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An open call to technology companies: Do More, Know Less
Photo by Tracy Le Blanc from Pexels For over a decade, we’ve been told that participating in a connected digital world requires giving up our personal data, our privacy, and...
Feb. 20, 1995: Massachusetts builds 'motor voter' system
“Massachusetts drives ‘motor voter’ system” published in Computerworld Volume 29, Issue 8 on February 20, 1995 To comply with the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, Massachusetts built a centralized voter...
Feb. 20, 1995: Videoconferencing gains popularity
“Videoconferencing slowly goes desktop” published in Computerworld Volume 29, Issue 8 on Feb. 20, 1995 Videoconferencing proved to be useful for productivity and collaboration, though high costs limited user adoption....
Feb. 5, 1990: MIT's Project Athena advances distributed computing
A collaborative project born to advance computing infrastructure at MIT led to important developments in distributed computing. “Petitioning the gods of distributed computing” published in Computerworld Volume 24, Issue 6...
May 3, 1993: Computer users overwhelmed by new "unstructured" information streams
A flood of new information streams led to the birth of “information overload” for computer users. “Grow with the information flow” published in Computerworld Volume 27, Issue 18 on May...
May 3, 1993: Computer industry adopts green policies
In response to concerns about landfill waste from discarded computers and government incentives to be more energy efficient, companies adopted new environmentally friendly standards in the 1990s. “PC makers embrace...
Data projects secret to success is not the algorithm
Courtesy of The Rockefeller Foundation Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Rockefeller Foundation in its AI+1 report and appeared on the Cloudera Foundation website. In April 2021,...
What is the Data4Change Accelerator?
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the Cloudera Foundation website. In April 2021, the Cloudera Foundation merged with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. July 30, 2020 Cloudera Foundation embarks...
How can you track the spread of COVID-19 in the absence of wide-scale testing?
Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared on the Cloudera Foundation website. In April 2021, the Cloudera Foundation merged with the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. by Nikita Japra June 9, 2020...