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"...The cross-functional, linchpin role of product managers makes them particularly well-positioned to navigate these complex issues. But McKinsey research has found that privacy, sustainability,...

Alex Hanna:  "...I’m not necessarily thinking about it from the perspective of the precautionary principle. I’m thinking of it more from the perspective of developing technology that works for...

“Context is everything,” said Schwartz, principal investigator for AI bias and one of the report’s authors. “AI systems do not operate in isolation. They help people make decisions that directly...

"...If you are able to say technology on the whole has done well, it probably means you're in a fairly privileged position" (Joy Buolamwini, NPR, 14 March 2022)

"...Yet, one of the first things I was taught as an engineering trainee was how to be an “objective” practitioner, suppressing personal experience, bias and emotion about research questions and...

"So I think there's something there we have to start to negotiate or reason with. How do we own what we've learned as designers without the design narcissism? How do we change the way we think...

"Spending time with art, especially with works that we don’t like, gets us out of our comfort zone. And how you look at art is a template for thinking about problem solving. Use your inherent...

Woodrow W. Winchester, III, PhD, CPEM, UMBC Professional Engineering Programs (PEP) Director, is a contributing author in a new anthology, “The Black Experience in Design: Identity, Reflection...

"...Because of its specificity with regard to individual enslaved people, this new information is as pathbreaking for lay researchers and genealogists as it is for scholars and historians. It is...

"...But you can add all of the soft data workers you want and little will change unless the industry values that kind of data and expertise. In fact, many academics, policy wonks, and other...