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Networked and Online Learning
Networked and Online Learning – 2025
Articles by Gary Natriello
Assessment
Measuring Intelligence: Artificial and Otherwise
With the growth of AI applications there is renewed interest in the measurement of intelligence. Writing in Venture Beat, Sri Ambati discusses the evolving options for assessing the capabilities of various AI offerings. The available […]
Recipes
Chicken Parmesan
Ingredients Directions
Data Analytics Research
Generative Agents in Research
With the development of artificial intelligence advancing rapidly in recent years, the prospects for applications in the social sciences seem more and more within reach. A recent paper on generative agents by Joon Sung Park […]
Assessment
Facial Recognition Technology and Individual Rights
Writing for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Emma Armstrong discusses a new report from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the Civil Rights Implications of Federal Use of Facial Recognition Technology. Noting the use of […]
Data Analytics Research
Protecting Neural Data
Writing in PC Magazine, Kate Irwin reports that California has updated its Consumer Privacy Protection Act to include neural data as a type of protected personal data. With the growth of applications that collect brain […]
Data Analytics Research
Chrome Convenience vs Data Privacy
Writing in The Verge, Emma Roth reports that Google will face a reopened lawsuit that alleges that it collects user data through Chrome without their consent. The suit concerns Chrome sync which allows users to […]
Lab Notes
Time for the Moon
On earth we have come to take time keeping for granted. We know what time it is where we are and we can easily find the time in any location on the earth. Atomic clocks […]
Learning Settings
Settings and Performance
We often take the settings for performance for granted, but a recent article by Liam Tharme in the New York Times highlights the importance of the settings in which individuals perform. Tharme tells the story […]
Data Analytics Research
Visibility and Control of AI Models
With the development and growing popularity of large language models, various concerns have been raised. These concerns have included the quality of the information generated, the fairness of how individuals and groups are represented in […]