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Shiny Things Workshop
2020-02-21 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. There is so much buzz about artificial intelligence, but what’s real and what’s fiction? In this hands-on session about AI’s effects on...
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...
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...
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...
Library Hotspot Lending: Report to the Tocker Foundation
Based on our work with libraries in in other parts of the country (see: NYPL Hotspot Assessment and IMLS Rural Hotspots), we wanted to partner with Texas libraries in...
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...
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...
TIPI Teams with UT Austin’s IC² to Study Relationship Between Broadband and Economic Outcomes in Rural Areas
Several years ago, Sharon Strover met with many local economic development people throughout various Texas towns. They all said, “I want this town to be attractive...
At the Edges of the National Digital Platform: COMMUNITY ATTITUDES TOWARD RURAL LIBRARIES
STROVER, SHARON, PI; BRIAN WHITACRE, COLIN RHINESMOTH, CO-PI; ALEXIS SCHRUBBE AND GERMAN ALVAREZ, RESEARCHERS Supported by the Institute for Museum and Library...
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...