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MLTalks: How Data Killed Facts Jill Lepore in conversation with Andrew Lippman

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MIT Media Lab

by Chia Evers

April 27, 2018

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Tuesday
April 24, 2018
3:00pm — 4:30pm

MLTalks: How Data Killed Facts
Jill Lepore in conversation with Andrew Lippman

Jill Lepore is the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard University. She is also a staff writer at The New Yorker. A prize-winning professor, she teaches classes in evidence, historical methods, humanistic inquiry, and American history. Much of her scholarship explores absences and asymmetries in the historical record, with a particular emphasis on the histories and technologies of evidence and of privacy. As a wide-ranging and prolific essayist, Lepore writes about American history, law, literature, and politics. She is the author of many award-winning books. Her next book, These Truths: A History of the United States, will be published in September 2018.

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