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Graham Jones' new class, "Paranormal Machines" is featured on MIT News and SHASS News

Associate Professor Graham Jones and Seth Riskin, Manager of the MIT Museum Studio and Compton Gallery, are offering a new class, Paranormal Machines: Technologies of Enchantment in Science, Art, and Culture. The class "explores the human experience of the disconcerting and the uncanny in relation to technology" and how "people and cultures build stories and beliefs around out-of-the-ordinary experiences". More

Professor Heather Paxson is interviewed for the series, "Computing and AI: Humanistic Perspectives from MIT"

Professor Heather Paxson shares her thoughts on why anthropological methods are "uniquely suited for studying the effects of automation and digital technologies in social life". More

Class of 2019 Anthropology major, Ankita Reddy, works on globally deployed diagnostic devices

Ankita Reddy, a graduating double major in Anthropology and Biology, will begin her post-graduation life as a researcher at the start-up E25Bio continuing the work on a globally deployed diagnostic device for mosquito-borne illnesses that she worked on as an undergraduate. More

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Graham Jones' new class, "Paranormal Machines" is featured on MIT News and SHASS News

Professor Heather Paxson is interviewed for the series, "Computing and AI: Humanistic Perspectives from MIT"

Class of 2019 Anthropology major, Ankita Reddy, works on globally deployed diagnostic devices

HASTS (History, Anthropology, Science, Technology & Society) Graduate Student Steven Gonzalez Researches the Cloud

Professor Susan Silbey is awarded the James R. Killian Jr. Faculty Achievement Award

Heather Paxson spearheads historic meeting on moving Anthropology journals to an Open Access model

Associate Professor Graham Jones has been named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow

Professor Susan Silbey Opens the Celebration of MIT's New Schwarzman College of Computing

Perspectives on the Societal Impact of Computing and AI

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