Professors Chris Wiggins & Matthew L. Jones join us to discuss their book How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms – a sweeping history of data and its technical, political, and ethical impact on our world. From facial recognition, capable of checking people into flights, to automated decision systems that inform who gets loans and who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. Get the book here: https://goo.gle/401ttMx. Chris Wiggins is an associate professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University and the New York Times’ chief data scientist. Matthew L. Jones is a professor of history at Columbia University and has been a Guggenheim Fellow. Moderated by Sonia Subramanian. #talksatgoogle #algorithm