Tag: Faculty in the Media
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- Faculty in the Media
ZKP tech startup Ligero raises $4 million seed round co-led by Galaxy Ventures and 1kx
The development of Ligetron took about seven years. After raising its first round in 2019, Ligero built a dark pool auction platform using multiparty computation (MPC), co,…
February 26, 2025
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The Supreme Court’s blockbuster gun case is a shot at redemption
Supreme Court heard Garland v. VanDerStok, a blockbuster case concerning “ghost guns." These are “gun parts kits” that can be converted into functional guns by novices with a few…
October 23, 2024
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Florida Inventors Hall of Fame Announces 2023 Inductees
The 2023 class also includes: Ophir Frieder whose disruptive advances in health monitoring, predictive medical and well-being treatment methods drastically improve patient…
May 1, 2023
- Faculty in the Media
ACM SIGIR academy to recognize contributions to information retrieval
The Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (ACM SIGIR) today announced the inception of the SIGIR Academy to honor and recognize…
March 2, 2021
- Faculty in the Media
Why Remote Work Is So Hard—and How It Can Be Fixed
Cal Newport writes about the history of remote office work, and how it is being reconsidered as people work from home during the…
May 26, 2020
- Faculty in the Media
When Technology Goes Awry
I begin my book, Digital Minimalism,² by quoting an essay by the journalist Andrew Sullivan. "An endless bombardment of news and gossip and images has rendered us manic…
May 1, 2020
- Faculty in the Media
‘Expert Twitter’ Only Goes So Far. Bring Back Blogs
Though Twitter is still overrun with toxic anger and fear-based nonsense (now more than ever), it is also, in one crucial way, beginning to play an important role in our response…
April 23, 2020
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10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2020 named by MIT Technology Review
Differential privacy, co-invented by Prof. Kobbi Nissim: A technique to measure the privacy of a crucial data.…
February 26, 2020
- Faculty in the Media
Explainable-AI driven prescription prediction technology licensed by Maxeler Technologies
Using the patent-pending, technology developed at Georgetown's Information Retrieval Laboratory under Professor Ophir Frieder, Maxeler intends to work with the researchers at…
January 23, 2020
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Was E-mail a Mistake?
Was E-mail a Mistake? The mathematics of distributed systems suggests that meetings might be better. Cal…
August 6, 2019