Recent News
Jul 18 2018 | AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair
By James Zou and Londa Schiebinger
When Google Translate converts news articles written in Spanish into English, phrases referring to women often become ‘he said’ or ‘he wrote’. Software designed to warn people using Nikon cameras when the person they are photographing seems to be blinking tends to...
Jul 16 2018
Professor Thomas S. Mullaney's new book The Chinese Typewriter has just been awarded the Lewis Mumford Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Technics, by the Media Ecology Association.
Jul 5 2018 | Secret Cures of Slaves People, Plants, and Medicine in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World
Podcast on New Books Network with Lance Turner.
Jun 26 2018 | La del agua, otra crisis que los candidatos ignoran
CIUDAD DE MEXICO (apro).- Hasta ahora los candidatos presidenciales, cuando no se están atacando, protestan contra la corrupción, la inseguridad y Trump, pero no han puesto mayor atención a un problema clave que azota a la nación desde mucho antes que los cárteles de la droga o los presidentes...
Jun 25 2018 | A firsthand look at the horrors of immigration detention
By Allyson Hobbs and Ana Raquel Minian
