Tag: Faculty
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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