Quoted: Michael Casey on Computers and Listening

1/19/2015
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Dartmouth Now takes note when faculty and other members of the community weigh in on issues of the day. Here is today’s “Quoted”:

“We imagine that we can close our eyes and relax and enjoy silence, except that, as the composer John Cage wrote about and explored in his own work, there really is no such thing as silence,” says Professor Michael Casey in a CBC radio interview about new consumer electronics that are always listening.

Casey is the James Wright Professor of Music and a professor of computer science.

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