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The costs of inequality: for women, progress until they get near power
This article originally appeared in The Harvard Gazette. It is the best of times. Nearly equal numbers of American women and men now go into medicine and law. More women than men graduate from college and graduate school. The gap between men’s and women’s pay has shrunk in recent decades. It is the worst of […]
“Lost in Space:” can the crowd help NASA find items on the International Space Station?
It may seem hard to believe, but even astronauts lose track of things! In the closed environment of the International Space Station (ISS) there are only so many places equipment and personal items can be stored. So NASA reached out to LISH to run a crowdsource contest to improve on the existing state of the art inventory tracking system.
Targeting and Privacy in Mobile Advertising
Abstract: Mobile in-app advertising is growing in popularity. While these ads have excellent user-tracking properties through mobile device IDs, they have raised concerns among privacy advocates. This has resulted in an ongoing debate on the value of different types of targeting information, the incentives of ad-networks to engage in behavioral targeting, and the role of […]
