Fox Harrell presents outcomes from his National Science Foundation-supported Advanced Identity Representation project, which helped reveal social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power.
Podcast, Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
“If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves.”
Video and podcast: Michael Taussig, “Mooning Texas”
Introduced by Prof. Ian Condry, Global Studies and Languages, MIT.
Video, podcast and summary: “Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016”
How hateful, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion, its impact on the daily lives of Muslim-Americans, and strategies for combating it.
Podcast: Lisa Glebatis Perks, “Media Marathoning and Affective Involvement”
Lisa Glebatis Perks draws from discourse gathered from over 100 marathoners to describe some of marathoners’ most common emotional experiences, including anger, empathy, parasocial mourning, nostalgia, and regret.
Video, podcast, and summary: “Excellence in Teaching”
What separates a good teacher from a great one? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive–all honored teachers–will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn.
Podcast: “A Conversation with Guy Maddin”
With William Uricchio, Guy Maddin discusses why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion.
