, most recently in Africa.

Monroe Price, professor, founder and former director of the Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, focuses on the freedom of expression and media technology in international contexts.