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I will be presenting excerpts from my current book project "Bones and Lives: Making and Unmaking Truth After Dictatorship," at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, October 6, 2020 12pm-1pm. 

The HSTS Graduate Forum will host Eden Medina, Associate Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at MIT. September 2, 2020, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm.

I co-taught the new course Data and Society with Professor Sarah Williams as part of the new MIT Computing and Society Concentration. The course brought the social and technical together in data science teaching & bridged the Program in Science, Technology, and Society and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

I am thrilled and honored to be the 2020-2021 Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute.

I will be moderating the upcoming Arthur Miller Lecture on "The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence." The event will take place at 4:30pm in Bartos Theater.

My article, "Forensic Identification in the Aftermath of Human Rights Crimes in Chile: A Decentered Computer History," Technology and Culture 59:4 Supplement (2018): S100-S133 received the 2019 Abbott Payson Usher Prize from the Society for the History of Technology. The prize is awarded to the author of the best article or other work published by the…

I will be part of a plenary session on training data at the upcoming "Training Humans Symposium" to be held at the Prada Foundation's Osservatorio in Milan, Italy.

I'll be giving a talk on my current research as part of the STS Circle speaker series 12:15–2 pm in CGIS S050, 1730 Cambridge Street.

I am will be speaking at Tufts on the topic of history and memory as part of the symposium "Chile/Latin America and the struggle for social justice in a Changing World."

I contributed to the series "Computing and AI: Humanistic Perspectives from MIT" by co-authoring this piece with Dwai Banerjee. Our recommendation for the new Schwarzman College of Computing: have research and teaching adopt a global approach — one that views the U.S. experience as one among many.