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...
by TIPI Staff | Jul 5, 2019
Abstract: A great deal of scholarship on broadband deployment and federal policies has positioned rural America through a deficit framework: rural parts of the country have older populations (and therefore not tech savvy), are poor (and therefore justifiably ignored...
by TIPI Staff | Jun 18, 2019
In support of closing the rural connectivity gap in Texas, Glasshouse Policy partnered with AARP, the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC), and the University of Texas Technology and Information Policy Institute to host a series of town halls and...
by TIPI Staff | Jun 12, 2019
To help support entrepreneurs and small-business owners — key drivers of prosperity in rural Texas — the IC² Institute at The University of Texas at Austin is funding new research on entrepreneurship in rural and small city environments. To spur innovation and...
by TIPI Staff | May 3, 2019
TIPI Guest Lecture with Marko Ala-Fossi 2019-05-03, 3:30 p.m. University Lecturer, Adjunct ProfessorFaculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC)The Communication Sciences UnitTampere University, Tampere, Finland
by TIPI Staff | Apr 26, 2019
Sharon Strover and German Alvarez presented Facebook and the Russian IRA Campaign. This symposium encouraged a fruitful conversation about the role and impact of mainstream and social media—and in particular about information and disinformation wars—in political...
by TIPI Staff | Apr 25, 2019
2019-06-03, 11:30 a.m., CMB 3.112 Join us for a special brown bag lunch featuring RTF & Journalism doctoral student presentations. Richelle Crotty & Alexis Schrubbe: A Band-Aid on the Digital Divide: Investigating Mobile Beacon and Library Mobile Hotspot...
