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Towards collaboration between data institutions and philanthropy
Data institutions have an important role to play in helping us tackle the challenges and issues of our time. In this article, President Vilas Dhar and Jack Hardinges, the Open...
Most vulnerable people in Boston’s homeless shelters moved to safety in rapid response effort
...no way to do social distancing at the shelters. And the individuals at greatest risk had nowhere else to go. Suffolk University’s Nathan R. Miller Residence Hall Pine Street Inn...
Feb. 16, 1987: SQL establishes dominance in database query language arena
...generating such widespread excitement and rapid adoption that in 1987 Computerworld magazine published an article about it. Computerworld interviewed many major corporations and government agencies that had converted their data...
Vilas Dhar named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum
...companies, and Grammy Award winners. As the head of a 21st-century philanthropy, Dhar is driving an ambitious agenda connecting technological capacity to grand social challenges ranging from climate change to...
Jan. 15, 1969: Automated manufacturing transforms how post office box keys are made
...using the new system would be capable of producing a million keys in 100,000 unique combinations each year, completely revolutionizing a process that previously required each key to be cut...
Covid Tech Connect unites critically ill, isolated COVID-19 patients with their families
...comforting that felt for us. I’m so grateful the caregiver did that. We were lucky he had a device and the compassion to help us.” Support for COVID Tech Connect...
The Hill op-ed: COVID-19 has destroyed millions of jobs-It's time to reskill America
Foundation President Vilas Dhar argues that in order for us to recover and foster new economic opportunity after 2020’s job losses, we must invest in building a new workforce for...