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Tech for Social Good: PKG Community Conversations
Tuesday, September 24, 2019 – 6:00pmMIT Stata Center, R&D Commons, 4th FloorJoin the conversation! In a continuing series organized by the PKG Public Service Center, come meet local organizations that are exploring ways that computational tech (AI, machine learning, data science, etc) can be used for the social good and restricting tech’s potential for contributing to inequality and injustice.…
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November Actions: Special Screening on the 50th Anniversary of MIT’s Historical Protests
Wednesday, November 6, 2019 – 7:00pm6-120Join us for this exciting screening of the fully restored film by pioneering filmmaker Richard Leacock on the 50th anniversary of one of MIT’s most significant campus protests in its history occurring between November 3rd and 5th, 1969. The screening will be followed by Q&A with participants of…
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Click here for an archived video of this program. Congress is currently debating a discretionary budget which spends more than 50% of our income tax dollars on endless wars, nuclear weapons upgrades, foreign military bases, and other military accounts. Financing this requires cutting major programs funding human and…
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Towards A User-Friendly City: Understanding the Opioid Epidemic and Urban Planning Response
Friday, May 17, 2019 – 4:30pm5-134For the last year, University of Paris-Est Professor Elsa Vivant has conducted an ethnographic study of the human impact of the opioid crisis in Boston area. As many know, six people die in the state of Massachusetts daily due to complications with opioid addiction. This is only a…
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This conference aims to present the police state in China, where over one million innocent Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been forced into concentration camps since 2016; explore China’s use of technology to escalate the crisis by conducting digital, biological, and cyber surveillance on the Uyghur; introduce…