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How the Imagined “Rationality” of Engineering Is Hurting Diversity — and Engineering

Harvard Business Review

The flap has women and men in tech — and elsewhere — wondering what their colleagues really think about diversity. Damore’s memo echoes this view, decrying “hiring practices which can effectively lower the bar for ‘diversity’ candidates.”

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How to Prepare the Next Generation for Jobs in the AI Economy

Harvard Business Review

Most of us regard self-driving cars, voice assistants, and other artificially intelligent technologies as revolutionary. People who create this type of technology must be able to build teams, work in teams, and integrate solutions created by other teams. For the next generation, however, these wonders will have always existed.

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Research: Arab Inventors Make the U.S. More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

Zerhouni, the 15th director of the National Institutes of Health, Arab immigrants have made major contributions to American science and technology. innovation system, we ran an exercise matching Arabic first names with international patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT). and around the world. universities.