Artificial Intelligence
Workforce Training Needed to Address Artificial Intelligence Bias, Researchers Suggest
Building on the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Antitrust
Institute for Technology and Innovation Foundation Panelists Defend Big Tech Against Antitrust Charges
During a panel hosted by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, three expert discussed the effect of antitrust legislation on big tech. The panelists all defended big tech from antitrust laws and urged many to be cautious about claiming they have the solution to regulating these compl
Education
How Educational Institutions and Tech Businesses Are Developing Workforces of the Future
January 14, 2021 — A rising concern in the business world is the lack of emerging professionals with technology-based skills. According to expert panelists speaking at CTA’s 2021 Consumer Electronics Show, the growing need for an emerging workforce equipped with skills to handle the jobs of tomorrow
Antitrust
Debaters Consider Whether a New Agency to Regulate Tech Platforms Would Do More Harm Than Good
November 9, 2020 – At a formal debate on whether technology platforms require a new regulatory regime, two well-established experts also clashed over how seriously policy-makers should take the recent House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee report on breaking up big tech companies. In the Technology
Antitrust
Federal Trade Commissioners Disagree About Role of Antitrust Lawsuits Against Big Tech
October 20, 2020 — In the midst of the largest lawsuit against a tech giant in decades, Google, the Technology Policy Institute hosted a conversation with two current and two former Federal Trade Commissioners discussing the state of antitrust in the United States. The Tuesday event aired as part of
Broadband Breakfast
Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 — Champions of Broadband: Tom Hazlett
Broadband Breakfast Live Online on Wednesday, August 19, 2020 — Champions of Broadband: Tom Hazlett Tom Hazlett, Professor of Economics at Clemson University Drew Clark, Editor and Publisher, Broadband Breakfast WATCH HERE, or on YouTube, Twitter and Facebook. Thomas W. Hazlett holds the H.H. Maca
Broadband Roundup: Companies Impact Global Tech Standards, Accelerating C-Band Clearing, Experts Debate Antitrust
June 16, 2020 — U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross announced a new rule on Monday which he claimed will ensure the country’s telecommunications industry is able to fully contribute to global standards development activities. The new Bureau of Industry and Security rule allows licenses previously
Artificial Intelligence
Criminal Justice Reform Advocates Agree that Current AI Assessment Tools are Garbage, But Differ on How to Proceed
WASHINGTON, February 20, 2020— Measures designed to assess the likelihood of an individual’s recidivism, and to consequently decide whether a defendant awaiting trial can be released before trial, are ineffective. That was the conclusion of panelists at a Brookings Institution event titled “AI, Pred
Congress
Privacy and Civil Liberties Board Considers Three Ways for Congress to Address Controversial Surveillance Program
WASHINGTON, June 1, 2019 – Congress needs a plan for how to proceed when certain provisions of the USA FREEDOM Act, including the controversial call detail records program, expires in December, said speakers at a public forum held by members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Frid
Cybersecurity
More Data is Necessary to Make Defending Against Security Breaches a Rational Cost-Benefit Calculation
ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 18, 2017 – The key to defending against security breaches is collecting more data, said a University of Illinois at Chicago professor during a June 8 panel at the on the law and economics of privacy and data security. Hosted at George Mason University here and moderated by
Net Neutrality
Critics at Digital Policy Institute Say Net Neutrality Is a Solution In Search of a Problem
WASHINGTON, July 22, 2014 – As the Federal Communications Commission received more than a million comments on the agency’s push for net neutrality regulations governing the conduct of broadband providers, critics argued on July 15 that net neutrality is a counter-intuitive solution in search of a pr
FCC
Mercatus Gathers Experts to Debate Mobile Competition
WASHINGTON, May 19, 2011 – The Mercatus Center, a market orientated research center located at George Mason University, gathered key industry insiders to discuss how the Federal Communications Commission analyzes market competition in the wireless industry on Wednesday. “The FCC needs to look beyon
Broadband Updates
Economists Say Network Neutrality Regulation Would Harm Consumers
WASHINGTON, April 12, 2010 – A group of well-known economists has determined that the Federal Communications Commission’s proposed network neutrality regulations would harm consumer welfare.
Broadband Calendar
Former FCC Commissioner Glen Robinson Presents ‘Big Ideas About Information’ at GMU
The Information Economy Project of George Mason University School of Law will be hosting a Big Ideas About Information Lecture by University of Virginia law professor Glen Robinson on Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 4 p.m. in Room 120 of Hazel Hall. The event is free and open to the public, and a rec
FCC
Broadband Breakfast Club Environmental Session Prompts Debate Over Systems Reliability
WASHINGTON, November 11, 2009 – The creation of a “smart grid” for electricity conservation may lead to parallel telecommunications networks by both utilities and traditional telephone communications providers; whether or not this was a positive development was debated at the Broadband Breakfast Clu
Broadband Data
Telecommunications Policy Research Conference Opens Today at George Mason Law School
WASHINGTON, September 25, 2009 – The annual Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, a must-attend event for academics focused on broadband-related topics, begins at Friday at 2 p.m. ET at Geoge Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Va. It is likely to be particularly noteworthy this ye
