Oh no! I’ve been here almost a year and a half and knew none of these 😂

5 different public library systems in 2 countries just in 2018!

Thanks for such an informative (and fun!) tasting. Will definitely be rethinking my perception of Chilean and Argentinian Wine

Last week we hosted 16 DPhil students from #AIMSCDT who studied Dynamic Locomotion lead by students from Oxford Dynamic Robot Systems! ori.ox.ac.uk/dphil-students…

A new study indicates that Facebook’s automated advertising system—which earns the company tens of billions of dollars in revenue each year—may be breaking civil rights laws. And the issue is with Facebook itself, not with the way businesses use it wired.trib.al/WoNzy2q

Competitive blind wine tasting? Wine not? The slurping, swirling, and spitting starts tomorrow at 10PM on an all-new #RealSports on HBO.

Big congrats to University of Oxford. They are taking home the honour of winning and an enviable selection of fine wines thanks to iDealwine | FR 🇫🇷 🏆

Thanks so much for having us. It was a truly incredible day!

An audit of a resume screening algorithm found that the two factors most indicative of job performance were being named Jared and playing high school lacrosse qz.com/1427621/compan…

A complex tangle of social factors may encourage girls to prioritize verbal skills from a young age. But being excellent at reading doesn’t make a person bad at math—no matter their gender. to.pbs.org/2SMIOz9

Millions of Americans vote with paperless voting machines — devices that security experts say can be undetectably hacked and offer no way to audit the results when errors occur politi.co/2Kqbpqa

That’s a wrap! Thank you everyone who attended the #VotingVillage2019. Here’s some things our attendees discovered this year. Please look forward to our full report in the fall and special thanks to our hackers and scribes for all their hard work.

A new paper looking at gender bias in awarding of research positions examined two situations: when people on the award committees were aware of the test, and the year after, when they probably did not realize the test was being repeated. via Ars Technica wired.trib.al/2RD7eIm

Thrilled to have the opportunity to present some recent work yesterday!

Good luck to Nick and Anna from Engineering Science, Oxford, both of whom are competing in the #MachineLearning Zone!

New York Times Opinion Here is what was in the data: More than 50 billion location pings from the phones of more than 12 million Americans, across several major cities. Stuart A. Thompson and I then spent months reporting on how we are all tracked through apps on our phones. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Black women were more likely to be misidentified in the kind of facial-recognition scans police use for arrests. That's scary, since the FBI, ICE and police have run hundreds of thousands of facial searches in last several years wapo.st/2tCGkuN

Yesterday we had an amazing day finding out about Bossa Nova’s awesome robots, engineers and approaches to long-term autonomy in that most challenging of environments: supermarkets.

Congrats to Anna Gautier passed DPhil today! One of the generation of DPhils who had to cope with the most difficult of circumstances but you came through with a fantastic thesis 🙂 Nick Hawes and me could not be happier!