I think the most interesting thing here is not some fancy new technology. It’s actually in the integration, and in the conversation, and in thinking about things like what we can actually build right now.
Today I want to tell you about one particular project, and especially the approach that we took to creating it. So why am I speaking at a homemade event when I work at a huge corporation? I think you’ll see that my team tends to operate in a way that’s pretty scrappy, experimental, collaborative. And this particular project happens to be a tool that other people have used to create a lot of homemade projects.
We don’t have an unlimited number of innovations to keep pushing the hockey stick shape of growth forward. Each time we innovate and we push the end further ahead in time, it shortens the amount of time in total that we have to address complexity and problems. So this is…this is not good. I’m just gonna say it, this is not good.
What then shall we do? Some reforms are not difficult to envisage. We must purge our vocabulary, we must clean up our language to say what we mean.
When we invoke the ideals and practices of the humanities, there is no assurance…that they humanize.
The explosion of science and technology has transformed not only our universities but after Descartes and Leibniz the very status of knowledge and of truth.
Our topic today is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which is also called the FISC or the FISA Court. The judges who sit on this court are hand-picked by the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court; that’s currently Justice Roberts. The FISA Court meets in secret, and has a limited public docket. And until recently it had almost no public records of its decisions.
This is the second day of our conference on governing algorithms and we’ve already been treated to two outstanding presentations by Bob Tarjan and Claudia Perlich, with insights into what…well, a little bit into what algorithms do. And today we continue to explore the social, philosophical, ethical, legal significance of algorithms.
So how did this start? Actually all of us—Solon, Sophie, and many other fellows and research, not just at PRG, the Information Law Institute, but also at MCC—we’ve been studying computation, automation, and control in different forms for quite a long time. But it was only at the end of last summer really that we realized that there’s this new notion of the algorithm gaining currency.
Carl Malamud: Internet Talk Radio, flame of the Internet. Malamud: This is Geek of the week. We’re talking to Scott Bradner. He’s a consultant on the staff of Harvard University, he’s Area Director in the Internet Engineering Task Force for Operational Requirements, and has also been named in the special interim area looking at the question …read the full transcript.
Two out of three 8th graders in this country cannot read or do math at grade level. We are not preparing our kids for what the future holds. Read more →
We're here today to start a new conversation about the world of chefs and cooks, between the world of chefs and cooks, and you the delegates and influencers and people here at the World Bank. The reason we're here is to find ways to work together to build a food system that feeds everyone, every day, everywhere. Read more →
I think it would be interesting if the President had to be a minister for a day and actually engaged with people's spiritual bankruptcy, and think about, "Do I want to solve this by lying to them with another myth, or do I want to help them confront the truth?" Read more →
Even if [the media] are going to talk about a fine art show in Paris, they still fall back on those same old phrases, which is, "You're not going to find sailors here!" Read more →
[A]ll these hidden infrastructural and material costs go into the stuff that we just use very very quickly. We just kind of consume them, we don’t think about them, we just want to go on with our lives. When you start actually sort of picking away, looking at it all, you realize how shocking it is. Read more →