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Dec 9, 2024 | 
media.mit.edu | Sarah Beckmann
With the increase in electronic payments options, privacy considerations are becoming even more important and privacy concerns more prevalent. The Bank of England and HM Treasury’s 2023 Consultation Paper on the digital pound made clear that rigorous standards of privacy would be fundamental to trust and confidence in a digital pound and that measures would be put in place to ensure the public has confidence in using any digital pound, were one to eventually be launched.
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Dec 5, 2024 | 
media.mit.edu | Peter Dizikes |Catherine D'Ignazio |Sarah Beckmann
By Peter Dizikes | MIT NewsIt is fairly common in public discourse for someone to announce, “I brought data to this discussion,” thus casting their own conclusions as empirical and rational. It is less common to ask: Where did the data come from? How was it collected? Why is there data about some things but not others? MIT Associate Professor Catherine D’Ignazio SM ’14 does ask those kinds of questions.
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May 29, 2024 | 
media.mit.edu | Sarah Beckmann
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May 20, 2024 | 
dialnet.unirioja.es | Sarah Beckmann
Late Roman «villae» and the «rus»: Interrogating Rural Interdependencies in the Ebro River Valley (Navarra, Spain)[1]University of California, Los AngelesLocalización: Cuadernos de arqueología de la Universidad de Navarra, ISSN 1133-1542, Nº 32, 2024, págs. 293-316Idioma: españolEnlacesTexto completoResumenEn el último siglo de excavaciones, muchas villae tardoantiguas (siglos III-V d.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
muse.jhu.edu | Sarah Beckmann
[Skip to Content] Purchase/rental options available: Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP ISSN 1939-9774 Print ISSN 1939-6589 Pages pp. 137-149 Launched on MUSE 2024-02-01 Open Access No This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Without cookies your experience may not be seamless....
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
media.mit.edu | Sarah Beckmann |Cynthia Breazeal
The 2024 MIT Independent Activities Period (IAP) begins on Monday, January 8, 2024 and ends on Friday, February 2, 2024 . Check the MIT Events Calendar for non-credit courses and activities, or the Registrar’s Office for for-credit courses. Also keep an eye out for emails and posters announcing informal workshops and other "unofficial" IAP courses. Below is an evolving list of IAPs hosted by members of the Media Lab community in collaboration with other departments.
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Nov 28, 2023 | 
media.mit.edu | Sarah Beckmann |Deblina Sarkar
Professor Deblina Sarkar has been awarded The Sontag Foundation’s Distinguished Scientist Award—one of only three researchers nationwide to be selected for this distinctive honor this year. She is also the only researcher from MIT within the past decade to win this award. The Distinguished Scientist Award honors extraordinary scientists with the potential to make a significant impact in the field of brain cancer. Prof.
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Jul 2, 2023 | 
media.mit.edu | Sarah Beckmann
Our planet, Spaceship Earth, has sustained its vast and glorious array of life for over three billion years. In the 20th century, human longevity, prosperity, and development were fueled by growth in energy innovation and access; however, humanity has pushed Earth into "the Great Acceleration," affecting Earth's ability to maintain long-lasting stable ecosystems. The scientific warnings over the past decades of catastrophic effects now ring true, and we must take action.
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Jul 2, 2023 | 
media.mit.edu | Sarah Beckmann
The Challenge The accelerating crises, disruptions, and disconnections in today's society-nationally and globally-highlight the urgency for all of us to become more inventive, empathetic, and creative in everything we do. The ability to think and act creatively is the most powerful antidote to depression, disillusionment, distancing, and destruction; research shows that participation in creative arts learning, problem-solving, and empathy result in wellbeing.
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Jul 2, 2023 | 
media.mit.edu | Sarah Beckmann
View recent awards and recognitions received by members of the Media Lab community in the modules attached here.
