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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 users.

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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 development of platforms that inform public health.

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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 privacy.

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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 Challenge.

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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, patient-specific, prescription selectors, reducing drug resistance, thereby improving patient care.

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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 recipient.

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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 Innovation's Hearing on De

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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 cybersecurity.

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• Mark Maloof and Clay Shields Participate in Georgetown’s Summer College Immersion Program

  Over the summer of 2019, Professor Clay Shields and Mark Maloof taught Introduction to Python Programming for Computer Security as part of Georgetown's Summer College Immersion Program. Seventeen stu

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• Lisa Singh and Collaborators Receive a Large NSF Grant to Explore the Future of Quantitative Research in the Social Sciences

  Prof. Lisa Singh in Computer Science and her collaborators at Georgetown University and University of Michigan-Ann Arbor have received a new grant from the National Science Foundation. In order to

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