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May 7, 2014:Tim Berners-Lee warns Facebook against web takeover
May 3, 2014:Oshani Seneviratne and Weihua Li win Best Communication app at the AT&T Public Safety Focused Mobile App Hackthon in Washingto, DC
March 12, 2014:Web founder Berners-Lee calls for online 'Magna Carta' to protect users
March 11, 2014:Tim Berners-Lee: 25 years on, the Web still needs work (Q&A)
March 3, 2014:White House Big Data Privacy Workshop at MIT event co-chaired by Daniel J. Weitzner
November 7, 2013:Tim Berners-Lee calls for international protections for whistleblowers
November 6, 2013: Tim Berners-Lee: encryption cracking by spy agencies 'appalling and foolish'
October 29, 2013:Hal Abelson: MIT and the Aaron Swartz Affair
October 4, 2013:The Lessons of Aaron Swartz
September 30, 3013: Building disaster-relief phone apps on the fly
September 12, 2013:Kagal Promoted to Principal Research Scientist
August 23, 2013: Tim Berners-Lee is the Robert Oppenheimer of the internet, we should salute him for it
July 30, 2013: Report to the President: MIT and the Prosecution of Aaron Swartz
July 12, 2013: Tim Berners-Lee: Net neutrality 'regulation needed'
June 26, 2013: Tim Berners-Lee: internet freedom must be safeguarded
June 26, 2013: Tim Berners-Lee warns against governments controlling the Web
June 26, 2013: Sir Tim Berners-Lee slams governments for 'seriously spying' on the internet
June 10, 2013: Tim Berners-Lee calls NSA surveillance an 'intrusion on basic human rights'
May 31, 2013: Civic Media at Sun Yat Sen University – Hal Abelson
March 29, 2013: Ex-White House Official Joins Group Fighting "Excessive" Online Privacy Laws
March 18, 2013: Berners-Lee wins engineering prize for world wide web
March 7, 2013: Weitzner honored with International Association of Privacy Professionals Leadership Award
February 2, 2013: Common Knowledge in the Info Age
January 23, 2013: The Tech publishes letters from Professor Hal Abelson, President L. Rafael Reif
January 13, 2013: MIT’s President Orders Internal Investigation Into Its Handling Of Aaron Swartz’s Case
October 5, 2012: Fuming Shih and Frances Zhang, CSAIL, are investigating how much smartphone apps know about users
June 25, 2012: Weitzner departing White House for MIT
April 30, 2012:Abelson Honored as Outstanding Educator
April 20, 2012: Tim Berners-Lee Says UK's Net Spying Plans Would Be 'Destruction Of Human Rights'
April 11, 2012:Tim Berners-Lee: Tell Facebook, Google you want your data back
February 12, 2012: Web Firms to Adopt 'No Track' Button
February 8, 2012: Tim Berners-Lee Takes the Stand to Keep the Web Free
March 23, 2012: Connecting The Dots: Lessons in Rebellion From the Math Network(Hal Abelson quoted)
March 28, 2012: MIT's building-block dev kit goes NFC(Hal Abelson quoted)
September 7, 2011:Locu Raises $600K from Boston Angels to Boost Local Search(Founded out of MIT, Startup from 6.898 Fall 2010 raises $600K seed round )
September 7, 2011:Local Business Data Provider Locu Raises Seed Round (Linked Data Ventures, Startup from 6.898 Fall 2010)
September 7, 2011Locu, Formerly Goodplates, Raises Seed Funding to Pursue Online Menu Platform(Linked Data Ventures, Startup from 6.898 Fall 2010)
August 19, 2011: Tim Berners-Lee voted most inspirational person in their 50s
August 17, 2011: App Inventor gets a new take on life thanks to MIT, AndroidPress.com (Hal Abelson App Inventor)
August 16, 2011: MIT Launches New Center for Mobile Learning, MIT Press (Hal Abelson quoted)
August 16, 2011: MIT gets Google gift for new Center for Mobile Learning, Mass High Tech (Hal Abelson)
June 6, 2011: Ben Barenblat awarded Paul E. Gray Fund for UROP (Summer 2011)
June 3, 2011: The ascendance of App Inventor, O'Reilly Radar (Hal Abelson App Inventor)
June 2, 2011: Obama Administration Tries ‘Carrot and Stick’ on Web Privacy, The Wall Street Journal (quotes Daniel Weitzner)
May 25, 2011: Web Science - helping ensure the healthy development of the future Web, U. OF Southampton ECS News (Quotes Tim)
May 19, 2011: Google Celebrates MIT’s 150th Anniversary,Search Engine Journal (Hal Abelson helped create App Inventor)
May 2, 2011: Oshani Seneviratne Selected For Yahoo! Key Scientific Challenges Program
April 21, 2011: Web creator, Sir Tim Berners-Lee calls on governments to preserve net neutrality, The Economic Times
April 18, 2011: Tim Berners-Lee warns over threats to online freedom , BBC News
March 24, 2011: Patchwork of Laws Means Company Headaches , International Association of Privacy Professionals (quotes Daniel Weitzner)
March 23, 2011: Google, Internet Companies Face Too Many Privacy Rules, U.S. Official Says, Bloomberg (quotes Daniel Weitzner)
March 10, 2011: Daniel Weitzner is the new White House deputy CTO for Internet policy, gov20.govfresh
December 2010: Fuming Shih winner of the 2010 Roberto Padovani Scholarship, Qualcomm, Inc.
November 2010: The Web is threatened in CNET about Tim's Scientific American article
November 2010: K. Waterman and Sam Wang win Best Paper Award at IEEE Homeland Security Conference 2010
October 2010: W3C and DIG organize a workshop on Privacy and data usage control
September 2010: Our new course titled Linked Data Ventures is aimed at teaching students about Semantic Web technology and about building a working prototype and producing a viable business pitch.
July 2010: Google’s Do-It-Yourself App Creation Software a NYT article about Hal's App Inventor work at Google
June 2010: Summer UROP openings are available. DIG has three UROP projects.
22 December 2009: Register for the Linked Data Product Development Lab offered by DIG CSAIL and MIT Entrepreneurship Center during IAP 2010.
2 April 2009: MIT Undergraduates - summer UROP openings are available for CSAIL Hacker Heaven. DIG has five UROP projects: "Advanced Open Social Microblogging", "Advanced Web Application: Tabulator", " Online Data Integration Using Semantic Web technologies", "Policy Assurance for Database Queries", and "Policy-Based Reasoning for Information Handling Control in Decentralized (Web) Environments".
21 March 2008: Daniel Weitzner is interviewed in an NPR Science Friday broadcast on Online Privacy.
25 February 2008: Daniel Weitzner testifies at US Federal Communications Commission hearing on Net Neutrality and Broadband Network Management. [slides][webcast]
1 March 2007: Tim Berners-Lee offers testimony to the United States House of Representatives Internet and Telecommunications Subcommittee hearing on the Future of the World Wide Web.
8-12 January 2007: Semantic Web Bootcamp, and MIT IAP course taught by Tim Berners-Lee with special guests Jim Hendler, m c schraefel and Daniel Weitzner.
28 August 2006: Report on TAMI/Portia Workshop on Privacy and Accountability published. (See Feigenbaum and Weitzner (eds.), "Report on the 2006 TAMI/Portia Workshop on Privacy and Accountability.")
PORTIA-TAMI sponsored Workshop on Privacy and Accountability: 28-29 June 2006 at MIT CSAIL