When Joy Buolamwini set off for college, her ambitions, she thought, were pretty straightforward. “That experience of putting on something less than human to be seen as human by a machine is what sparked my curiosity,” Buolamwini says, “and led to the term the coded gaze — but also led to research looking at bias in not just computer vision …
Recently an Asian American student from Palo Alto, California, was rejected by 16 out of the 18 top U.S. universities he applied for. However, he added, for a foreign audience, it is very shocking that he was rejected despite a 4.0 GPA, “what is shocking is that with a near-perfect SAT score, he got rejected from many lower rank colleges.” …
Facebook Keeps Data Secret, Letting Conservative Bias Claims Persist Enlarge this image toggle caption Jeff Chiu/AP Jeff Chiu/AP Sen. Roger Wicker hit a familiar note when he announced on Thursday that the Commerce Committee was issuing subpoenas to force the testimony of Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and other tech leaders. Tech platforms like Facebook, the Mississippi Republican said, "disproportionately …
