Social sciences
Studying how people, societies, and technology shape one another to create more equitable and effective computing experiences.
Public Perception of Artificial Intelligence
Analyses of text corpora over time can reveal trends in beliefs, interest, and sentiment about a topic. We focus on views expressed about artificial intelligence (AI) in the New York Times over a 30-year period.…
Datamations
Datamations are powerful animations that show the story of how data are sliced, sifted, and transformed on their way to the final visualization.
Racist Tropes and Labor Discipline: How Tech Inherits and Reproduces Global Imaginaries of Race and Work
How do histories of race and labor make their way into the tech industry? What is the relationship between these histories and the way new ideas and profits are generated in the tech industry more…
Datamations
datamations is a framework for automatic generation of explanation of plots and tables from analysis code. It automatically turns code into animations, showing the steps that led to a plot or a table.
Anticipate, absorb, and adapt—introducing the societal resilience research agenda
The genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first published in January 2020. Before the end of the year, new vaccines—which typically take five to ten years to develop—were approved for emergency use in multiple nations. This…
Societal Resilience
We research new and reliable ways of anticipating the technology needed for the next crisis, whatever that may be, and making it ready to adapt and deploy when the time comes.