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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

Faculty in the Media

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

In order to extract significant research value from new forms of organic data, computer scientists and social scientists must integrate their expertise – or converge – to create…

September 26, 2019

Faculty in the Media

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

Faculty in the Media

Stop Ignoring Those “Update Your Device” Messages

Prof. Matt Blaze’s opinion piece, Stop Ignoring Those “Update Your Device” Messages, appeared in New York Times (March 27,)…

March 25, 2019

Faculty in the Media

It’s Not Too Late to Quit Social Media

Cal Newport asks. It sounds like a rhetorical question, but then he answers it: “On reflection, the answer is yes for one group in particular:…

January 25, 2019

Faculty in the Media

Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This

Steve Jobs Never Wanted Us to Use Our iPhones Like This. The devices have become our constant companions. This was not the plan. Cal…

January 25, 2019

Faculty in the Media

Privitar Authors Review of Differential Privacy for the Office for National Statistics’ Quality Review

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 13, 2018