February 2014

How It All Began...

Everybody knows Steve Job’s speech where he said: “The only way to do a great work is to love what you do.”

I realized how much I love to write while I was working in a personal agency in Slovakia. I had a chance to write about communication, soft skills, networking and many other interesting topics. It was...

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New Blogger: Klaudia!

We are very excited to welcome Klaudia to the HSSPA blog! She will write about her experiences in Cambridge as well as a variety of other topics. Here’s a little about her in her own words:

Although I come from Slovakia I currently reside in Cambridge Massachusetts. I am a member and a blogger for the Harvard Student Spouses and Partners Association (HSSPA). I quit Medical School once I realized that Business was my cup of coffee, something where I see myself in the future. Before I moved to the US I worked as a Business Development Manager in a...

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Feb 24: "Privacy Implications of Measuring Large-Scale Social Networks With High Resolution" (Arek Stopczynski)

Technology in Government (TIG) and Topics in Privacy (TIP)

2/24/2014 refreshments served at 2:30p, discussion 3 to 4pm in room K354,  at 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138.  

Title: Privacy Implications of Measuring Large-Scale Social Networks With High Resolution

Discussant: Arek Stopczynski

Our capabilities of sensing complex social systems with high...

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Latanya Sweeney's new blog "Tech@FTC"

As a first step to engaging external thinkers who are interested in participating in innovative solutions at the intersection of technology and governance, Latanya Sweeney (FTC Chief Technologist & Privacy Tools project co-PI) intends to use the Tech@FTC blog to facilitate explorations and ignite brainstorming on FTC-related topics. The first post is online. Feel free to engage.

http://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/techftc/2014/02/my-phone-your-service...

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News: Dataverse Plugin Release

The Public Knowledge Project is excited to announce the first public release of the Dataverse Network plugin for Open Journal Systems 2.3+. This plugin has been developed by PKP in collaboration with Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science, with support from the Sloan Foundation, and an earlier version was demonstrated at the 2013 PKP conference in Mexico City. It represents the continued improvement of both platforms — OJS’ SWORD library, and Dataverse’s API.

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