CUNY Academic Commons | Jessie McCormack | Activity https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/members/jmccormack/activity/ Activity feed for Jessie McCormack. Sat, 01 Jan 2050 18:00:18 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en 30 hourly 2 d25a2b49d05ed16a288a82dfa78458ec Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=6346 Thu, 14 Apr 2022 17:48:47 -0400 Interview with Laura Wildemann KaneLaura Wildemann Kane is an assistant professor in Philosophy at Worcester State University, as well as a faculty fellow for the […]

]]> e7dafda609307dbb4f3f7653b5891d05 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18542 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 17:16:30 -0400 In this article, Samuel Matlack reflects on socio-cultural commentary from Jacques Ellul on contemporary technological society. Despite the title and subtitle, Matlack doesn’t actually address how one is set […]

]]> 2af744849ca6c4b0a8ead4cef574c355 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18536 Tue, 05 Apr 2022 15:49:17 -0400 In this article from “The Guardian,” Mark Keierleber discusses the disturbing presence of surveillance in schools. This surveillance was introduced to monitor students either going maskless or wearing masks […]

]]> 0966dd6a8f023d4054589d7654b25ae4 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18498 Tue, 22 Mar 2022 14:33:58 -0400 In this article, Nick Chavez–a mechanical engineer–reflects on the role engineers have in rendering workers non-experts as more expertise is transferred to the machine that gets used. Something that once had […]

]]> 8c63f116f2e0d5a6215db72cabe0a7bd Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18489 Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:46:44 -0400 This article covers some of the exciting developments in surfing technology: surfboards with propellers; a pump that generates surfable waves; and a watch that helps prevent shark attacks. Read more in […]

]]> f3aef746b8d7c404aaa887e586533718 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18486 Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:46:03 -0400 In this article, David Lumb talks about how Ukrainians are staying in touch with each other, as well as informing the world, using cell phones. Ukrainians can lose Wi-Fi access from bombings or connectivity being […]

]]> f926c176c8a29453251f306378adf878 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18438 Sat, 05 Mar 2022 17:51:11 -0500 This article discusses what is being done in light of Russia cracking down on and arresting those protesting the war against Ukraine. Individuals have taken to posting information in ‘code’ that can be discerned […]

]]> 5f077efe5bde7959138a9bbc79eb77e8 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18440 Fri, 04 Mar 2022 06:32:01 -0500 This article provides a brief introduction to the work Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace, by Ryan Ellis and Yuan Stevens. Their report is about the hackers hired to find […]

]]> 9969924cd0e7be242e3234ca39f83e6f Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18435 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:49:32 -0500  

An alternative to pink & blue: Colors for gender data

This article discusses how gender data is colored, as news rooms and other presenters of such data move away from the stereotypical pink (for women) […]

]]> 38f1b1b9e2ce989045574463927fe5ad Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18432 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 17:48:41 -0500 Claire Woodcock’s recent article (link below) discusses the importance of archiving digital cultural information during times of war, particularly when cyber warfare is being waged against the nation right […]

]]> bc1bdb1e9c1d564d28074b07b8e80814 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18378 Fri, 18 Feb 2022 20:02:01 -0500 In an unnerving article, “I Used Apple AirTags, Tiles and a GPS Tracker to Watch My Husband’s Every Move,” Kashmir Hill describes the advanced, and affordable, technology available to individuals to track or r […]

]]> 08b5f1bd382ecbe0923081c1d07b0fd2 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18368 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 18:05:41 -0500 In this fascinating article from Wired, Aarian Marshall explains how the complexity of computer systems in cars has now resulted in thorny legal issues about intellectual property–the rights of car companies to […]

]]> 62a7826435816cb3f6b2b5ed87331ac7 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18365 Tue, 15 Feb 2022 17:47:35 -0500 In this timely article, Amanda Besar, Jennifer Li, and Valentina Vera Quiroz–writing for the Institute for Rebooting Social Media–re-cap the discussions from workshops dedicated to analyzing the interactions […]

]]> 66759382d84a8ff769c5a64e78e8101c Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=18341 Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:08:02 -0500 Check out these upcoming Digital Humanities workshops and institutes, on myriad fascinating topics and hosted by various universities and institutions!

1. NYC Digital Humanities Week– February 7-11, 2022

2. […]

]]> 9fb8e4665fa90ac859d7bf2c3ec5945e Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=17973 Tue, 21 Sep 2021 20:26:09 -0400 The MS Program in Data Analysis and Visualization and the Mina Rees Library invite you to attend a talk this week by data artist Jer Thorpe.

Living in Data
Jer Thorp
September 22, 6:30pm-8pm
Register on […]

]]> 5f6fe51c1c7503e8b9b3a68a0229cbe4 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=19868 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 17:34:41 -0400 Lessons from the DRI – Coding & Communication: Knowing What We Say Rather than What We Mean The GC Digital Research Institute (DRI) educates in more ways even than advertised. GC Digital Initiatives (GCDI), the program that […]

]]> 5f255aa6997912a3a665a0478fcf385b Jessie McCormack joined the group PUG – Python User’s Group https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/744868/ Sat, 20 Feb 2021 17:40:30 -0500 cb81f3af39d22f99a73548bc10aa1343 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=17293 Mon, 02 Nov 2020 17:07:57 -0500 Robert McNamara is remembered as JFK’s and LBJ’s secretary of defense, who was a primary motivator in escalating the Vietnam War. What is less known about McNamara–as discussed in this recent MIT Technology […]

]]> 0ef1c6200c6f0f5c04ea12e5fe158679 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=17258 Thu, 22 Oct 2020 20:48:09 -0400 This article from MIT discusses a new paper from University of Waterloo (Ontario), in which researchers suggest that there may be a way to trim down on the number of examples needed to jump-start an AI model. […]

]]> 7ab22482292b541b6520d16ee8dea9a4 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=17227 Mon, 19 Oct 2020 15:38:30 -0400 This article from The New Yorker dives into the longstanding content moderation troubles at Facebook. At heart is the difficulty of balancing a platform that values “free speech,” on the one hand, with […]

]]> 3644b637038d872e018e355357a258b5 Jessie McCormack wrote a new post on the site Digital Initiatives at the Grad Center https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/?p=17057 Mon, 28 Sep 2020 15:09:22 -0400 Google is planning to offer new services to tech companies regarding AI ethics, despite having a spotty past itself on such issues. Some services are specific, such as detecting racial biases in computing vision […]

]]> 7c998ccb41e49118b7f0d763ecc41526 Jessie McCormack joined the group Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (Public Group) https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/696801/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:45:50 -0400 7c998ccb41e49118b7f0d763ecc41526 Jessie McCormack joined the group GC Events and Workshops https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/696800/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:45:50 -0400 7c998ccb41e49118b7f0d763ecc41526 Jessie McCormack joined the group GC Digital Initiatives at the CUNY Graduate Center https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/696799/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:45:50 -0400 7c998ccb41e49118b7f0d763ecc41526 Jessie McCormack joined the group Digital Humanities Initiative https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/696796/ Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:45:50 -0400 3e8a683eee8211b4c388c0c9f6ff4a06 Jessie McCormack's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/695321/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:14:12 -0400 b316ca85ae79eab9dc1644de8716ff16 Jessie McCormack's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/517335/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 23:45:51 -0400 87bd946583d882ccb43459fcbd32b2ed Jessie McCormack's profile was updated https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/517138/ Wed, 05 Sep 2018 16:03:45 -0400 58b9db9a28b413375f2fe9d02f11bd92 Jessie McCormack became a registered member https://commons.gc.cuny.edu/activity/p/329495/ Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:01:45 -0500