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Why this deep-sea explorer thinks diversity is so important for science

To oceanographer Katy Croff Bell, the seas’ uncharted depths are full of opportunities to engage women and people of color in science.
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Advance human wellbeing by developing new ways to communicate, understand, and respond to emotion
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How To Become A: AI and Computer Scientist

Jaleesa Trapp talks about her career path, how technology encodes the values of its designers, and the importance of play.
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Exploring how social networks can influence our lives in business, health, governance, and technology adoption and diffusion
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Creating technology for social change
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PAL: Project on Affinities + Language

The Project on Affinities and Language (PAL) is designed to help us understand what happens in a child’s brain when they engage with thei...
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Embracing neurodiversity to better understand autism

Using personalized, naturalistic experiments, the Gabrieli lab is pioneering new approaches to neurodevelopmental differences.
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Black engineers see both pride and exclusion in the return of human spaceflight

Like too many science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields, the aerospace sector in the US is populated mainly by white people.
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Foster innovation, ethical tech with diverse teams

Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.
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Neurodiverse curiosity, with Kristy Johnson

“To really understand curiosity, we need new metrics, or new ways of thinking, or both."
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How to foster innovation in your workplace

Here are proven thought starters for creating a business culture that nurtures disruptive change
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Opinion | The fast-evolving ethical conundrums of biotechnology

Our capacity to re-engineer the biological world raises questions that need answers before it gets too late
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The Clubhouse Network

The Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities around the ...
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Jaleesa Trapp shakes things up in the classroom and in computing

The PhD student and former high school teacher aims to study the ways young people of color interact with technology.
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The Root 100 2019

The Root 100 is our annual list of the most influential African Americans, ages 25 to 45.
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An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents

Yuan, Yuan, Ahmad Alabdulkareem, and Alex Pentland. "An interpretable approach for social network formation among heterogeneous agents." Nature Communications 9.1 (2018): 4704.
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Rosalind Picard: Affective Computing, Emotion, Privacy, and Health | Artificial Intelligence Podcast

In an interview with MIT research scientist Lex Fridman, Rosalind Picard discusses affective computing, privacy, diversity in tech, and more