Category: News
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- Job Posting
- News
MDI is Hiring: 2024-2025 MDI-ISIM Forced Migration Scholars
We are excited to announce a call for applications for the 2024-2025 cohort of the MDI-ISIM Forced Migration Scholars to work with Sonneborn Chairs: The 2024-2025 cohort will…
February 26, 2024
- News
Automated pipeline to extract wetland damage data from US Army Corps of Engineers notices
Written by Xinyu Zheng, MPP ’23, and Kumar Himangshu, DSPP ’24 The Environmental Impact Data Collaborative (EIDC) at the Massive Data Institute (MDI) has partnered…
February 23, 2024
- Events
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Global Health and Data at Georgetown
Written by Tilde Jaques, MDI Journalism Intern Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, scientists, researchers, policymakers, and experts across disciplines have looked for…
February 22, 2024
- Events
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Workshop Highlight: Network Methods for an Interconnected World
Written by Carrie McDonald, MDI Journalism Intern Led by MDI Fellow Dr. Helge Marahrens, the Massive Data Institute (MDI) hosted its first MDI Data Workshop of the Spring 2024…
February 20, 2024
- Events
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Channeling “Rage” to Transform Knowledge About Women Leaders — Wikipedia Edit-a-thon for Women’s History Month
The theme for Women’s History Month this year at Georgetown University is “It’s all the Rage,” where we will engage feminist rage and emotion from intersectional lenses.…
February 20, 2024
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Announcing “AI & Me” a new series hosted by MDI and TPP
This Spring 2024, the Massive Data Institute and the Tech & Public Policy program at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University are teaming up to host a new…
February 12, 2024
- Formal Response
- News
Formal Response — MDI’s Comment on NIST AI Executive Order
The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at the McCourt School of Public Policy and the Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University (see contributors below) offer the…
February 9, 2024
- Events
- News
Event –MDI Spotlight Lecture: Modeling and Big Data for Pandemic Responses with Vittoria Colizza, Ph.D.
On February 22, 2024 from 2:30-3:30pm at Copley Formal Lounge, the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute (MDI) will host a MDI Spotlight Lecture. This…
February 8, 2024
- News
MDI Community Members Reflect on Biden’s AI Executive Order
On October 30, 2023, the Biden-Harris Administration issued an Executive Order (EO) on artificial intelligence, intending to strike a balance between “seizing the promise and…
January 31, 2024
- News
New Beginnings for MDI in 2024
Written by Lisa Singh, MDI Director, Sonneborn Chair, and a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and McCourt School of Public Policy. Reflections on the previous year…
January 31, 2024