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Data & SocietyD&S fellow Ingrid Burrington spoke at the 2015 Eyeo Festival: It Tends To Annihilate Distance – This is mostly a talk about making maps and staying human while living among killing machines. Topics covered may include rail... Read on Data & SocietyJune 2015 -
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Data & SocietyLaura Hanna discusses the history, practice and values behind The Debt Collective, a budding organization that seeks to challenge the way basic needs are financed and accessed. The Debt Collective's pilot project, dubbed Corint... Read moreMay 2015 -
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Data & SocietyAdam Berenzweig (@madadam) on deep learning, machine perception, and the future of memory: Adam reviews the ongoing revolution in machine learning, focusing on neural networks and machine perception, and presents a short ear... Read moreMay 2015 -
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Data & SocietyAaron Straup Cope (@thisisaaronland) on why the cultural heritage community is jealous of the NSA: Aaron talks about The Pen -- a tool available to visitors of the Cooper Hewitt Museum that allows users to "collect" objects ... Read moreMay 2015 -
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Data & SocietyIs it possible to openly share important raw data sets while preserving the privacy of individuals whose personal information is captured in the data in anonymized form? Numerous recent reports have suggested that it is often p... Read moreApril 2015 -
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Data & SocietyPhil Howard presents his latest research and asks for advice on what to do next. His new book, Pax Technica: How the Internet of Things May Set Us Free or Lock Us Up, is about the impact of IoT on civic engagement. The next pro... Read moreApril 2015 -
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Data & SocietyKate Crawford has suggested that critics of algorithms suffer from a "metaphor gap" in trying to make sense of how algorithmic systems work. In this conversational provocation, Nick Seaver argues that we can usefully think of r... Read moreApril 2015 -
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Tech Policy Lab University of Washington"As policy concerns around intelligent and autonomous systems come to focus increasingly on transparency and usability, the time is ripe for an inquiry into the theater of autonomous systems. When do (and when should) law and p... Read on Tech Policy Lab University of WashingtonApril 2015 -
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Data & SocietyNYPL Labs is an interdisciplinary team working to reposition library collections for the Internet, and to explore new roles and tactics for libraries in a data-driven society. In this talk, Ben Vershbow and Shana Kimball explor... Read moreApril 2015 -
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The Agenda with Steve Paikin"Algorithms are a part of our daily lives, impacting everything from our Internet searches, to our credit scores, healthcare and policing. As they become more ubiquitous, The Agenda asks whether we should allow ourselves to be ... Read on The Agenda with Steve PaikinMarch 2015