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CDE to co-sponsor Oct. 16 book talk by Brian Merchant, author of Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion against Big Tech
Tech journalist Brian Merchant comes to town (and campus) to talk about his new book Blood in the Machine, which is long-listed for the Financial Times best business book of the year. The New Yorker
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Chander interviewed for NPR “Marketplace” report on “how EU regulation is changing tech”
On September 12, 2023, CDE affiliate faculty member Anupam Chander, Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Technology at Georgetown University Law School, was interviewed for a story on "how EU regul
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CDE co-sponsors panel on “Digital Ethics and the Freedom of Thought” featuring renowned international human rights lawyer and author Susie Alegre
CDE and the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) held an insightful and open conversation on “Digital Ethics & The Freedom of Thought” on Monday, September 18, 2023, from 11:00 AM –
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CDE in the News
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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 first place?" His reflect
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Matt Blaze receives USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award
Faculty affiliate Matt Blaze has received the USENIX Lifetime Achievement Award – the FLAME AWARD – for making a “profound and lasting impact on computer science, computer security, law, and public p
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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 Thompson’s podcast “Plain English
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Will Fleisher quoted in the May 2, 2023 Windsor Star
Will Fleisher comments on "the lure and danger of AI chatbots" in a story by Cate Newman in The Windsor Star on May 2, 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 remind ourselves that th
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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 dangerous. But is tha
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