Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (SERC)

Caspar Hare, Georgia Perakis named associate deans of Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing | MIT News

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Caspar Hare and Georgia Perakis have been appointed the brand new affiliate deans of the Social and Moral Tasks of Computing (SERC), a cross-cutting initiative within the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman School of Computing. Their new roles will take impact on Sept. 1. “Infusing social and moral facets of computing in educational analysis and schooling … Read more

Ushering in a new era of computing | MIT News

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As a graduate student doing his master’s thesis on speech recognition at the MIT AI Lab (now the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), Dan Huttenlocher worked closely with Professor Victor Zue. Well known for pioneering the development of systems that enable an user to interact with computers using spoken language, Zue traveled frequently … Read more