Tag: Faculty
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- Faculty in the Media
Innovation or digital deception? OpenAI’s Sora 2 sparks debate
Elissa Redmiles said the current potential problems posed by products like Sora 2 being rushed onto the market are just the tip of the iceberg. Sarah Bargal who specializes in…
October 29, 2025
- Faculty in the Media
How Congress Could Stifle The Onslaught of AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material
Elissa Redmiles is part of an international research team that has been investigating the limits of compositionality. “Preliminary results show that in a model where we’ve…
September 25, 2025
- Faculty in the Media
Misinformation and the Role of Social Media in Elections
Lisa Singh, who co-authored “Words That Matter” with Budak, identified several key findings from their research. Among these, Singh noted Trump’s ability to use social media to…
September 9, 2025
- News Story
Massive Data Institute drives community efforts to preserve at-risk data
“Without administrative data, we cannot understand the impact of different initiatives and policies on the public. We also do not know who is benefiting and who is being harmed,”…
July 17, 2025
- 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
- Faculty in the Media
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
- News Story
Georgetown, University of Michigan Partner With CNN to Analyze 2024 Election
The poll is part of the Breakthrough project, a collaboration between CNN, Georgetown, the University of Michigan, SSRS and Verasight, that tracks the opinions of Americans on…
August 2, 2024
- Faculty in the Media
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