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Danae Theocharaki - Final Project

Cultural Representation

From Giphy       A lot of movies and series have been coming out for the past few years that showcase a big interest in portraying sci-fi and extremely technologically advanced worlds or place extra features in our own world as we know it. One artifact in which facial recognition technology is really well portrayed…
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December 12, 2017 0

History

     For the past years people had been witnessing the appearance of facial recognition technology mostly in science fiction movies and books; however, for the past decade or so facial recognition technology is being used in our everyday lives from law enforcement agencies to supermarket payments to airport security.      Journalist Jennifer Tucker…
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December 12, 2017 0

Bibliography

Angle 1: The Artifact Itself  Beijing, ​Agence France-Presse in. “From Ale to Jail: Facial Recognition Catches Criminals    at China Beer Festival.” The Guardian, Guardian News and Media, 1 Sept. 2017, www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/01/facial-recognition-china-beer-festival. Finn, Ed. What Algorithms Want: Imagination in the Age of Computing. MIT Press, 2017. Knight, Will. “In China, You Can Pay for Goods Just by…
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December 12, 2017 0

The Artifact Itself

    In the country where technology cannot be stopped as it rapidly advances from one breakthrough to the next, China is now the motherland of yet another technologically advanced product. This product is more of a system, which uses facial recognition technology to execute everyday human activities, like financial transactions, access to facilities and…
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December 11, 2017 0
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