Tag Archives: Joi Ito
Melinda, Bill and Jeffrey (Epstein)
I’m not sure what to make of Bill Gates as he features in the New York Times‘s report on his divorce with Melinda French Gates, although it’s tempting to see hints of that attitude so often on display when the … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds
Tagged Arizona State University, Bill Gates, George Church, Jean-François Gariépy, Jeffrey Epstein, John Brockman, Joi Ito, Lawrence Krauss, Melinda French Gates, MIT, Seth Lloyd
Comments Off on Melinda, Bill and Jeffrey (Epstein)
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 Ito to resign over his ties with Epstein. … Continue reading
Posted in Op-eds, Science
Tagged Cesar Hidalgo, Elementary, Evgeny Morozov, Jeffrey Epstein, John Brockman, Joi Ito, Martin Nowak, Marvin Minsky, Max Brockman, Miami Herald, MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, Patrick McCray, Peter Aldhous, Robert Trivers, Ronan Farrow, Xeni Jardan
Comments Off on Toppling Epstein’s intellectuals network
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 year over the … Continue reading
Posted in Science
Tagged #MeToo, Boston Globe, Center for Civic Media, CivilServant, Ethan Zuckerman, George Church, Jeffrey Epstein, Joi Ito, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Media Lab Disobedience Prize, MIT Media Lab
Comments Off on Another exit from MIT Media Lab