With a focus on the Miller Lecture’s mission to explore the humanistic, social, legal, and cultural dimensions of scientific and technological developments, the event committee is producing a panel discussion featuring leaders in identifying many of the social complexities and challenges that have arisen with computation and especially with artificial intelligence and machinery learning. PANELISTS: […]

Contemporary democratic elections are increasingly technology intensive. With anxieties about the technological integrity of both American and foreign elections at an all-time high, how can researchers, policymakers, and publics better understand how technological systems are implicated in election planning, infrastructure, security, and maintenance? The MIT programs in Anthropology, History, and Science, Technology, and Society invites […]

From Sheri Fink's website: Sheri Fink is the author of the New York Times bestselling book, Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown, 2013) about choices made in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. She is a correspondent at the New York Times, where her and her colleagues' stories on the West Africa Ebola […]