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In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Latinos in Tech will host a coding event in Spanish for students and business owners.
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Abigail Phillips, assistant professor at the school of information studies at UW-Milwaukee, whose work focuses on public libraries, explains the technological shift in libraries in response to their utilization in the school system.
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As Milwaukee’s tech industry continues to expand, organizations like the Milwaukee Tech Hub Coalition are helping sustain that growth. The hub works to attract talent to the tech industry while building a diverse pipeline.
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UW-Milwaukee associate professor of sociology Noelle Chesley joins Lake Effect's Audrey Nowakowski to examine some of the pitfalls of automated hiring systems, and how they may be attributing to the current worker shortage.
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A new mobile app — lgbt milWALKee — offers guided, interactive and multimedia walking tours throughout the city to show generations of Milwaukee LGBTQ+ history. From people, organization and events, each location includes a narrated video of the site’s history along with current and past photos.
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Musicians have to do much more than simply practice and perform to make a living. Jared Judge knows first hand how many roles artists have to take on. He shares how he got inspired to create the app and the impact he hopes it has.
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Many major mobile carriers, like AT&T and T-Mobile, will be ending 3G services in 2022 to make room for 5G services. While faster internet may sound nice, the change could leave lower-income and older Milwaukeeans disconnected.
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Girls Who Code is a national program that encourages young women to pursue skills in computer science. Not only can young women in middle and high school learn programs like Python to help them code, but they also have an opportunity to build a community in a male-dominated profession.
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Marquette University psychology professor Nakia Gordon says that virtual reality training allows officers to gain insight and understanding, and hopefully empathy.
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The film Coded Bias looks at the bigger implications of unchecked artificial intelligence and big data, and how bias in algorithms impacts everyone.