Events

Anthropology • History • Science, Technology, and Society   Alyssa Paredes Department of Anthropology University of Michigan   Monday, Feb. 13 4:00PM-5:30PM Hayden Library, Nexus 14S-130 Questions? Please email sts-events@mit.edu.   Bananapocalypse: Externalities in the Making of Plantation Capitalism Plantation regimes and transnational commodity trading confront a serious challenge in the 21st century. For every […]

From danah boyd's website: danah boyd is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology and society, with an eye to how structural inequities shape and are shaped by technologies. She is currently conducting a multi-year ethnographic study of the US […]

“Humanity is at a turning point with AI,” says Geoffrey Hinton, known as the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence. The cognitive scientist and computer scientist who designed machine learning algorithms at Google and recently quit after 10 years will address his concerns about accelerated progress of deep learning and its potential impact on humanity. AI is […]

You are kindly invited to the Panel Discussion (Dec 5th) and Exhibit (Dec 4-13th) on the "Paradigm Shift in Infectious Diseases.” Please sign up for the panel discussion at this link: https://libcal.mit.edu/calendar/events/infectiousdisease_paradigmshift Speakers and Panelists:  Prof. Joel Gill, Boston University https://www.bu.edu/cfa/about/contact-directions/directory/joel-christian-gill/ Prof. John Durant, MIT       https://sts-program.mit.edu/people/sts-faculty/john-durant/ Prof. Edward Nardell, Harvard University       https://ghsm.hms.harvard.edu/faculty-staff/edward-anthony-nardell Prof. Robin Scheffler, […]

Arthur Miller Lecture in Science and Ethics: “Will Digital Intelligence Replace Biological Intelligence?” by Geoffrey Hinton December 11 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm “Humanity is at a turning point with AI,” says Geoffrey Hinton, known as the Godfather of Artificial Intelligence. The cognitive scientist and computer scientist who designed machine learning algorithms at Google […]

On Monday, February 5, 2024, at 4pm, Assoc. Professor in Sociology, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra from the U of C, SD will speak at 4pm in the Nexus, Hayden Library, 14S-130 on the topic of "Market/Making: Knowledge, Technology, and the Production of Social Worlds."  The talk is jointly sponsored talk with STS, Anthropology and History.  Here's […]

MIT Morningside Academy for Design invites you to a book launch and panel discussion with   Hugo Palmarola, Eden Medina, Pedro Ignacio Alonso (eds.)  How to Design a Revolution: The Chilean Road to Design  REGISTER HERE Monday, March 11, 5:30 p.m. MIT 9-255  website A video of the museum installation Cómo diseñar una revolución will follow the panel discussion. The video installation will run in […]

Join us on Mon., April 8, '24  at 4-5:30pm in MIT's Hayden Library, 14-130 The Nexus This talk analyzes the role of U.S. empire in the creation of South American markets for tabulating equipment and early mainframe computers. Grounded in two major programs—the 1940 Census of the Americas and the 1960s Latin American Free Trade […]