MIT Develops Open Source Tool to Support Spontaneous Online Conversations — Campus Technology

Researchers at MIT’s Sloan School of Management have developed a new software platform for having private, on-the-spot conversations online. Called Minglr, the open source tool is designed to replicate the kinds of interactions people might have before and after meetings, in the lobby during breaks of conferences and around the office coffee machine, in aContinue reading “MIT Develops Open Source Tool to Support Spontaneous Online Conversations — Campus Technology”

What happens when an algorithm gets it wrong | MIT Technology Review

In the first of a four-part series on FaceID, host Jennifer Strong explores the false arrest of Robert Williams by police in Detroit. The odd thing about Willliams’s ordeal wasn’t that police used face recognition to ID him—it’s that the cops told him about it. There’s no law saying they have to. The episode starts…Continue reading “What happens when an algorithm gets it wrong | MIT Technology Review”