Description
1 Perils of Pageview
2 Crafted by Computer
3 Deepfake Deception
4 Autoplay the Autocrats
5 Prevarication and the Polygraph
6 Gravitating to Google
7 Avarice of Advertising
8 Social Spread
9 Tools for Truth
Author: Noah Giansiracusa
Publisher: Apress
Published: 08/01/2021
Pages: 235
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.78lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.52d
ISBN13: 9781484271544
ISBN10: 1484271548
BISAC Categories:
- Computers | Programming | Algorithms
- Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Computers | Artificial Intelligence | General
About the Author
Noah Giansiracusa received a PhD in mathematics from Brown University and is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Data Science at Bentley University, a business school near Boston. He previously taught at U.C. Berkeley, University of Georgia, and Swarthmore College. He has dozens of publications in math and data science and has taught courses ranging from a first-year seminar on quantitative literacy to graduate machine learning. Most recently, he created an interdisciplinary seminar on truth and lies in data that was the impetus for this book. He has received national grants and spoken at international conferences for his research in mathematics, and he has been quoted several times in Forbes as an expert on artificial intelligence. Noah also created a high school outreach program for underrepresented and disadvantaged youths, focusing on mathematics and statistics in the courtroom, that was headlined by an Obama-appointed Federal Circuit judge.