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STEM Week event encourages students to see themselves in science and technology careers

MIT hosts kickoff event of Massachusetts STEM Week — a statewide virtual celebration of K-12 education.
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Media Lab Research Takes Flight

Space research, led by a diverse team of women scientists, will be presented at this year's AIAA Ascend Conference.
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Americans speak more than 1,300 languages. This artist wants to capture them all

People speak as many as 800 languages in New York alone. With A Counting, Ekene Ijeoma aims to represent every single one.
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Episode 80: Bias, Algorithms, and Criminal Justice

Chelsea Barabas shares her thoughts on these topics in an episode of the Philosophical Disquisitions podcast.
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Episode 89: Chelsea Barabas

Joshua B. Hoe interviews Chelsea Barabas of MIT about criminal justice monitoring, surveillance, and algorithms
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This audio portrait of the 2020 census asks: Whose voices really count?

Poetic Justice head Ekene Ijeoma talks to NPR about his work, from Deconstructed Anthems to A Counting.
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Using space technology to advance justice on Earth with Danielle Wood, director of the Space Enabled research group at MIT

Listen to Danielle Wood speak in a new episode of the Stories of Transformation podcast.
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Danielle Wood quoted in Space News: How the space sector is responding to the killing of George Floyd

If the space industry wants to become more diverse, it must come to terms with how racially motivated decisions shape the country, Wood said
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AI researchers say scientific publishers help perpetuate racist algorithms

“This is why we keep seeing race science emerging time and again," writes Chelsea Barabas. "It’s because publishers publish it."
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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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Technical Flaws of Pretrial Risk Assessments Raise Grave Concerns

By Chelsea Barabas, Karthik Dinakar, and Colin DoyleTwenty-seven prominent  researchers from MIT,  Harvard, Princeton, NYU,&nbs...
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Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen chosen for TIME 100 Next 2019

Congratulations to Joy Buolamwini and Amanda Nguyen for being recognized in the "Advocates" category.
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Artificial intelligence can be biased. Here’s what you should know.

Joy Buolamwini talks to Frontline about bias in AI, and what can be done about it.
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AI: More than Human exhibition challenges our preconceptions

An exhibition at the Barbican in London features work from OpenAg, the Mediated Matter group, Joy Buolamwini, and more.
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Algorithm using racist drug war data to determine Missourians’ freedom

Pretrial risk assessments draw from “deeply flawed data" generated from arrest and conviction records, say researchers.
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Fortune's 40 Under 40

Joy Buolamwini has been selected as one of Fortune Magazine’s “40 Under 40.”
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Face recognition researcher fights Amazon over biased AI

Joy Buolamwini talks to the AP about her work on algorithmic bias.
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On recent research auditing commercial facial analysis technology

An open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
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AI experts question Amazon’s facial-recognition technology

More than three dozen AI researchers have signed an open letter asking Amazon to stop selling Rekognition to law enforcement agencies.
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Women built the tech industry. Then they were pushed out.

Now activists are working to bring women, and feminism, back to Silicon Valley.
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A crucial step for averting AI disasters

Tech companies working on artificial intelligence find that a diverse staff can help avoid biased algorithms that cause public embarrassment
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‘Uncovering Hidden Pathways’ focuses on future minority youth in STEM

Jaleesa Trapp led a discussion at her alma mater about antiracist approaches to engaging young people from marginalized groups in STEM.
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Artificial intelligence has a problem with gender and racial bias. Here’s how to solve it.

Joy Buolamwini’s essay is featured in the Optimists issue of Time, guest-edited by Ava DuVernay.
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Supposedly ‘fair’ algorithms can perpetuate discrimination

"We must provide a mechanism for civil society to be informed and engaged in the way in which algorithms are used."
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Amazon is pushing facial technology that a study says could be biased

Amazon’s system had more difficulty identifying the gender of female and darker-skinned faces than similar services from IBM and Microsoft.
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Earthrise, 50 years later

Thoughts from the Media Lab's Space Enabled group and Space Exploration Initiative