Getting ready to move servers ... wish me luck :)

Two iconic images of Margaret Hamilton, Lead Software Engineer on Apollo, the #software putting #astronauts on the moon in '69. 1st a stack of paper of all she hand-coded on Apollo (Jan. '69), #Draper; 2nd Her in the #Apollo Command Module #NASA

"...Software was not only informing everyone that there was a hardware-related problem, but... software was compensating for it.” Margaret Hamilton in Smithsonian Magazine Mar. 2019

#Histodons #gender #History #Womenshistory #WomeninTech

Hello/Hola, I'm a historian of technology in the MIT Program for Science, Technology, and Society. I am interested in the relationship of science, technology, and design to processes of political change, especially in Chilean history. I teach classes in areas such as data and society, the history and social studies of computing, and science, technology, and human rights. #histodons #sts #histsci #histtech #histSTM #LatinAmerica #humanrights #data

#introduction

One of my projects this semester has been developing and then submitting a proposal for a new class at my place. It is meant for first year students of any major and the proposed title is Algorithms, Race, and Computing. If approved the class will be part of our general education (lib ed) curriculum as of Fall 2023. I'm hoping for good things, and if so I'll report back with more details and (crucially) asking for advice! Stay tunred. #highered #algorithmicracism #computerscience

@LocoCravey Well hang on there are Vice Deans and Directors and Chancellors who are just getting by ... #highered

it's grad application season and people are talking about DEI statements and stuff; i'll just repeat something i heard a while back that was helpful for me:

applicants shouldn't need to wax philosophical about what they'll bring to your conspicuously white organization; at the very least, you should be able to talk about what you're doing to make this workplace safe and supportive, and not one which will grind them to dust under tokenism and all the DEI & service work nobody else volunteers for

Trying to think of ways to find FAccT community content on here—it looks like the only way to make stuff searchable is with a hashtag, and we don’t have a local instance (yet). So maybe #FAccT will help? And I guess #philosophy for me too? Anyone want to try make that work?

Within #histSTM History of AI is especially interesting to me, #AIHistory maybe for a hashtag... ? #introductions

So my "official" research area is #NLProc but I've become quite the dilatante (with all the horrors that follow) in #histSTM and #STS, hoping to find folks in all these areas here. Learn by lurking is my motto.

@KLdivergence no no, i'm done. no looking back.👋

Well ok, it's done. Whew.
#TwitterMigration

Mastodon is part of a federated social network running on free and open source software called the Fediverse. If you want to take a look at what the Fediverse is and how the Fediverse world looks like visit:
https://fediverse.party

#fediverse #twittermigration

Towards Collective Safety : Transformative Methodologies

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4212651

The Case of the Creepy Algorithm that Predicted Teen Pregnancy

https://www.wired.com/story/argentina-algorithms-pregnancy-prediction/

Sharing some things I've recently book marked on Twitter, will be leaving today and don't want to lose track.

The Exploited Labor Behind AI
https://www.noemamag.com/the-exploited-labor-behind-artificial-intelligence/

Are there barriers you face in carrying out #NLProc research? We hope to better understand what those are, who is affected, and how we can improve. Here's a short survey to get things started, please share!
https://github.com/thamar-solorio/barriers_in_nlp/blob/main/README.md

@KLdivergence Yikes. Unsettling how central just a few platforms are to ... everything ...

@KLdivergence I was looking at my linked in a few days ago and I just threw up my hands and deleted it. Felt kinda good.

@KLdivergence It's working!!! 😀