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Re-imagining plural, inclusive design futures in AI
Two Gates Cambridge Scholars are co-authors of a new paper on a human-AI art experiment involving the works of the Bangladeshi artist S M Sultan. Abdullah Hasan Safir [2024] from […]
Exploring the infinitely expanding jigsaw puzzle of nature
Ming Yang’s immense curiosity about fundamental science started in childhood. He says: “Consciously or not, it always fascinated me how rich structures lie beneath very simple first principles.” His PhD […]
Mitigating the silences in the archives
How do we ensure that the lives of displaced people and those with a complicated legal status are documented in national archives? Before she started her PhD, Shealynn Hendry [2022] […]
From space food to suing states for future climate change harm
Five Gates Cambridge Scholars gave stimulating talks at the end of last week on topics ranging from space nutrition and paleooceanography to intelligence, ultrahabilitation and whether international courts can sue […]
Recent Scholar returns to Cambridge as assistant professor
A Gates Cambridge Scholar has been appointed an Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge’s Department of Politics and International Studies at the age of 29 – just one year […]
