Noah Giansiracusa

Assistant Professor, Mathematics & Data Science, Bentley University

Noah Giansiracusa (PhD in math from Brown University) is an assistant professor of mathematics and data science at Bentley University. Noah’s research interests include algebraic geometry (the abstract study of systems of polynomial equations and their solutions), machine learning (especially topological and geometric data analysis), artificial intelligence, empirical legal studies, phylogenetics, and misinformation.

Noah is the author of “How Algorithms Create and Prevent Fake News,” about which Paul Romer, Nobel Laureate and former Chief Economist of the World Bank, said “It’s a joy to read a book by a mathematician who knows how to write… There is no better guide to the strategies and stakes of this battle for the future.” Noah’s public writing appears in Barron’s, Boston Globe, Wired, Slate, and Fast Company, he’s been interviewed in Slate, TechCrunch, Tech Policy Press, and he has been quoted in Washington Post, Financial Times, Forbes, FiveThirtyEight, U.S. News, Agence France-Presse (AFP), and New Delhi TV.

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Oct 15th
2022
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Coding and the New Human Phenotype

This conference explores the concept of life, knowledge, and experience through the lens of “code,” examining how meaning is encoded, transmitted, and transformed across biological, digital, and cultural systems. Through five roundtables, it investigates how we reconstruct the past, navigate authenticity in a digital world, interpret fiction and ideas, engage with AI-generated language, and consider the possibility that reality itself may be fundamentally computational—together asking what is gained, and what may be lost, as code increasingly mediates our understanding of the world.