Disinformation Group Meeting

Disinformation Group Meeting

12:00 p.m. in FAC 402  As part of our Good Systems work, Talia Stroud, Director of the Center for Media Engagement, Mary Neuburger, Chair of the Department of Slavic and Eurasian Studies, and Sharon Strover proposed to host monthly “Disinformation Network” meetings to...
AI Is Tricky: An Interview with Tim Hwang

AI Is Tricky: An Interview with Tim Hwang

When people hear the term artificial intelligence or AI, there may be a tendency to think of the latest “Terminator” movie or fall for the hype of menacing machines controlling our existence and destroying humanity. Tim Hwang, a lawyer, writer, and researcher working...
Critical Infrastructure Studies: A Primer

Critical Infrastructure Studies: A Primer

2019-09-04, 4 – 6 p.m., Patton Hall (RLP), 1.302D 305 23RD ST E, Austin, Texas 78712 Abstract: What have been the main approaches to the study of infrastructure that now combine to make the topic of such compelling socio-political, technological,...

Sharon Strover Receives IC2 Grant

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...
Human-Machine Networks: Working Together or Working Apart?

Human-Machine Networks: Working Together or Working Apart?

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...