The Perils of Automated Facial Recognition SIAM NewsBook Reviewssiam.org FeedsComputational Science & Numerical AnalysisData Science Ernest Davis reviews two books about issues of privacy and inequality with facial recognition technologies.
Musings on the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems SIAM NewsBook Reviewssiam.org FeedsDynamical Systems, Nonlinear Waves David Aldous reviews In a Flight of Starlings: The Wonders of Complex Systems by Nobel Prize winner Giorgio Parisi.
Trucking, Surveillance, and Applied Mathematics SIAM NewsBook Reviewssiam.org FeedsComputational Science & Numerical AnalysisData Science Ernest Davis reviews Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance by sociologist Karen Levy.
Describing the Universe with Breadth and Depth SIAM NewsBook Reviewssiam.org FeedsClassical Applied Mathematics Paul Nahin reviews Chris Budd's new book Climate, Chaos and COVID: How Mathematical Models Describe the Universe.
Intelligence: Whence and Whither SIAM NewsBook Reviewssiam.org FeedsData Science Akash Deshpande reviews Understanding and Changing the World, a rich yet concise book by Joseph Sifakis.