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    Striving for Equality: Part 3 of 3

    In my previous article I wrote about the importance of the role of a mother in raising children. Our decisions later in life, our values and priorities, they are affected by the way our parents raised us. When a boy is trying to be a leader and manage other kids, we say, it is ok. But when a girl acts that way, we named her as “bossy”. Mostly parents know, that it is time to raise and approach our kids equally and give them equal opportunities.

    If you ask young men how they did such a good job, they would say “I just do it, and it is great!” We don’t accept that answer for women....

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    May 19: Charles River Workshop on Private Analysis of Social Networks

    The Charles River Workshop on Private Analysis of Social Networks will take place on Monday, May 19, from 9 am to 5 pm, at the Hariri Institute, 111 Cummington St, MCS 180, Boston University. There will be talks and a discussion session covering different aspects of the challenge of performing and releasing analyses of graph data while protecting personal information. The...

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    May 19: "Healthcare Privacy and Intellectual Property Rights Protection with Accountable Systems"

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

    5/19/2014 2:30 - 3pm refreshments, discussion 3- 4pm in room K354, 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138

    Title: Healthcare Privacy and Intellectual Property Rights Protection with Accountable Systems

    Discussant: Oshani Seneviratne, MIT

    I will describe an infrastructure that enables data transparency and ...

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    "Technology Science" (Latanya Sweeney, Chief Technologist, FTC)

    Latanya Sweeney is using the Tech@FTC blog to facilitate explorations and ignite brainstorming on FTC-related topics among scholars interested in participating in innovative solutions at the intersection of technology, business and policy. Her latest blog post is titled "Technology Science" and can be read on FTC.gov as well as here below:

    Technology Science

    By: Latanya...

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    Warm Welcome

    By Lucy Forster-Smith

    Lucy Forster-SmithI arrived in January to my new position as Sedgwick Chaplain to the University and Senior Minister in the Memorial Church in a blizzard.... Read more about Warm Welcome

    Summary Report of "Big Data Privacy Workshop: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practice" (MIT)

    The MIT Big Data Initiative at CSAIL has released its summary report of the March 3, 2014 workshop "Big Data Privacy: Advancing the State of the Art in Technology and Practice". This document is intended as a record of the workshop, the talks and discussions.

    Link to summary report (PDF): http://web.mit.edu/bigdata-priv/images/MITBigDataPrivacyWorkshop2014_final05142014.pdf...

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    Published Article on the OJS-Dataverse Integration in IJDC

    Good news! For those of you interested in reading more about the project in an article format, we just recently had an article published in the International Journal of Digital Curation (2014, Vol. 9, Issue 1). This paper was originally presented at the 9th International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) in San Francisco, CA. You can access the article...

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    New Report: “Integrating Privacy Approaches across the Research Lifecycle: Long-term Longitudinal Studies”

    A number of contributors to the Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data project have recently been published a workshop report, titled "Integrating Privacy Approaches across the Research Lifecycle: Long-term Longitudinal Studies." The abstract and publisher's link are included below

    “Integrating Privacy Approaches across the Research Lifecycle: Long-term Longitudinal Studies”

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    Pentecost & Prosperity: The Ethics of Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements

    Jonathan L. Walton will teach "Pentecost & Prosperity: The Ethics of Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements (HDS 3251)" this Fall 2014 Term. 

    Course Description
    Pentecostal-Charismatic movements represent the fastest growing segments of global Christianity. The aim of this lecture course is to trace the historical and ethical formations of such movements in several global contexts, including, but not limited to, the United States, Latin America, West Africa, and South Korea. We will pay particular attention to rationales for...

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    NMC Horizon Report Lists Privacy Tools as an Exemplar of Multidisciplinary Research

    The Horizon Project of New Media Consortium (NMC) publishes several reports online detailing trends in the usage of technology in education. In the 2014 Library Edition, the Privacy Tools for Research Data project is listed among a small number of exemplars of multidisciplinary research projects.

    The report may be accessed here.

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