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Cal Newport in The New Yorker: We Don’t Need a New Twitter
Writing in The New Yorker, Cal Newport explores the effort to create a Twitter alternative and asks “Why is it so important to create a better version of Twitter in the…
August 16, 2023
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Matt Blaze receives USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
CDE Faculty affiliate Matt Blaze has received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award – the FLAME AWARD – for making a “profound and lasting impact on computer…
August 14, 2023
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Cal Newport on July 5, 2023 “Plain English” podcast from the The Ringer Podcast Network
Cal Newport discusses the deceptive lure of productivity tools and how they actually make us less productive in “How the Digital Workplace Broke Our Brains” on Derek…
July 5, 2023
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Will Fleisher quoted in the May 2, 2023 Windsor Star
“Developers still have a responsibility to try and mitigate the potential for abuse or misappropriation of their systems to occur. As an example, Fleisher points to the…
May 2, 2023
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Newport in The New Yorker: “What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?”
“The response to ChatGPT, and to the other chatbots that have followed in its wake, has often suggested that they are powerful, sophisticated, imaginative, and possibly even…
April 23, 2023
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CDE Artificial Intelligence Panel at John Carroll Weekend 2023
On Friday, April 21, three Center for Digital Ethics (CDE) faculty members spoke to a standing-room-only audience in a panel titled "AI Chat: Crisis or Human Evolution?" at John…
April 21, 2023
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America Magazine editor lauds Newport book as “a secular piece of scripture”
Writing in the Jesuit magazine America, poetry editor Joe Hoover, SJ calls Cal Newport’s book Deep Work “a secular piece of scripture that needs to be read over and over, to…
April 18, 2023
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CDE at Tech & Society Week 2023
March 27 – April 1, 2023 marked the second annual Tech & Society Week—a week of events taking place throughout Georgetown, exploring various issues "at the nexus of…
April 4, 2023
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Ohm quoted in WSJ on internet privacy and security
On September 6, 2022, Prof. Paul Ohm was quoted on internet privacy and security in an article titled “When to Use a VPN – and When It Won’t Protect Your Data.&;…
September 6, 2022
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Laura DeNardis elected to life membership in the Council on Foreign Relations
Congratulations to Prof. Laura DeNardis , endowed chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society at Georgetown, on her election into life membership in the Council on Foreign Relations…
August 1, 2022