Tag: Events
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2020 Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection
Christo Wilson and I are pleased to announce that the Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’20) is returning for a fourth year, co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy in May 2020. As in past years, ConPro seeks a diverse range of technical research with implications for consumer protection. Past talks…
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The Third Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection
Arvind Narayanan and I are pleased to announce that the Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro ’19) will return for a third year! The workshop will once again be co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy, occurring in May 2019. ConPro is a forum for a diverse range of computer science research…
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"E-Voting: Risk and Opportunity" Live Stream Tomorrow at 1:30pm Eastern
Despite the challenges due to Hurricane Sandy earlier this week, the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton is still hosting “E-Voting: Risk and Opportunity,” a live streamed symposium on the state and future of voting technology. At 1:30pm (Eastern) on November 1, 2012, electronic voting experts from across the United States will discuss what…
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Open Government Workshop at CITP
Here at Princeton’s CITP, we have a healthy interest in issues of open government and government transparency. With the release last week of the Open Government Directive by the Obama Administration, our normally gloomy winter may prove to be considerably brighter. In addition to creating tools like Recap and FedThread, we’ve also been thinking deeply…
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Robots and the Law
Stanford Law School held a panel Thursday on “Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics”. I happened to be in town so I dropped by and heard an interesting discussion. Here’s the official announcement: Once relegated to factories and fiction, robots are rapidly entering the mainstream. Advances in artificial intelligence translate into ever-broadening functionality and…
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New Podcast: CITP Conversations
Over the last few months, as the pace of activity at CITP has increased, we’ve fielded a growing number of requests from points around the web, and around the world, for podcasts and other ways to “attend” our events virtually. We hear you, and we’re working on it. Today, I’m very pleased to announce a…
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On digital TV and natural disasters
As I’m writing this, the eye of Hurricane Ike is roughly ten hours from landfall. The weather here, maybe 60 miles inland, is overcast with mild wind. Meanwhile, the storm surge has already knocked out power for ten thousand homes along the coast, claims the TV news, humming along in the background as I write…
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Live Webcast: Future of News, May 14-15
We’re going to do a live webcast of our workshop on “The Future of News”, which will be held tomorrow and Thursday (May 14-15) in Princeton. Attending the workshop (free registration) gives you access to the speakers and other attendees over lunch and between sessions, but if that isn’t practical, the webcast is available. Here…
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Future of News Workshop, May 14-15 in Princeton
We’ve got a great lineup of speakers for our upcoming “Future of News” workshop. It’s May 14-15 in Princeton. It’s free, and if you register we’ll feed you lunch. Agenda Wednesday, May 14, 2008 9:30 – 10:45 Registration 10:45 – 11:00 Welcoming Remarks 11:00 – 12:00 Keynote talk by Paul Starr 12:00 – 1:30 Lunch,…
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May 14-15: Future of News workshop
We’re excited to announce a workshop on “The Future of News”, to be held May 14 and 15 in Princeton. It’s sponsored by the Center for InfoTech Policy at Princeton. Confirmed speakers include Kevin Anderson, David Blei, Steve Borriss, Dan Gillmor, Matthew Hurst, Markus Prior, David Robinson, Clay Shirky, Paul Starr, and more to come.…