by TIPI Staff | Aug 22, 2019
2019-09-20, 12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m., Lady Bird Johnson Room, CMA 5.136 Join the Technology & Information Policy Institute as we host Samuel C. Woolley, Assistant Professor in the Journalism School at the Moody College of Communication. Professor Woolley will...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 21, 2019
Rural Hotspot Lending Program STROVER, SHARON, PI; BRIAN WHITACRE, COLIN RHINESMITH,CO-PI ALEXIS SCHRUBBE AND GERMAN ALVAREZ, RESEARCHERS Introduction TIPI, in partnership with researchers at the University of Oklahoma and Simmons University, is examining how rural...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 19, 2019
Sharon Strover, Martin J. Riedl and Selena Dickey submitted a paper to TPRC47: Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy. The paper is an outgrowth of the TIPI’s Facebook Community Networks project. The team will present on Friday,...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 19, 2019
Ethical Data Design for Good Systems Summary: We conceptualize data and its handling as the core elements in building good systems, recognizing that data and the systems that manage it are not neutral but rather implicated in a chain of decisions, organizational...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 19, 2019
A team of researchers under the supervision of professors Joseph Straubhaar and Sharon Strover conducted the Austin Digital Assessment Survey for the City of Austin to assess internet usage in Austin. The team sent 11,000 surveys to random Austin addresses and...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 19, 2019
Sharon Strover received a grant from IC2 to characterize and quantify the relationship between adequate broadband services for rural entrepreneurship efforts, and to assess the politics that can improve the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. Broadband and Rural...
by TIPI Staff | Aug 16, 2019
How can we ensure that AI is beneficial – not detrimental – to humanity? How can we develop technology that makes life better for all of us, not just some? What unintended consequences are we overlooking or ignoring by developing technology that has the...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 30, 2019
The IMLS Libraries and Disasters project, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and in partnership with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and Florida State University, is tasked with finding out how small and rural libraries contribute...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 29, 2019
2019-03-11, 11 a.m., Engineering Education and Research Center Mulva Auditorium Good Systems is hosting a fireside chat with Julie Brill, Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President and Deputy General Counsel, and Professor Sharon Strover from the Moody College of...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 29, 2019
2019-08-07, 3:30 p.m. Join TIPI as we welcome Eric Meyer as the new dean of the School of Information! Eric will talk about Human-Machine networks. The story of society is inextricably bound with the rise of tools and machines. In the digital age, the machines we have...
