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Coral reefs are both icons of biodiversity and global tourist attractions. By combining web-scraped public Instagram data and aerially mapped live coral cover maps across the main Hawaiian Islands,…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Bing Lin, GS Department
Public and International Affairs
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There is thorough research proving the hot-hand notion, or the tendency to believe that a successful streak is likely to lead to further success, as a fallacy in sports. This research disproves the…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Jason Ding, UG '25 Department
Council of Science and Technology
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Pitch tunneling in baseball is when two pitches look the same for most of their trajectory towards home plate, but then move in opposite directions. Pitchers utilize pitch tunneling to try and fool…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Ben Zenker, UG '24 Department
Council of Science and Technology
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For many of us, social media is an integral part of our everyday lives. But the ramifications of social media can go beyond just an unfunny post or angry response; on more than one occasion, social…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Jeffery Chen, UG '25 Department
Technology and Society
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Using a round bat to hit a small round baseball traveling 90+ mph and breaking in unexpected directions is considered the hardest activity in sports. Knowing the speed, break, and location of a pitch…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Atharva Pathak, UG '26 Department
Council on Science and Technology
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In baseball, the goal of the pitcher is to prevent runs. To do so, they must make it difficult for the batter to hit the ball. There are a variety of techniques and methods the pitcher can use to…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Alexander Dreger, UG '25 Department
Council on Science and Technology
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Spray charts are a data visualization used in baseball to describe which area of the field hitters have historically hit the ball to. Hitters have unique hitting tendencies for various reasons (e.g.,…
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May 4th, 2023 Speaker
Senne Michielssen, UG '25 Department
Council on Science and Technology
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An idea that we unfortunately inject ourselves with is “technological determinism” (Paul Adler; L.M. Sacasas) — in a nutshell, what it means is that technology evolves naturally…
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April 27th, 2023 Speaker
Rolando Masis-Obando, GS Department
Neuroscience
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January 27th, 2023 Speaker
Charles Schorin *88 Location
JRR 101
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The digital domain is fast emerging as a new
landscape of global competition and conflict. The benefits of
digitization have been immense, but so have the harms — rampant…
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November 29th, 2022 Speaker
Monica Greco, Anne-Marie Slaughte, Andrés Monroy-Hernández, Department
Center for Information Technology Policy Location
Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall, Princeton University
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Tobias Schmidt is Associate (tenured) Professor and head of the Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG) at ETH Zurich. He also serves as the director of Institute of Science, Technology and Policy…
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November 28th, 2022 Speaker
Tobias Schmidt Department
C-PREE Location
300 Wallace
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Will artificial intelligence correct or perpetuate historic
discriminatory practices in cities? Will urban heat mitigation
strategies and new ecosystem amenities be deployed fairly across all…
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October 4th, 2022 Speaker
Elie Bou-Zeid Department
Center for Information Technology Policy
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Gunshot-detecting microphones, killer drones and baby fingerprint scanners all exist to convince citizens that they are necessary developments for a safe society. Yet, Black technologists and…
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April 27th, 2022 Speaker
Payton Croskey Department
African American Studies
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Research on machine learning (ML) algorithms, as well as on their
ethical impacts, has focused largely on mathematical or computational
questions. However, for algorithmic systems to be useful,…
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April 19th, 2022 Speaker
Amy Winecoff Department
Center for Information Technology Policy Location
Virtual
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While scholars often examine the ways in which technologies fail and marginalize communities, this event focuses on an equally critical goal of adopting an abolitionist mindset – one that…
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April 11th, 2022 Speaker
Kenia Hale, A.M. Darke, Annika Hansteen-Izora, Ashley Jane Lewis Department
Center for Information Technology Policy Location
Virtual
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Annual Harold T. Shapiro Lecture on Ethics, Science, and Technology featuring Charles Camosy, Associate Professor of Theology at Fordham University There is perhaps no more important value than…
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March 30th, 2022 Speaker
Charles Camosy Department
James Madison Program Location
Arthur Lewis Auditorium, Robertson Hall
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