Rites and Rights Saeed A. Khan, Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History, Politics, and Culture, Wayne State University Alaa Murabit, Founder of The Voice of Libyan Women, UN SDG Global Advocate & High-Level Commissioner With a US presidential candidate proposing a ban on Muslims entering the US, Islam has […]
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liveblog by Alexis, Sam Klein, Natalie, and myself Ethan Zuckerman, Director, MIT Center for Civic Media moderates. Conducting research on adults who have sex with children is virtually impossible due to ethical and legal restrictions. The advancement of technologies like robots and virtual reality has opened the door to exploring […]
Live blog by Sam Klein, Natalie, and myself. Genetics How do you innovate in a field of massive potential and risk? When it comes to genetically engineering living things, most of the technology being developed happens behind closed doors. How do we change the perception of science and genetic engineering […]
With bunnie huang, Author, Hacking the Xbox: An Introduction to Reverse Engineering and Edward Snowden. Liveblog by Sam Klein, Erhardt Graeff, and myself. Introduction and overview from Snowden This is my first time giving an academic talk, and I think it’s the first time a US exile is presenting research […]
Liveblog by Sam Klein and myself Joi (director of the Media Lab), Opening Research is forbidden when it won’t get peer reviewed, you’ll be ridiculed, your lab won’t get any new students. Academic freedom is diminishing. We’re not killed any more for the things we say and do (mostly). But […]