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5th Year MIDS student Ben Chu has been awarded the Summer 2021 Jack Larson Data Science for Good Fellowship for his work on improving supply chain transparency to end human trafficking and forced labor.

“With the gift of cutting-edge data science tools, an advanced statistical background, and the passion to solve real-world problems, I foresee no limits to the change we can accomplish as the next generation of data scientists,” Chu said. “It’s our responsibility to use our talents to make ethically and morally just decisions that directly benefit the greater population.

I School professor Morgan G. Ames has been awarded the 2021 Computer History Museum Prize for her book The Charisma Machine: The Life, Death, and Legacy of One Laptop per Child.

The Computer History Museum Prize, awarded by SIGCIS, the Special Interest Group for Computers, Information and Society, is awarded to the author of an outstanding book published during the prior three years in the history of computing, broadly conceived.

“The Charisma Machine impressed the judges for both the clarity of its writing and its superlative scholarly achievement,” the awards committee stated.