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MDI is Hiring: Fall 2025 MDI Scholars
We are pleased to announce a call for applications for the Fall 2025 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program. For full consideration, the application deadline is Friday July 18, 2025…
June 30, 2025
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Announcing Summer 2025 Research at MDI
The Massive Data Institute at the McCourt School of Public Policy welcomed the Summer 2025 Cohort of student.…
June 13, 2025
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2024 – 2025 Academic Year Recap
Written by Lisa Singh, MDI Director, Sonneborn Chair, Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Professor in the McCourt School of Public Policy Now that the…
June 13, 2025
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Editing for Equity: Closing the Wikipedia Gender Gap
Join the Georgetown community to help close this gender gap on Wikipedia by increasing the representation of underrepresented groups — in both Wikipedia content and…
June 13, 2025
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Save the Data: The Georgetown Community Unites to Preserve Public Information
By: Sara Bach, Spring 2025 MDI Communications Assistant On February 13th, more than 60 volunteers, including students, faculty, and researchers, gathered in the Georgetown Ethics…
June 7, 2025
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Bridging the Online Gender Gap: Rebecca MacKinnon and the Fight for Gender Equity on Wikipedia
Participants from the 2nd Annual Georgetown Wikipedia Edit-a. …
May 6, 2025
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Labeling Election-Related Communications on Social Media: Navigating “easy” and “hard” Labels
By: Thessalia Merivaki, Ph.D., Associate Teaching and Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, and Jorge Bris Moreno ’25, MDI Scholar Researchers analyzing social…
May 5, 2025
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Editing for Equity: Georgetown University’s Second Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Aims to Increase Representation and Close the Gender Gap Online
Participants from the 2nd Annual Georgetown Wikipedia Edit-a. …
April 25, 2025
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TrueMedia finds new home at Georgetown’s McCourt School
McCourt School of Public Policy researchers will continue developing the AI platform to detect deepfakes and false information, furthering Georgetown University’s commitment to…
April 17, 2025
- Formal Response
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Formal Response — MDI’s Comment on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University offer the following comments in response to Office of Science and Technology…
April 17, 2025