At least three years before a condominium collapsed in Surfside, Florida, killing close to 100 people, engineers knew there was a problem. Water from the pool deck above the reinforced concrete structural supports of the parking garage had been seeping into the concrete and degrading steel reinforcements. The deck lacked sufficient support to hold.
A university seminar, USEM 2570: Work in the Age of the Algorithm, will be taught by Claudia Scholz in the Spring 2024 semester.
Author: Jonathan Kropko is an Assistant Professor at the School of Data Science. His research interests include civic technology, remote environmental sensing, survival and time series analysis, and missing data imputation.
Renée Cummings is a Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia focused on the responsible, ethical and equitable use of data and artificial intelligence (AI) technology.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an established San Francisco-based nonprofit organization defending online privacy and free expression, is looking for a full-time manager to lead our Public Interest Technology team. If you want to use your management skills and technical knowledge to have an outsized impact on the future of digital rights, this is the opportunity for you.
The School of Data Science and the Karsh Institute of Democracy at the University of Virginia invite applications from activists, journalists, policymakers, artists, and other practitioners for the 2023-2024 Fellow in Data and Democracy.
The PIT-UN Challenge first launched in 2019 to seed and support initiatives that grow public interest technology in higher education, particularly those that involve end-users and communities impacted by technologies in their development. In 2023, the Challenge will build on this foundation by focusing on two specific areas:
The Public Interest Technology University Network is pleased to announce the launch of the Multi-institution or Regional Career Fair Mini Challenge on February 15, 2023.