“Howard University fights to join the tech boom. Photographs by Christopher Gregory From Legand Burge, the chair of Howard University’s computer science department. In the fall of 2013 a young software engineer named Charles Pratt arrived on Howard University’s campus in Washington.”
“Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has responded to the controversy surrounding this year’s all-white Oscar nominations and confessed to being disappointed about the lack of diversity.”
Read: Academy president ‘disappointed’ with all-white Oscar nominees
“Tamir Rice’s beyond tragic death has exposed painful assumptions that seem hard-wired into the (white) American psyche about black children. The video sequence of Rice’s killing has been read in a variety of ways.”
Read: A YouTube video showing 2 white girls receive black dolls for Christmas sparks controversy
“The big question at the heart of the affirmative action case before the Supreme Court, Fisher v. Texas, is whether the university needs to consider race in its admissions process in order to create an environment diverse enough to benefit all students.”
Read: Chief Justice Roberts asked why diversity matters in a physics class. Here’s an answer.
“Microsoft’s Project Oxford, a suite of developer tools based on the company’s machine learning and artificial intelligence research, is getting a new quintet of services, the company announced at its Future Decoded conference in London.”
Read: Microsoft bolsters artificial intelligence with additions to Project Oxford
“Diversity was (once again) a popular topic of conversation inside Twitter headquarters this week following a blog post from a former employee who criticized company execs for failing to create a diverse workplace.”
Read: Twitter Engineering Lead Alex Roetter Apologizes for Diversity Issues: ‘We Have Blind Spots’
“A recent ProPublica analysis of The Princeton Review’s prices for online SAT tutoring shows that customers in areas with a high density of Asian residents are often charged more.”
“On Monday, the Internet went wild over a new study about ice-cold office temperatures. After all, what desk jockey can’t relate to the sensation of shivering indoors when it’s a solid 40 degrees hotter outside?”
“A new USC study has found that women had less than one-third of the speaking roles in the top-grossing films between 2007 and 2014 — another indication of the extent of Hollywood’s longstanding gender and diversity problems.”
Read: New facts on film’s ‘epidemic of invisibility’ for women, minorities
“Tygart Technology announced it has launched the MXMOBILE FaceID System, a mobile face recognition application designed for government agencies.”
Read: Tygart releases mobile facial recognition app for smartphones