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Cal Newport’s Articles Appear in New Yorker, Communications of the ACM and Wired Magazine

Cal is an author of several books, including “Digital Minimalism” and “Deep Work”, that address issues at the intersection of technology and culture. His…

April 26, 2020

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Adrian Hertel, Minor in Computer Science, Develops Program To Let You Know When Food Delivery Slots Open Up

Adrian Hertel, a Georgetown student who minors in computer science, created a program that will automatically notify users when time slots open on Amazon Fresh or Whole.…

April 9, 2020

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Best Paper Award for Shaobo Wang, Wenchao Zhou and co-authors, for their 2020 EDBT paper titled “Provenance for Probabilistic Logic Programs”.

EDBT (International Conference on Extending Database Technology) is a leading international forum for database researchers, developers, and.…

March 26, 2020

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J. Smart and collaborators at Georgetown University develop COVID-2019 Symptom Tracker

Leveraging Georgetown University’s AvesTerra knowledge orchestration framework, the university has a history of developing and implementing sociotechnical systems including…

March 19, 2020

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Differential privacy among 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2020 named by MIT Technology Review

Prof. Kobbi Nissim is a co-inventor of differential.…

February 26, 2020

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Georgetown Students Win the Hack for Good Challenge at TartanHacks 2020

Georgetown team consisting Wendy Boeker, Karina Chan, Karissa Prayogo , and David Yao participated in TartanHacks 2020 at CMU and won the Microsoft Hack for Good.…

February 25, 2020

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Prof. Ophir Frieder’s Explainable AI-Driven Prescription Prediction Technology Licensed by Maxeler Technologies

Using the patent-pending technology developed at Georgetown's Information Retrieval Laboratory, Maxeler intends to work with the researchers at Georgetown to productize scalable,…

January 24, 2020

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Sally Matson, CS and Mathematics major, receives the prestigious Marshall Scholarship

Sally Matson (C’20), a Georgetown senior who wants to use machine learning to combat climate change, is one of two Georgetown students named a 2020 Marshall Scholarship. …

December 10, 2019

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Matt Blaze Testifies on the Capitol Hill at a Hearing on Defending Against Election Interference

Prof. Matt Blaze provided testimony before the US House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and&…

November 24, 2019

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Eric Burger appointed Assistant Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy

Eric Burger has been appointed the Assistant Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. His portfolio will focus on telecommunications and.…

November 23, 2019