by Editor | Dec 3, 2015 | Everything else
by David A. Mindell First published on historynewsnetwork.org David A. Mindell is Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing at MIT. This article is excerpted from Our Robots, Ourselves, published...
by Editor | Sep 5, 2014 | Everything else
Author Name, ProPublica. July 3, 2014, 9 a.m. Many sites (including ProPublica) track user behavior using a variety of invisible third-party software. This means any time you visit a web page, you’re likely sharing data about your online habits, from clicks to...
by Editor | Nov 16, 2013 | Education
by Marian Wang ProPublica, Nov. 11, 2013, 12:53 p.m. James Garland was president of Miami University — a public university in Ohio — for a decade, retiring in 2006 after spearheading a number of changes aimed at raising the school’s profile and...
by Editor | Jan 31, 2013 | Education, Society
By Marian Wang, ProPublica, Beckie Supiano and Andrea Fuller, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 4, 2012, 7:22 p.m. This story was co-published with The Chronicle of Higher Education. More than a decade after Aurora Almendral first set foot on her dream college...
by Editor | Dec 17, 2012 | Society
by Dafna Linzer ProPublica, Feb. 23, 2011, 4:31 p.m. This story was co-published with Slate. Last month, I became an American citizen, a tremendous honor and no easy accomplishment, even for a Canadian. After living here for 12 years, I thought I knew everything. Then...