Events and Announcements

"...There is a difference between a design prototype and a design fiction. While a design prototype is bound by the parameters of the present, a design fiction has no logical constraints, and it's...

“The incentive structure is not such that you slow down, first of all, think about how you should approach research, how you should approach AI, when it should be built, when it should not be...

"...Raji said it’s always good when companies take public steps to signal that technology is dangerous but cautioned that people shouldn’t have to rely on voluntary corporate actions for...

"Unfortunately, a 2014 study by Cech found that engineering students’ sense of public responsibility decreased over the course of their education. “In a sample of students at four institutions, I...

"...The biggest obstacles that we face addressing the environmental issues are the people that are profiting from the problem.  The same people that have designed the failures get the money to...

"Shift No. 3: Instead of focusing on people, focus on people in systems.  While design thinking asks us to put humans at the center of what inspires design, a focus on designing in the context of...

“...When you learn to appreciate language, you can then appreciate culture” (Rujul Gandhi, MIT News)

Q: Do you think the higher education system is doing enough to prompt young engineers to think about equity as they do their work? Are there things engineering programs should be doing...

"One of the consequences of how Facebook is picking out that content today is that it is optimizing for content that gets engagement, a reaction, but its own research is showing that content that...

"..You’d think stakeholders would want their technologies to work accurately and in everyone’s best interest. Yet, raising questions around how a technology will impact people of different races,...