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Tristan Perkins/The Hoya | Technology, policy, and law experts talked about the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in a March 12 panel, as part of the McCourt Schools Massive Data Institute (MDI) and Tech and Policy Programs AI & Me series.

Discussion: Experts Talk Privacy and Data in the Age of AI

By Tristan Perkins, Special to The Hoya March 15, 2024

Technology, policy and law experts provided critical insights regarding the implications of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday life in a March 12 conversation hosted by Georgetown University’s...

Georgetown Professor Harnesses Online Obituaries for Public Health, Mortality Surveillance

Georgetown Professor Harnesses Online Obituaries for Public Health, Mortality Surveillance

By Camille Vandeveer November 30, 2023

The Georgetown University Center for Global Health Science and Security, the Global Health Institute and the School of Health’s department of health management and policy hosted a Nov. 20 seminar about...

Book Talk Explores Intersection of Data, Journalism in India

Book Talk Explores Intersection of Data, Journalism in India

By Nina Raj October 27, 2022

While India struggles with data access, improved journalistic practices may offer a solution, author and data journalist Rukmini Shrinivasan said at a book talk. Shrinivasan spoke at an Oct. 21 event...

DAVID GROSSO
District of Columbia Public Schools released private information about students experiencing homelessness on the D.C. Council’s website, which is associated with Councilmember David Grosso (I-At Large)

Students’ Private Information Published on DC Council Website

By Elizabeth Douglas September 14, 2018

Washington, D.C.’s public school authority mistakenly posted the personal information of 2,000 students experiencing homelessness on a website run by the D.C. Council, where the data remained for seven...

MOINUDDIN: The Looming Shadows of Tech Giants

MOINUDDIN: The Looming Shadows of Tech Giants

By Humza Moinuddin March 27, 2018

As Georgetown University students, our daily interactions with technology span a wide array of products and companies. We use Facebook to keep tabs on friends, Google’s search engine for daily questions...

Panelists included Rick Smolan, a New York Times best-selling author; Cathy O’Neil, author of The New York Times’ best seller “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy”; Chuck Todd, NBC News political director and moderator of “Meet the Press”; and Mayra Buvinic, a member of the United Nations Foundation and senior fellow at Data2X.

Panelists Discuss Data Ethics

By Caroline Gardner February 6, 2018

Data has the potential to significantly change society, Kennedy Institute of Ethics Director and Georgetown philosophy professor Maggie Little said during a panel discussion of the ethical use of information...

EDITORIAL: Resources Over Restriction

By Editorial Board April 7, 2017

Between a funding cut and a potential university-led crackdown, Georgetown Day — a time-honored campus tradition since 2000 — may be in trouble. University concerns over excessive noise and class...

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DataRefuge launched an effort to save government climate research data on the fifth floor of Lauinger Library on Feb. 18.

University Hosts Federal Climate Data Rescue Event

By Megan Carey February 23, 2017

Students, faculty, librarians and scientists gathered at Lauinger Library and the Reiss Science Building Feb. 18 and Feb. 19 to partake in datarescueDC, an attempt to preserve federal environmental...

BEECK CENTER FOR SOCIAL IMPACT AND INNOVATION
The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation, in conjunction with GU Politics, published recommendations for the new administration.

Beeck Center, McCourt Massive Data Institute Releases 100 Day Plan for Innovation

By Charlotte Allen February 17, 2017

In a report published Feb. 8, the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute and the Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation jointly addressed innovation in policymaking and recommended...

FBI Risks Product Security

FBI Risks Product Security

By Patrick Soltis February 26, 2016

Apple Incorporated, the maker of most of your cell phones, recently passed a court order to provide the Federal Bureau of Investigation technical assistance in accessing data on a very special iPhone....

Participate for Progress

By The Editorial Board January 22, 2016

Georgetown University recently released its first ever Sexual Assault and Misconduct Climate Survey on Jan. 14. Two working groups, the Sexual Assault Working Group and the Climate Survey Working Group,...

CORREIA: Congress Subject to Groupthink

CORREIA: Congress Subject to Groupthink

By Tricia Correia October 24, 2014

"President Obama wants to conduct medical experiments on the minors flooding the U.S. border.” “Environmentalism will lead to a world without energy, similar to the world in the movie ‘Dawn of...

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