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MDI Impact Brief — Resolving the Tension between Privacy and Generative AI

Generative AI tools and applications are advancing at an astonishing rate. From generating code, email, and music to supporting decision making, generative AI is becoming common…

April 14, 2025

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Who Decides What You See? How Middleware Can Reshape Social Media

By: Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy For as long social media has existed, there have been debates about content moderation and…

April 10, 2025

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Event — MDI Scholars Research Showcase Spring 2025

On Wednesday, April 30, 2025, the Massive Data Institute of the McCourt School of Public Policy will host the MDI Scholars Research Showcase Spring 2025. MDI Scholars will…

April 1, 2025

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Tech & Society Week 2025 — AI Hazards: Understanding AI Incidents

On Monday, March 17, 2025 from 3:00 to 4:00pm in Fisher Colloquium in Hariri Building on the Hilltop Campus, we will be hosting a panel discussion on AI incidents during Tech ;…

March 12, 2025

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MDI is Hiring: Summer 2025 MDI Scholars

We are pleased to announce a call for applications for the Summer 2025 cohort of the MDI Scholars Program. For full consideration, the application deadline is Friday, April 4,…

February 27, 2025

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Georgetown University Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2025 for Women’s History Month

Join the Georgetown community to help close this gender gap on Wikipedia by increasing the representation of underrepresented groups — in both Wikipedia content and…

February 20, 2025

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Save the Data: Data Preservation Continues…

Join the McCourt School of Public Policy’s Massive Data Institute and partners to save open data from.…

February 8, 2025

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Massive Data Institute Welcomes Spring 2025 Scholars Cohort

The Massive Data Institute at the McCourt School of Public Policy held its Kick-Off Meeting for the 2025 Spring Scholars.…

February 5, 2025

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Administrative Data Research Conference 2025

June 24 – 25 in Washington, DC Join us in Washington, D.C. for the inaugural Administrative Data Research Conference (ADRCon) where together we will unlock the power of…

February 1, 2025

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New Beginnings for MDI in 2025

Written by Lisa Singh, MDI Director, Sonneborn Chair, Chair and Professor in the Department of Computer Science, and Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy. It is that…

January 27, 2025