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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Wong describes the new digital afterlife industry in a chapter of her new book from MIT Press, We the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age. So your book takes on a much broader topic, the datafication of our daily lives and the human rights implications of that phenomenon. Wong: Thanks for having me. Are they people?

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JULY 21, 2021

IBM's essential contributions were to position the technology as suitable for wide use and to set a technology standard. IBM's strategic error in not retaining rights to the operating system went far beyond that $27 billion; it meant that Microsoft would set the standards for the PC operating system. Gerstner Jr.

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OCTOBER 10, 2023

This article is adapted from the author’s new book , We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age (MIT Press, 2023). Microsoft reportedly decided against turning this idea into a product, but the company didn’t stop because of legal or rights-based reasons. The familiar walls of your bedroom briefly flicker in front of you.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Joy Buolamwini ‘s AI research was attracting attention years before she received her PhD from the MIT Media Lab in 2022. In the talk, Buolamwini, who is Black, showed that standard facial detection systems didn’t recognize her face unless she put on a white mask. million views to date. Do you still feel that way?

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