Talks & Events
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...
The Grand Challenge of Ethics and AI: A Fireside Chat with Tim Hwang
2019-10-07 3 p.m. Good Systems is hosting a fireside chat with Tim Hwang, director of the Harvard-MIT Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative, and Professor Sharon Strover from the Moody College of Communication. Dubbed “The Busiest Man on...
Addressing the Next Wave of Computational Propaganda with Sam Woolley
Guest writer and UT Austin Journalism undergradutate, Emily Brown On Friday, Sept. 2o, Samuel Woolley, a leading researcher in the intersection of politics and technology, gave a lunch-time lecture regarding the dangers of computational propaganda. “We need to...
TIPI Team Travels to TPRC 47
TIPI awarded Richelle Crotty a travel fellowship to TRPC47 to present her poster: Fallow Fields or Unyielding Potential? An Examination of EBS Proposed Rulemaking Comments and the Public Interest. Abstract Regulatory frameworks are in place that fund the distribution...
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
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,...
Brown Bag Lunch with Sam Woolley
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 present...
Regulation and Responsibility: The Dynamic Global Landscape for Privacy, Data Protection, and Technology
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...
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...
Nordic Media Welfare State. The Case of Finland: Variant or Deviant?
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