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Empowering global insights with geospatial data
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published in AidData’s Blog: The First Tranche and the Cloudera Foundation website. In April 2021, the Cloudera Foundation merged with the Patrick J. McGovern...
June 26, 1968: Town attempts punch-card ballots and computer tabulation in 1968 elections
The town of Arlington, MA attempted to bring computers into their election process. A bug in a computer program for vote tabulation resulted in a return to hand counting. “Town...
June 21, 1967: Computer languages COBOL and ADPAC revolutionize business world
The digital revolution was underway. A new computer language, ADPAC, joined COBOL and RPG in the race to transform the business world. Computerworld Volume 1, Issue 1 published on June...
Karen Kelley Gill
Karen serves as the Vice President of Finance at the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. With more than thirty years of experience in the non-profit and philanthropic arena, Karen’s primary expertise...
The Hidden Genius Project: leading incubator of young Black male entrepreneurs and technologists
In 2012, five entrepreneurs, all African American men, wanted to create a program for young Black men that would open the doors to technology, entrepreneurship, and leadership. They launched The...
Chronicle of Philanthropy op-ed: Philanthropy needs to prepare for AI
Artificial intelligence presents itself in both grand and mundane ways. It accelerates the scientific process, leading most recently to the development of Covid-19 vaccines at record speed. It runs self-driving...
Op-ed: To build it back better, nonprofits must become data guardians
Data use and ownership is concentrated in a few tightly held hands. Those few hands make decisions about how the data of billions of individuals is used, re-used and shared....