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Thursday, January 26
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Health records are arguably the most valuable and most personal kinds of connected information about a person, and are valuable sources for medical research, social justice, machine learning, and big data, as well as directly related to 5-20% of the activity in terms of GDP. Adrian Gropper, MD will discuss his research into patient-centered and patient-controlled health records on the Internet.
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with Hyperloop One General Counsel Marvin Ammori
Tuesday, February 14
at 12pm
Marvin Ammori will discuss the challenges and opportunities for crafting a new legal framework to govern the next generation mass transportation concept known "Hyperloop" - levitating vehicles zooming passengers through vacuum tubes at 760 miles an hour known as "Hyperloop" is to become a reality, it will require a new framework to govern the deployment of hyperloop systems.
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with Dan Greene, Postdoctoral Researcher with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England
Tuesday, January 31
at 12pm
Dan Greene explores how poverty comes to be understood as a ‘digital divide’ and how that framework changes the nature and purpose of public institutions in an era of skyrocketing inequality.
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with Sandra Braman, Abbott Professor of Liberal Arts at Texas A&M University
Tuesday, February 21
at 12pm
Sandra Braman discusses her research into how policy-makers thought and think about policy issues while addressing technical problems. Findings include basic design criteria that serve as constitutional principles; interactions between human and non-human users; tensions between geo- and network-political citizenship; early internationalization; and what Internet designers can teach us about decision-making under conditions of instability in everything from the design subject on.
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ICYMI:
Catch up on our most recent events!
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with Kishonna L. Gray, Founder of the Critical Gaming Lab at Eastern Kentucky University
It is important to examine the digital manifestations of misogynoir – or what it means to be a Woman of Color existing in the hegemonic spaces of digital technology. In this talk Kishonna L. Gray discusses the frameworks of Black Digital Feminism, useful to not only examine how structures influence practices, but also tools that have been implemented to resist such hegemony.
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From the event Transparency and Freedom of Information in the Digital Age, November 17, 2011 at Harvard Law School.
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Other Events on Our Radar
1/12, Cambridge: EMW Drink Salon: Disability
1/13, Boston: Body Politic Exhibit Reception
1/13, London: Caleb Harper @ MIT Better World
1/17-1/18, Harvard: Harvard DataFest 2017
1/23, NYC: Workshop: Work, Labor, and Automation
1/24, Boston: Transitions in the U.S. Democracy: The Presidential Inauguration, Policies, and Protests
1/25, MIT: Building a Toolbox for Nonviolent Resistance with Jamila Raqib
1/26, Andover: Libraries in a Post-Truth World
2/9, Harvard: "Thank You for Playing" Film Screening & Discussion
2/16, MIT: Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society
5/19, NYC: Workshop: Propaganda and Media Manipulation
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