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CCT students and faculty participate in Microsoft Innovation and Policy Center Robotics and Intelligent Systems

Can anything your robot says be used against you in a court of law? What values in design can be built into intelligent systems to protect our privacy – even as networked…

May 28, 2014

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CCT faculty member Meg Ambrose in the news as expert on historic right-to-be-forgotten case

When the highest court in the European Union handed down a decision that granted EU users the right to request the removal of links pointing to their past from Google’s…

May 22, 2014

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CCT students Lucas Regner and Katie Armstrong accepted for publication

A portion of Lucas Regner‘s thesis research on personalization algorithms on YouTube — and its potential to create far-right and violent content “bubbles”…

May 22, 2014

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CCT to Launch First Online Course this Fall

The Communication, Culture and Technology (CCT) M.A. program is excited to announce the launch of our first online course, CCTP 798 – Key Concepts in Technology and How to…

May 21, 2014

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CCT Student Zhou Jia's Photo Featured on DC's Online News Portals

Having just recently graduated, Zhou Jia summarizes her two-year CCT experience with a photo, “American Cool”. The photo is featured on DC’s two online news…

May 15, 2014

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First-year CCT students showcase their de-blackboxed technology projects at the 2014 CCTP-506 poster session

Fundamentals of Technology or CCTP-506 is a class that is dedicated towards investigating technology as a dynamic part of social life. The entire semester was spent understanding…

May 5, 2014

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CCT Professor Yianna Vovides facilitates an e-learning Workshop in Botswana

CCT Professor Yianna Vovides facilitated a workshop on eLearning and strategic plan development in Gaborone, Botswana this past February. The workshop was part of the Medical…

May 2, 2014

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"CCT is my film school" – CCT student Bentley Brown argues why an interdisciplinary degree is a launchpad for future films

[If you have problems with playing the video, see it at Youtube.] In the filmmaking world, it’s now normal not to go to film school. Film school has its perks. It&…

April 10, 2014

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CCT Alumnus Presents in TEDx Fulbright Social Innovation Challenge

On April 5th, CCT ’13 alumnus Jeremy Pesner  and Fulbright New York chapter president Josephine Dorado  presented their project, ReACTor, at the…

April 8, 2014

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CCT Alumna, Sarita Bhatt, Earns Spot on Crain's Top 40 List

CCT alumna Sarita Bhatt (2001) recently earned a spot on Crain’s New York Business ’ “Top 40 under 40 ” list. In her first job, as a U.S.…

April 7, 2014