Cars That Think

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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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. Do they need a different classification for legal, political, and social purposes? These types of post-mortem interactions aren’t just feasible with today’s technology, they’re already here.

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JULY 21, 2021

But it took more than a year and scores of meetings for IBM's contract and legal teams to authorize the terms. This article is based on excerpts from IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (MIT Press, 2019). The sales team I managed arranged to sell 6,000 PCs to American Standard, a maker of bathroom fixtures.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group has entered into an agreement to acquire Terrafugia, a US-based company developing practical flying cars.Terrafugia was founded in 2006 by five MIT graduates; since then, the company has delivered a number of working prototypes. Terrafugia’s vision for the future is the TF-X.

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OCTOBER 24, 2009

Thirteen scientists and land use experts conclude in a new paper that an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules used to measure compliance with carbon limits for bioenergy could undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging deforestation. Their paper is published in the 23 Oct.

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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. She reminds engineers that default settings are not neutral, that convenient datasets may be rife with ethical and legal problems , and that benchmarks aren’t always assessing the right things. million views to date.

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APRIL 21, 2023

Providing free access to books and legal decisions Much of Zittrain’s work looks at ways to make information more widely available. Another is the Open Casebook series, a joint project of MIT Press and the Harvard Law School Library that offers open-source digital legal textbooks for free. copyrights.

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

A new study by a team from the University of Pennsylvania and MIT suggests it will be easier for cities to reduce CO 2 emissions coming from residential energy use rather than from local transportation. This reduction will happen mostly thanks to better building practices, not greater housing density.

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