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Column: She set out to build robots. She ended up exposing big tech

Por: Los Angeles Times Business November 03, 2023

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When Joy Buolamwini set off for college, her ambitions, she thought, were pretty straightforward. She wanted to pursue robotics and build cool tech. The child of first-generation Ghanaian immigrants — her mother was an artist, her father a medical chemist focused on drug discovery — she got hooked on computers as soon as her dad used them to share his work with her. A science show on robots inspired Buolamwini to set her sights on MIT, and... + full article



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