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Start of Berman's crusade: racial slur "kafir" used as LCSH.
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A column from the Notes section of the Seattle Review of Books
The company recently filed a patent on using social network data to influence lending decisions. God help us all.
Corporations are increasingly relying on algorithms to make business decisions and that raises new legal questions.
Algorithms are producing profiles of you. What do they say? You probably don’t have the right to know
The ethics of archiving stuff off the web w/o consent.
A couple of weeks ago I took part in ‘The Future of Women’s Pasts’ at the University of Leeds, a one day conference that brought together archivists, researchers and activists to reflec…
Vonnegut isn’t. Neither is David Foster Wallace. Nor is Michael Cunningham, the Millers (Henry and Arthur), Twain, Poe, McCarthy (Cormac, not Mary), Bolaño, Murakami, Beckett, Ginsberg, Marx, Choms…
Preventing discriminatory algorithms is an issue being taken up by computer scientists as well as policy makers, ethicists and legal experts.
The question of our age might turn out to be the reverse of the Turing test: will people become programmable like machines?
“We’re watching you.” This was the warning that the Chicago Police Department gave to more than 400 people on its “Heat List.” The list, an attempt to identify the people most likely to commit violent crime in the city, was created with a predictive algorithm that focused on factors including, per the Chicago Tribune, “his or her acquaintances and their arrest histories – and where any of those associates have been shot in the past.”
The plan made me feel dishonest and creepy, so it took me a long time to send my novel out under a man’s name. But each time I read a study about unconscious bias, I got a little closer to trying it.
Gerontologist Debbie Dodds developed a tablet-based workshop program with the Santa Cruz Public Libraries, CA, for people with early-stage memory loss. She and library representatives will present on the pilot at LJ’s all-day virtual event The Digital Shift this October 14. In the run-up to the conference, LJ caught up with Dodd to learn more.