The HBR video series “The New World of Work”, editor in chief Adi Ignatius sits down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to discuss rapidly evolving trends in how we collaborate, especially in a hybrid world. Nadella suggests that technology can create a metaverse that will help bridge the virtual and
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You Are Under Surveillance Right Now | A Talk By Bruce Schneier – American Cryptographer, Computer Security And Privacy Specialist
Bruce Schneier, American cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, will be coming to Google to talk about his new book: “Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World” Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who’s with you. Your online and in-store
Use Of Data Science In Marketing And Ethical, Privacy And Targeting Issues Involved In Data Mining | A Dissection With Shawndra Hill – Facebook Principal Scientist
Facebook principal scientist Shawndra Hill and Professor Olivier Toubia examine the past, present, and future of the role of data science in marketing. Shawndra Hill, a principal scientist at Facebook and a senior lecturer in the Marketing Division, joined Olivier Toubia, Glaubinger Professor of Business and Chair of the Marketing
Next In Data Science: Innovative Applications Of Data Science To A Wide Range Of Disciplines | Part: 1
The Next in Science Series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose innovative, cross-disciplinary research is thematically linked to introduce their work to one another, to fellow scientists, and to nonspecialists from Harvard and the greater Boston area. This year’s program focuses on innovative applications of data science to a
Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics Of AI | A Talk By Avi Goldfarb & Ajay Agrawal
The idea of artificial intelligence – job – killing robots, self – driving cars, and self – managing organizations – captures the imagination, evoking a combination of wonder and dread for those of us who will have to deal with the consequences. But what if it’s not quite so complicated?
Ethical OS: How To Safeguard Users, Communities, Societies, And Companies From New Future Risks?
How can you predict the unintended consequences of the products you are building today? How can you actively safeguard users, communities, societies, and your company from new future risks? As we think about the future of tech at Google, Yoav Schlesinger (Principal for the Tech and Society Solutions Lab at
Edge Of Infectious Diseases, Nanotechnology, Telecommunications, Big Data And Public Health | A Talk By Professor Rachel Mckendry Followed By Q&A Session
Infectious diseases rank among the gravest threats to human health alongside global warming and terrorism. New strains continue to evolve every year and can spread rapidly. The consequences can be devastating. The 1918 Spanish flu killed an estimated 50 million people. Today HIV infects 34 million people and the recent
The Inherent Biases In Algorithms: Everything That Can Go Wrong And The People Who Fix Them
Recent years have seen an eruption of concern about machine learning. When the systems we attempt to teach don’t do what we want or what we expect, ethical and potentially existential risks emerge. In this talk, Brian Christian discusses the inherent biases in algorithms and the varying complexities of the
Implications Of The Biases That Have Shaped Society In The Past (Or Shape It Today), On How AI Systems Work – Or Fail To Work Followed By Q&A
The datasets on which AI technologies are trained to carry out a task reflect society, and can contain the biases that were embedded in processes, relationships, or structures at the point of data collection. When this data is used to develop AI, the resulting systems reflect back the social and
Digital Technology For The Future Of The Planet: Lives, Society, And The Physical Environment
Digital technology is becoming an indispensable and crucial component of our lives, society and the environment. We present a framework for computing in the context of problems facing the planet. The framework has a number of goals: an optimal digital infrastructure, sensing and optimizing with a global world model, reliably
The Boundaries Of AI: What Artificial Intelligence Can And Cannot Do – Followed By Q&A Session
The last decade has seen exciting developments in AI – and AI researchers are tackling some fundamental challenges to develop it further AI research seeks to understand what intelligence is, and then recreate this through computer systems that can automatically perform tasks that require some level of reasoning or intelligence
Big Data Visualization: Photography As A Creative Research Tool
What can we learn about the societies from analyzing and visualizing billions of photographs and video shared on social networks? Can we use visualization to explore massive visual data sets without using predefined research questions? Can we analyze big data without using numbers? In this presentation, Dr. Manovich will discuss
