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Hany Farid on the Rise of ‘AI Slop’ and Online Pranksters

Researchers have sounded alarms about realistic generative AI images and videos bolstering bad actors to create ever-more ...
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Probing the limits of mobile phone metadata for poverty prediction and impact evaluation

Barriga-Cabanillas, O., Blumenstock, J. E., Lybbert, T. J., & Putman, D. S. (2025). Probing the limits of mobile phone metadata for Poverty Prediction and Impact Evaluation. Journal of Development ...
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Dr. James R. Chen Award

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Cryptography for Cyber and Network Security

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Special Topics in Management

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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None of us is as lazy as all of us: Social Intelligence and Loafing in Information Pools

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Beyond the Code: Cybersecurity in Context

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Women in MIDS

The Women in MIDS initiative supports women in the program in a variety of ways. We host focused discussions for women in the program — including faculty, students, and alumni — about their ...
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Big Data and Development

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Pradipta Ariyo Bhaskoro Hendri

My name is Bas Hendri. I currently work on the Face Understanding team within Microsoft Analog. Our team's flagship product, facial recognition in Windows Hello, is one of the best reasons to use ...
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Differential Privacy in Practice: Expose your Epsilons!

Differential privacy is at a turning point. Implementations have been successfully leveraged in private industry, the public sector, and academia in a wide variety of applications, allowing scientists ...