Cars That Think
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.
Cars That Think
MARCH 1, 2022
Born in 1890 in Massachusetts, he came to prominence as the nation’s top designer of computers while at MIT In the 1930s. As We May Think Bush didn’t foresee the technical means by which vast amount of information could be stored electronically but he correctly predicted in 1945 that radical miniaturization of information was on the horizon.
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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). Should revenue-generating assets like online stores be shut down, or continue to operate under someone else’s guidance? Store the plan in a secure location, either in digital or paper form.
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MAY 17, 2023
Best known as a robotics researcher, academic, and entrepreneur, Brooks is also an authority on AI: he directed the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT until 2007, and held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford before that. He’s also turned it into a book. And half the time, it’s completely wrong.”
Cars That Think
MARCH 11, 2023
Electricity is a commodity that is bought and sold, and yet unlike most other commodities, it cannot easily be stored. Parts of this article are adapted from the author’s new book, Age of Auto Electric ( MIT Press, 2022). Once electricity is generated and passes into the grid, it is typically used almost immediately.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 22, 2022
Its story began a decade earlier, in 1997, at the MIT Media Lab , when it was created by two students, J.D. They came up with some early products that targeted shelf labels for brick-and-mortar retail stores and also for signage. Albert and Barrett Comiskey, who were inspired by their professor Joseph Jacobson.
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APRIL 20, 2024
In 1965, Larry Roberts, then at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory , connected one computer in Massachusetts to another in California over a telephone line. Kahn postponed his planned return to MIT and continued to work on expanding this network. Bob Kahn served on the MIT faculty from 1964 to 1966. 1962 and Ph.D.
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