Gender balance in computer science and engineering is improving at elite universities but getting worse elsewhere
By: Joseph Cimpian, Professor of Economics and Education Policy, New York University The share of computer science and engineering degrees going to women has increased at the most selective American universities over the past 20 years and is approaching gender parity, while the proportion has declined at less selective schools. Those are the main findings of a […]
From anecdotes to AI tools, how doctors make medical decisions is evolving with technology
By: Aaron J. Masino, Associate Professor of Computing, Clemson University The practice of medicine has undergone an incredible, albeit incomplete, transformation over the past 50 years, moving steadily from a field informed primarily by expert opinion and the anecdotal experience of individual clinicians toward a formal scientific discipline. The advent of evidence-based medicine meant clinicians identified the […]
Is AI dominance inevitable? A technology ethicist says no, actually
By: Nir Eisikovits, Professor of Philosophy and Director, Applied Ethics Center, UMass Boston Anyone following the rhetoric around artificial intelligence in recent years has heard one version or another of the claim that AI is inevitable. Common themes are that AI is already here, it is indispensable, and people who are bearish on it harm themselves. […]