CS in the Media

• Op-ed on Garland v. VanDerStok case, ‘The Supreme Court’s blockbuster gun case is a shot at redemption‘, published by Kevin Tobia, Nathan Schneider and Brandon Waldon from the Department of Computer Science on The Hill, was heard recently at the Supreme Court ( Oct 23, 2024)
• Cal Newport’s articles have appeared in several venues in 2020: (i) ‘Expert Twitter’ Only Goes So Far. Bring Back Blogs, Wired, April 2020. (ii) Why Technology Goes Awry, Communications of the ACM, May 2020. (iii) Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed, New Yorker, May 26, 2020.
• Differential privacy, co-invented by Prof. Kobbi Nissim, is among 10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2020 named by MIT Technology Review (February 26, 2020)
• Prof. Ophir Frieder’s explainable-AI driven prescription prediction technology has been licensed by Maxeler Technologies (Jan. 23, 2020).
• Prof. Cal Newport article, Was E-Mail A Mistake: The mathematics of distributed systems suggests that meetings might be better, appeared in the New Yorker (August 6, 2019).
• Prof. Matt Blaze’s opinion piece, Stop Ignoring Those “Update Your Device” Messages, appeared in New York Times (March 27, 2019).
• Prof. Cal Newport’ opinion piece, Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This, appeared in New York Times (Jan. 25, 2019) and his interview appeared in the Wall Street Journal: It’s Not Too Late to Quit Social Media (Jan. 25, 2019).
• Prof. Kobbi Nissim’s work cited in an article from the U.K. Government Statistical Service: Privacy and Data Confidentiality Methods – a National Statistician’s Quality Review (December 2018). Prof. Kobbi Nissim’s contribution to the National Statistician’s Quality Review is also reported by WebWire.
• Prof. Kobbi Nissim’s work on differential privacy cited in a New York Times article on the 2020 US census: To Reduce Privacy Risks, the Census Plans to Report Less Accurate Data (December 5, 2018).
• Prof. Micah Sherr interviewed on CNN for a story on cyberattacks: Cyberattacks by “foreign government hackers” target senators (September 8, 2018).
• Prof. Nathan Schneider quoted in a Washington Post story about talking in cliches:  Baseball players are famous for cliches. Here are the ones they actually use (August 29, 2018). 
• Prof. Micah Sherr interviewed on CNN for a story on voter registration systems: Senator says Russia accessed FL voting systems (August 9, 2018).
• Tavish Vaidya, a CS Ph.D. candidate, quoted in a New York Times story on smart devices: Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t (May 10, 2018). The article also discusses research performed by Tavish and his collaborators, including Prof. Micah Sherr and Prof. Clay Shields.
• Prof. Lisa Singh featured in a Washington Post discussion on data privacy: Is privacy dead? What happens to your data and why it matters (March 29, 2018).
• Prof. Lisa Singh co-authored a story for Gallup on US election news: “Email” Dominates What Americans Have Heard About Clinton (September 19, 2016). The story, which reports the findings of a collaborative project between Gallup, Georgetown University and University of Michigan, was also reported on by CNN, Huffington Post, and other venues.
• Prof. Lisa Singh quoted in Education Week blog on computer education: Balancing Coding and Theory in Computer Science (February, 17, 2016).
• Prof. Lisa Singh quoted in an nprEd blog on computer education: Should Computer Education Cover More than Just Coding? (February 15, 2016).
• Prof. Lisa Singh quoted in a Nextgov artice on privacy: Privacy Isn’t Dead — Yet (September 9, 2014).