Fostering Ethical Thinking in Computing
New case studies series examines social, ethical, and policy challenges of present-day computing activities.
Terri Park | MIT Schwarzman College of Computing
March 2, 2021
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For decades, Sherry Turkle has shown how we remake ourselves in the mirror of our machines. Here, she illuminates our present search for authentic connection in a time of uncharted challenges.…
The STS Program is pleased to announce the L. Dennis Shapiro (1955) Graduate Fellowship in the History of African American Experience of Technology, thanks to a generous gift from MIT alum…
COVIDCalls: Biomedicine in the Archive with Joanna Radin & Robin Wolfe Scheffler
LINK TO PODCAST: EP #215 – 02.04.2021 – Biomedicine in the Archive with Joanna Radin & Robin Wolfe Scheffler…
MIT historian of finance Will Deringer talks about what he learned from his time as a Blackstone analyst, Michael Milken and early spreadsheet programs, the South Sea Bubble and the many…
Prof. Dave Kaiser’s book, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (Univ Chicago Press, 2020), is featured in Physics World: The best of physics in books, TV and film in 2020.…
Prof. David Kaiser’s, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (Univ Chicago Press, 2020), is listed as a book that stood out in 2020.
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A coronavirus vaccine can’t come at the expense of fighting the virus now
Government investment in a cancer vaccine had drawbacks
Washington Post
by Prof. Robin Scheffler
The ink is still…