USA Today
Biden’s Build Back Better bill would speed up conversion to electric mail trucks at struggling USPS
November 10, 2021
James S. O'Rourke IV, professor of management at the University of Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business, calls the proposal "a very big deal" for the postal service and its customers.
ND Experts
Mendoza College of Business
Catholic News Service
Divided court considers role of chaplains in the execution chamber
November 09, 2021
Prior to the arguments, John Meiser, supervising attorney of Notre Dame Law School’s Religious Liberty Clinic, said it is “difficult to see in Texas’ newest policy anything other than callousness toward those it has condemned to die.”
Daily Mail
Engineers design 3D-printed robot 'ants' that can walk over leaves, link up like a centipede and call for help by themselves
November 08, 2021
Engineers at University of Notre Dame created a simple but effective swarm of six-inch 'robot' ants that were able to overcome obstacles and terrain individually, and link up to form longer chains when they couldn't accomplish a task alone.
Our Sunday Visitor
Opening the Word: A serious end
November 08, 2021
Timothy P. O’Malley, Ph.D., is the director of education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
McGrath Institute for Church Life
Foreign Policy
As Colombia’s Peace Crumbles, Female Guerrillas Wonder What’s Left for Them
November 06, 2021
But gender provisions have been far less implemented than the rest of the accords, according to the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame, and much of the political initiatives by ex-FARC women have stalled.
Fortune
Last year, advertisers boycotted Facebook over hate speech. Today, they’re silent
November 05, 2021
“It’s perhaps not something that people can galvanize around very easily and could be why they don’t see it as something that they need to take a stand on now,” said Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Mendoza College of Business
Salon
Limits to growth: Can AI’s voracious appetite for data be tamed?
November 05, 2021
"It seems to me that the big internet companies are very reluctant to even talk about this because it threatens their core business," said Walter Scheirer, a computer scientist at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Computer Science and Engineering
Bloomberg
Wall Street Legend Perelman’s Family Trust Tied to Mystery Loans
November 03, 2021
And one particular line jumps out at Lloyd Mayer, a professor at Notre Dame Law School who focuses on nonprofits and charities and who has read the filings.
ND Experts
Notre Dame Law School
CNN
Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition software
November 02, 2021
Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame, called the decision "a good example of regulatory pressure", as the company's facial-recognition system had long been targeted by regulators.
ND Experts
Mendoza College of Business
The Washington Post
Draft of U.S. Catholic bishops’ Communion document doesn’t mention Biden or abortion
November 02, 2021
For Timothy O’Malley, academic director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy, the national controversy about Biden and Communion distracted from the fact that U.S. bishops had been working before his election on a plan to renew the Eucharist.
ND Experts
McGrath Institute for Church Life
Associated Press
Facebook to shut down face-recognition system, delete data
November 02, 2021
The decision “is a good example of trying to make product decisions that are good for the user and the company,” said Kristen Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame.
ND Experts
Mendoza College of Business
Business Insider
Facebook is shutting down its controversial facial recognition system over 'societal concerns'
November 02, 2021
Kirsten Martin, a professor of technology ethics at the University of Notre Dame, said the trove of biometric data represents a vulnerability for Meta that will now be muted.
ND Experts
Mendoza College of Business