Jessie G Taft
DL Seminar | Alondra Nelson - I Contain Multitudes
By Willy Lin | MS Student, Cornell Tech Voluntarily supplied consumer data is entering modern industry in droves. With it comes extreme...
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Jessie G Taft
Sep 9, 20193 min
DL Seminar | Private Companies and Scholarly Infrastructure
By Xiran Sun | MS Student, Cornell Tech At the Digital Life Seminar on September 5 2019, DLI Postdoctoral Fellow Jake Goldenfein...
Jessie G Taft
May 6, 20193 min
DL Seminar | The Paradox of Automation as Anti-Bias Intervention
Post by Iris Zhang | MS Student, Cornell Tech Talk by Ifeoma Ajunwa | School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University A...
Jessie G Taft
May 1, 20193 min
DL Seminar | Optimizing Technology for Human Beings
By Zhengqi Li | MS Student, Cornell Tech Based on the April 25 Digital Life Seminar talk by Douglas Rushkoff In the current digital age,...
Jessie G Taft
Apr 29, 20193 min
DL Seminar | Team Human: Optimizing Technology for Human Beings (instead of the other way around).
Post by Mohit Chawla | MS Student in Connective Media, Cornell Tech Presentation by Douglas Rushkoff | Bestselling Author, and Professor...
Jessie G Taft
Apr 23, 20195 min
DL Seminar | Studies of Privacy-, Security-, and Abuse-Related Beliefs and Practices
Post by Kriti Singh | MS Student, Cornell Tech Presentation by Sunny Consolvo | User Experience Researcher, Google On April 18, 2019, the...
Jessie G Taft
Apr 17, 20193 min
DL Seminar | Privacy Concerns on Transnational Tech Platforms
By Shaine Leibowitz | MS Student, Cornell Tech Maggie Jack, a PhD candidate at Cornell University, presented “Localization of...
Jessie G Taft
Apr 4, 20193 min
DL Seminar | Saving Languages from Digital Extinction
By Hemanth Kondapalli | MS Student, Cornell Tech Did you know that linguists expect 70 to 90% of languages to be extinct by the end of...
Jessie G Taft
Mar 28, 20196 min
DL Seminar | Security and Ethical Challenges of Big Data
By Congzheng Song and Haojie Zhang | MS Students, Cornell Tech Reflection 1 | Congzheng Song In the era of big data, the Internet of...
Jessie G Taft
Mar 28, 20193 min
DL Seminar | Towards an Ecology of Care for Data-Driven Decision-Making
Debarun Dhar | MS Student, Cornell Tech With all the recent successes and democratization of modern machine learning and data analysis...
Jessie G Taft
Mar 19, 20195 min
DL Seminar | The New Irony of Free Speech
By Bharath Satheesh | MS Student, Cornell Tech Conventional wisdom states that, by dramatically lowering the access barriers to speech,...
Jessie G Taft
Mar 8, 20194 min
DL Seminar | From 'The Artist's Contract' to Smart Contracts
By Yan Ji | PhD Student in Computer Science, Cornell Tech Blockchain technology helps enable processes of automation in the sale of...
Jessie G Taft
Feb 21, 20193 min
DL Seminar | A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries
By Renee Zacharowicz | MS Student in Information Science In his Digital Life Seminar talk on February 14, 2019, Columbia Law School...
Jessie G Taft
Feb 14, 20194 min
DL Seminar | Facial Recognition: Coming to a Street Corner Near You
Blog by Nabeel Seedat | MS Student in Electrical and Computer Engineering We can let the genie out the bottle, but do we need to regulate...
Jessie G Taft
Feb 14, 20194 min
Darwin's Animoji: Histories of Emotion, Animation, and Racism in Everyday Facial Recognition
Blog by Cameron Mine | MS Student in Computer Science The discussion around racism tends to revolve around a few thematic areas:...
Jessie G Taft
Dec 17, 20182 min
DL Seminar | The Ethics of Artificial Ethics Advisors
By Krishna Deepak Maram | PhD Student | Cornell Tech Elizabeth O’Neill (pictured above) recently gave a talk about Ethics Advisors. She...
Jessie G Taft
Dec 5, 20186 min
DL Seminar | The Unknown History of Utopians, Anarchists, & Technologists who Built Cryptocurrency
By Oluseyi Sonaiya | MBA Student | Cornell Tech In November 15, 2018, the Digital Life Seminar series at Cornell Tech played host to...
Jessie G Taft
Nov 13, 20183 min
DL Seminar | Privacy and Equity in Developing Countries
By Natalie Friedman & Julia Narakornpichit | MA Students | Cornell Tech On Thursday, November 8th, we had the pleasure of listening to...
Jessie G Taft
Nov 3, 20182 min
DL Seminar | Techno-Optimistic Smart City Imaginaries: A Patchwork of Four Urban Futures
By Annalisa Choy | Law Student | Cornell Tech Laura Forlano’s work has centered around the following question: “How do you study people,...
Jessie G Taft
Nov 1, 20182 min
DL Seminar | Understanding the Limitations of AI: When Algorithms Fail
By Krishna Deepak Maram | MA Student | Cornell Tech Timnit Gebru (pictured above) recently gave a talk at the DLI seminar titled “Limits...
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