In this fascinating article from Wired, Aarian Marshall explains how the complexity of computer systems in cars has now resulted in thorny legal issues about intellectual property–the rights of car …
A Fight Over the Right to Repair Cars Turns Ugly
Author: Jessie McCormack
It Could Happen (T)here: Transnational Advocacy Strategies Around Social Media
In this timely article, Amanda Besar, Jennifer Li, and Valentina Vera Quiroz–writing for the Institute for Rebooting Social Media–re-cap the discussions from workshops dedicated to analyzing the interactions between social …
Upcoming Digital Humanities Events
Check out these upcoming Digital Humanities workshops and institutes, on myriad fascinating topics and hosted by various universities and institutions! 1. NYC Digital Humanities Week— February 7-11, 2022 2. Data …
Join us for Jer Thorp’s “Living in Data”– Sept. 22 at 6:30pm!
The MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization and the Mina Rees Library invite you to attend a talk this week by data artist Jer Thorpe. Living in Data Jer …
The Dictatorship of Data
Robert McNamara is remembered as JFK’s and LBJ’s secretary of defense, who was a primary motivator in escalating the Vietnam War. What is less known about McNamara–as discussed in this …
A radical new technique lets AI learn with practically no data
This article from MIT discusses a new paper from University of Waterloo (Ontario), in which researchers suggest that there may be a way to trim down on the number of …
Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself
This article from The New Yorker dives into the longstanding content moderation troubles at Facebook. At heart is the difficulty of balancing a platform that values “free speech,” on the …
Google offers to help others with the tricky ethics of AI
Google is planning to offer new services to tech companies regarding AI ethics, despite having a spotty past itself on such issues. Some services are specific, such as detecting racial …
