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The Discussion of the Decade: Join Us!

December 7, 2020

As we approach the end of this challenging year, we at the Marconi Society are finding energy and inspiration in a project I believe could

Meet Kai Vernooy, 2020 Broadcom MASTERS Marconi-Samueli Award Winner

November 30, 2020

14-year-old Kai Vernooy won the prestigious Marconi-Samueli Prize at this year’s 2020 Broadcom MASTERS event, a three-day STEM competition for the country’s brightest middle school scientists.

Building the New STEM Workforce: A Conversation with Silicon Harlem’s Clayton Banks

November 9, 2020

Everyone needs a connection. That’s the newly updated motto of Silicon Harlem, an NYC-based social enterprisey innovating workforce development strategies to create a more digitally

A Proposal for Ethical Technology

October 27, 2020

The Marconi Fellows helped to create many of the innovations that enable unprecedented sharing of information, networks to build and mobilize a community, and economic

Digital Literacy is Essential for Democracy

October 20, 2020

By Samantha Schartman-Cycyk If you live in the U.S., like I do, odds are you are either planning your trip to the ballot box, have

Avalon Cycyk attends school from her desk at home.

Education in the Age of COVID: Connectivity is Just the Beginning

September 21, 2020

By Samantha Schartman-Cycyk It’s Monday. My alarm goes off at 5:30 a.m. and I’m dragging myself to the shower by 6. By 6:30 a.m. my

Get to Know 2020 Young Scholar Yasaman Ghasempour

September 10, 2020

This year, the Marconi Society named three Paul Baran Young Scholars, an award that recognizes emerging researchers from around the world whose work shapes the future of advanced communications technology. The 2020 Young Scholars, Yasaman Ghasempour, Vikram Iyer, and Piotr Roztocki, represent three distinct areas of research within communications. In this series of Q&As, we’re highlighting each Young Scholar and digging into the work that earned them the award.

Our first Q&A features Yasaman Ghasempour, who will join Princeton University as an Assistant Professor in January, 2021.

The Digital Divide Complicates School Reopening Plans

September 1, 2020

As we mark the beginning of the school year, Vint Cerf and Martin “Marty” Cooper, two luminaries in Internet and communications technology, weigh in on the challenges facing virtual learning.

Progress or Empty Promises? Five Young Technologists Share Their Experience With the Gender Divide in Engineering

August 26, 2020

Aakanksha Chowdhery, Machine Learning Engineer, Google Brain 2012 Marconi Society Young Scholar Community is Key The concept of diversity extends beyond the differences captured by