A talk featuring author, Josh Cowen about his new book, "The Privateers: How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Voucher", a deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives.
The web PKI, which is used to secure TLS-based web communication (HTTPS), is one of the most frequently used network security systems, enabling billions of users to securely connect to the world wide web and prevent the theft of user credentials, protect the privacy of personal information, impede stealthy wiretapping, and…
Climate change is changing the characteristic of weather extremes and slow changing climatic trends (physical climate risk). These combined with rising concentration of people and assets in high-risk areas, aging infrastructure and various macroeconomic factors, are leading to growing financial impacts on people, businesses,…
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A lively conversation between two of the brightest minds on the frontlines of democracy focused on the challenges and opportunities of the contemporary moment — including voting rights, reproductive freedom, government transparency, federalism, civil liberties, and more — with an emphasis on what’s at stake in NJ and the nation…
We are at a transformational junction in computing, in the midst of an explosion in capabilities of foundational AI models that may soon match or exceed typical human abilities for a wide variety of cognitive tasks, a milestone often termed Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). Achieving AGI (or even closely approaching it)…
Joining the Center's Behavioral Policy Works in Process noon lunch series in September will be Cass Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard and coauthor of Nudge.He will speak on Tuesday, September 17, on work for a new book. His talk is entitled “The Barbie Problem: Goods that People Buy But Wish Did Not…
Leading journalists and scholars look back at the Supreme Court Term just past and at what’s coming up on the Court’s docket when the 2024-25 Term opens the first Monday in October. Moderated by P*LAW Director Deborah Pearlstein, panelists discuss the Court’s most consequential rulings and the institution’s changing role in…
Frances C. Moore is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy and the University of California Davis. She studies the risks climate change poses to human welfare and how individuals and communities respond to mitigate those risks. Her work is highly interdisciplinary with a focus on climate…
