Integrating Public Interest Technology in Mechanical Engineering Education: an Interview with Tim Gutowski I believe that MIT, as an institution of higher learning does have an obligation to pursue the public interest. But in many of our activities it is only manifest in an indirect way.
Measuring Environmental Harm in Prison Landscapes: Geospatial Technology in the service of Grassroots Organizing with Ufuoma Ovienmhada In my work, I aim to explore this transformative process through projects under the category of satellite Earth observation as well as in the area of microgravity research to apply that technology for sustainable development.
AI for Conservation and Community Building: an interview with Sara Beery, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science I was always motivated to do research that could be of service to my community. I am deeply interested in how developments in the technology we build get translated into things that are accessible and can be used by people beyond our field of expertise.
Climate Education’s Relationship to Public Interest Technology at MIT and Beyond: an interview with Chris Rabe, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative Scientists and technological innovators should pause at the early stages of technology and product incubation to question: What problem are we attempting to solve? Could we go deeper to the underlying cause of this problem?
Satellite Technologies as Public Interest Tech: an Interview with Danielle Wood In my work, I aim to explore this transformative process through projects under the category of satellite Earth observation as well as in the area of microgravity research to apply that technology for sustainable development.
News PIT Student Initiative Spotlight @ MIT: Code for Good By Will Reed and Isaac Taylor. Two MIT undergraduate students share with the Technologist community how they use their coding skills to support non-profits in the greater Boston area.
News Featured February/March 2024 Newsletter The Public Interest Technologist Newsletter brings together the most recent articles, publications, and interviews for you to discover.
News AI and the new Eternal Return The Public Interest Technologist. It is time for a "Minimum Standard of Care for AI" that can regulate an acceptable minimal conduct for companies and individuals that deploy AI outside the regulatory borders of their respective countries.
Public Interest Technology - New England’s Community Growth Continues into 2024 Public Interest Technology - New England (PIT-NE) is entering 2024 with big goals and lots of momentum to continue shaping public interest technology as a new field.
News Environmental Intelligence: Hello (AI-Assisted, Open-Source) World Claire Gorman. According to GitHub’s CEO, the platform’s new AI-based coding assistant wrote over a billion lines of operational code over the course of 2023.
Databases for Community Power: Building Tech for Public Interests with Catherine D’Ignazio I would push MIT to always remember that it has a commitment to local, as well as global, collaborations. By this, I mean to emphasize the need to build technologies that serve a public, and therefore have an applied nature for a given community.
News Large Language Models for Augmented Reading MIT Public Interest Technologist. A curious scientific paper on millipedes helps us consider what Large Language Models (LLMs) can teach us about the construction and dissemination of environmental intelligence.
News Environmental Intelligence: AI, Truth, and the Environmental Public Claire Gorman. The present era of global climate emergency invites consideration of the “public interest” in environmental terms.
