Toppling Epstein's intellectuals network
While there have been no other high-profile exits from the MIT Media Lab after Ethan Zuckerman and J. Nathan Matias submitted their resignations, the lab’s students had been demanding its director Joi…
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Another exit from MIT Media Lab
J. Nathan Matias, a newly minted faculty member at Cornell University and a visiting scholar at the MIT Media Lab, has announced that he will cut all ties with the latter at the end of the academic ye…
Joi Ito's nerd tunnel vision
On August 15, Joi Ito, the director of MIT's famed Media Lab, published a post apologising for fraternising with Jeffrey Epstein. His wording mimics a bit of George Church's as well, in that I…
MIT I ask, where's my metadata?
MIT’s new app, Immersion, uses your Gmail metadata to draw a digital footprint of your email-centric life. It also shows how small apps are well poised to commercialize metadata, especially by its bac…
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Most of the principles of the MIT Media Lab I think can be adopted by young professionals looking to make it big. It’s not safe, it’s not sure either, but it definitely re-establishes the connection w…