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Google has purchased Edlyft’s AI tutor – a generative AI co-pilot for college students studying computer science. Erika Hairston and Arnelle Ansong, two long-time friends, founded Edlyft in 2020 to support Black . . .
By Dzevida Sadikovic Retha Hill, the director of the New Media Innovation and Entrepreneurship Lab at Arizona State University’s Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, is using a grant from the Online News Association to help Black women professors learn the benefits of immersive technology in journalism. Hill, a professor of practice at […]
T he pronounced shortage of cybersecurity workers has been exhaustively chronicled, as has the low participation rate of Black people and other minorities among technology industry professionals. According to the 2021 Cybersecurity Workforce Study issued in October by the non-profit International Information System Security Certification Consortium — (ISC)2 — unfilled cybersecurity openings in the United […]
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Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the oldest and deadliest diseases that can now be prevented and cured. Many researchers worked to develop effective TB treatments, but they didn’t do it alone. In The Black Angels: The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis, author Maria Smilios chronicles the lives and lifesaving work of […]
As former President Trump seeks Black voter support, some of his followers have also begun targeting Black voters — with fake images created by artificial intelligence (AI), according to a report by BBC Panorama. The news organization reported Monday finding dozens of deepfakes portraying Black people supporting the former president. In one of the AI-generated […]
In recent years computing technology stakeholders have increasingly begun to ask questions about how to make our technology less biased, more fair, increasingly equitable, and even explicitly anti-racist. When it comes to how to make this happen, however, we have fewer answers than we do questions — particularly when it comes to thinking about these […]
Image Image Alt Stacy Brown-Philpot, Delane Parnell, Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins Visionary tech cartoon series “The Jetsons” never acknowledged a future with Black people at the forefront of innovation, yet here we are continuing to pioneer the way forward in all aspects of life — especially technology. From Dr. Mark Dean and
As former President Donald Trump seeks Black voter support, some of his followers have also begun targeting Black voters – with fake images, according to a report by BBC Panorama. The news organization on Monday reported finding dozens of deepfakes portraying Black people supporting the former president. In one of the AI-generated images, conservative radio show […]
The icon indicates free access to the linked research on JSTOR. W.E.B. Du Bois, born February 23rd, 1868, was perhaps the most influential African American intellectual and civil rights activist of the early twentieth century. He was the first African American to receive a doctorate at Harvard, and went on to become a professor of history, sociology, […]