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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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Prof. Anupam Chander speaks on artificial intelligence and human rights
Anupam Chander, the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, gave an invited address on “Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights at the National Law School of Indi
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Paul Ohm Quoted in Wall Street Journal on VPNs
Professor Paul Ohm was quoted on Internet privacy and security in Sept. 6, 2022 Wall Street Journal article on “When to Use a VPN - and When It Won’t Protect Your Data." Prof. Ohm explains how “I
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Laura DeNardis elected to life membership in the Council on Foreign Relations
August 1, 2022: Congratulations to Laura DeNardis , endowed chair in Technology, Ethics, and Society at Georgetown, on her election into life membership in the Council on Foreign Relations for her ex
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