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Shifting Power Through Resistance: Social Justice in Practice
By Cella M. Sum, Alicia DeVrio, June 2024
By Cella M. Sum, Alicia DeVrio, June 2024
Organizers at the intersection of anticolonial justice and technology, Gabriel Schubiner and Nikhil Dharmaraj discuss their journeys, the historical context of their work, and organizing strategies.
By Gabriel Schubiner, Nikhil Dharmaraj, June 2024
By Alaina Smith, Juan Gilbert, February 2024
A pioneer of digital contact tracing discusses the considerations that went into building the world's first national contact tracing app and ponders the future of the technology.
By Jason Bay, April 2022
By Ross Teixeira, Henri Maxime Demoulin, December 2020
Using capacitive touch sensors and traditional quilting techniques lead to the collision of seemingly disparate worlds and resulted in the creation of the Partnership Quilt, a living archive of voices in the shape of an interactive piece of craftwork.
By Angelika Strohmayer, Janis Meissner, December 2017
How the technology of the Occupy movement became a mobile app for policing.
By Joan Donovan, April 2017
The results of the 2016 Brexit referendum in the U.K. and presidential election in the U.S. surprised pollsters and traditional media alike, and social media is now being blamed in part for creating echo chambers that encouraged the spread of fake news that influenced voters.
By Dominic DiFranzo, Kristine Gloria-Garcia, April 2017
Crisis Text Line CTO Jason Bennett shares his insight on the technology behind this helpline using text to reach people in need of counseling during times of crisis.
By Rahul R. Divekar, Nidhi Rastogi, April 2017
Russ Altman discusses how computational biology is rapidly transforming clinical practice, particularly in his own field of pharmacogenomics.
By Cristina Pop, Billy Rathje, July 2015
Computational methods can be used to find associations between our genome and our traits, and new optimizations to these computations promise to do it much faster.
By Christoph Lippert, David Heckerman, July 2015
Recent advances in genome typing and sequencing technologies have enabled quick generation of a vast amount of molecular data at very low cost. The mining and computational analysis of this type of data can help shape new diagnostic and therapeutic strategies in biomedicine.
By Marina Sirota, Bin Chen, July 2015
Suchi Saria of Johns Hopkins University shares how big data and machine learning can help improve the practice of healthcare, and how computing students can contribute.
By Narges Razavian, July 2015
How computational biology might help in discovering the missing links between diet and disease.
By Malay Bhattacharyya, July 2015
The director of Stanford University's Pande Lab discusses how his work with large-scale, distributed simulation is being used to study protein folding and its connection to disease.
By Cristina Pop, July 2015
Single-cell data creates computational opportunities for discovery in disease and human health.
By Karen Sachs, Tiffany Chen, July 2015
How technology enables the data geek in life sciences and healthcare.
By Sarah Aerni, Hulya Farinas, Gautam Muralidhar, July 2015
Never mind the cloud, back up your selfies to DNA
By Adrian Scoică, July 2015
Intelligently leveraging data from millions of social media posts is a modern public health approach that has the potential to save many lives.
By Munmun De Choudhury, December 2014
Creating a user experience to communicate the seriousness of HIV prevention and awareness can be both educational while entertaining. This combination along with a sense of cultural influence helps to both attract and engage millennials.
By Fay Cobb Payton, KaMar Galloway, December 2014
By Sean Follmer, Inbal Talgam-Cohen, June 2014
By Jean Yang, June 2014
From the early 1980s to the present day, the tech industry, the law, and media representations have evolved in tandem, all hypnotized by the myth of "The Hacker"---an ideal coder, stereotyped as an exceptional young white man.
By Sarah Jeong, Colin McSwiggen, June 2014
A look at how implicit biases influence the advancement of women in science and engineering.
By Eve Fine, Amy Wendt, Molly Carnes, June 2014
Having a baby and taking a new start. A program for women on maternity leave, teaches them how to give birth to a startup.
By Liron Lifshitz-Yadin, Daniela Raijman-Aharonov, June 2014
A cyber-physical systems perspective on the design of vehicular networking solutions for safer and greener transportation.
By Yaser P. Fallah, March 2014
The line between personal and anonymous information is often unclear. Increasingly it falls to lawyers to understand and manage the risks associated with the sharing of "anonymized" data sets.
By Marion Oswald, September 2013
Why defining what counts as personal data is important for data protection and information sharing.
By Iain Bourne, September 2013
People think they want anonymity, but actually desire privacy. But how do we reframe the debate surrounding privacy and security? Perhaps technology is the answer.
By David Birch, September 2013
Strengths and weaknesses of the leader in a new generation of emerging cryptocurrencies.
By Dominic Hobson, September 2013
A decade since the first version was released, Tor continues to be at the center of the debate around online privacy.
By Kelley Misata, September 2013
We continue our conversation on open access ("Information Wants to be Free" XRDS Spring 2013) by taking a closer look at a few recent developments, which highlight some of the conflicting interests fueling the debate over academic publishing.
By Inbal Talgam-Cohen, Peter Kinnaird, June 2013
Reflections on the place of qualitative methods in ICTD work.
By Sumitra Nair, December 2012
This article stitches together the current journey of ICTD researchers based in Africa who formed a virtual network, which hopes to contribute toward the enhancement of representation within the academic ICTD community.
By Kathleen Diga, December 2012
How a Ph.D. graduate went from theoretical computer scientist to water-sensor analyzer.
By Amitai Armon, June 2012