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Program Spotlight

Program Spotlight: Introducing the Trust Collaboratory

By Cristian Capotescu and Gil Eyal, Columbia University [For the Spring 2023 SKAT Newsletter] TrustWorkers Project exhibition June 2022 at Columbia University Trust is one of the twenty-first century’s defining social and political issues. Trust, or lack thereof, shapes how citizens interact with media, information technology, and expert systems. Despite, or perhaps precisely because trust undergirds our ability as a society to share physical as … Continue reading Program Spotlight: Introducing the Trust Collaboratory

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Fall 2016 Newsletter out

Our newest edition of SKATology is out today. I want to thank the members of our communications committee for their fine work. I also want to thank Scott Frickel for his leadership on late-breaking news that changed how we thought about our newsletter content. As readers can see for themselves, there is a lot to think through. Continue reading Fall 2016 Newsletter out

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Presidential Outlook on Science and Technology Issues

by Joe McCartney Waggle, Communications Committee “Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace.” So began the worst-case scenario speech sitting in President Richard Nixon’s coat pocket as the Apollo 11 mission prepared to leave the moon in July 1969. The world watched Neil Armstrong leave footprints in the … Continue reading Presidential Outlook on Science and Technology Issues

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TECHNOLOGY THAT “WORKS FOR US AND NOT AGAINST US”

During the 2016 State of the Union address, President Obama proposed that one of the four “big questions” that the United States needs to answer is: “How do we make technology work for us, and not against us–especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges?” For our inaugural blog post, the SKAT Publications Committee invited contributors to respond to Obama’s statement. Responses consider issues such … Continue reading TECHNOLOGY THAT “WORKS FOR US AND NOT AGAINST US”

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Recent Posts

  • Q&A with Elizabeth Popp Berman, Author of Thinking Like an Economist
  • New Publications from Section Members (2022-2023)
  • Q&A with Oliver Rollins, author of Conviction
  • Q&A with Victor Roy, author of Capitalizing on a Cure
  • Program Spotlight: Introducing the Trust Collaboratory
  • Q&A with Diane Vaughan, Author of Dead Reckoning
  • Q&A with Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra, Author of The Quantified Scholar
  • Q&A with Janet Vertesi, Author of Shaping Science: Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA’s Teams
  • Q&A with Kathleen (Casey) Oberlin, Author of Creating the Creation Museum: How Fundamentalist Beliefs Come to Life
  • Q&A with Jeremiah Morelock, Author of Pandemics, Authoritarian Populism, and Science Fiction

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