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"How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms": Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones

Event Time: 11am PT/2pm ET/7pm UK
“How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms”
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones in conversation with Audrey Borowski

In this final event of Audrey Borowki’s hugely successful “AI and the Digital” series, Chris Wiggins, professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and chief data scientist at The New York Times, and Matthew L. Jones, professor of history at Princeton University, will discuss their recently published book, How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the age of Algorithms.

Working together across the two cultures, as a historian and as a practicing data scientist, our speakers will discuss how data-empowered algorithms came to shape our personal, professional, and political realities using the functional, critical, and rhetorical capabilities necessary to understand and shape the future of data, as well as data’s interaction with truth and power. You can find out more and register here.