Emerging Tech

Resources on Emerging Tech

Privacy-Preserving Collaboration Using Cryptography —In conjunction with her May 2020 presentation, Dr. Emily Shen outlines her work on Secure multi-party computation (MPC), a type of …

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) —A collaborative body designed to rapidly accelerate the adoption of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) technology across the federal …

News and Events on Emerging Tech

19 posts

Innovation

Prioritizing Equity in Government-Led Innovation Programs

For the second year, college and university students are leveraging the TOP model from Census to build hands-on skills and address some of our nation’s most pressing challenges.

Haley Ashcom

Oct 25, 2021

Robotic Process Automation

5 Tips for Implementing Citizen Development in Your RPA Program

Guidance and best practices for federal robotic process automation programs looking to operationalize citizen developers

James Gregory

Aug 16, 2021

GSA Future Focus: Web Scraping—Often referred to as screen scraping, web harvesting, or web crawling, web scraping is a process that extracts unstructured data and text from web pages, and converts it into a form that can be easily analyzed. Learn how GSA’s Emerging Tech team has identified some best practices to help agencies use this technology responsibly and effectively. — via General Services Administration

Jul 07, 2021

Social Media

Deep Fakes and Social Media: A Q&A With Alex Cohen

Learn about the threat of deep fake technology on social media, and how to prepare your agency

Alex Cohen

Gabrielle Perret

Jun 08, 2021

ROBOTIC PROCESS AUTOMATION

3 Things You Should Know About the Federal RPA Use Case Inventory

The Federal Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Community of Practice is updating the RPA Use Case Inventory, which provides detailed information on over 300 RPA Use Cases across the federal government.

Gabrielle Perret

Jonathan Clinton

May 24, 2021

Robotic Process Automation

State of Federal RPA Report: Adoption and Impact of Robotic Process Automation in the Federal Government

The State of Federal RPA report describes the growth and maturity of Federal RPA Programs to convey agency progress in digital transformation and automation.

Jim Geoghegan

Nov 30, 2020

Artificial Intelligence

Overview of NIST Initiatives on Artificial Intelligence Standards, Principles, and Critical AI Issues

In this webinar, experts from the National Institute of Standards and Technology provide an overview of their key artificial intelligence initiatives including responsible, trustworthy, and explainable AI.

Nov 04, 2020

Transform Federal Business Operations: Join the RPA Community of Practice

We share solutions to help individual agencies overcome the challenges that arise in designing and deploying an effective robotic process automation (RPA) program.

Jim Geoghegan

Jul 10, 2020

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Open Source

AI Tech Workshop: How to Utilize the Open Source Jupyter Project for your Research

We’ll show you how easy it can be to wrangle data and engage in technical discussions surrounding data, artificial intelligence, machine-learning models.

Steven Babitch

Apr 14, 2020

New Community

Introducing the New Robotic Process Automation Community of Practice

The new community will explore opportunities, share ideas, and collaborate on how RPA can be effectively implemented in federal agencies.

Ed Burrows

May 08, 2019

235 views

Deep Dive: How a Health Tech Sprint Pioneered an AI Ecosystem

Seven teams created digital tools that help in finding experimental therapies for patients, and for clinical trials to recruit new patients.

Gil Alterovitz, PhD

Davar Ardalan

Kristen Honey, PhD

Feb 27, 2019

Video

Emerging Technology Leadership Series: Laura Manley, Harvard Technology and Public Purpose Project

In this next installment of the Emerging Technology Leadership Series we will discuss with Laura Manley, director of Harvard TAPP, what agencies should know about better understanding and managing potential risks from promising emerging technologies.

Justin Herman

Laura Manley

Dec 18, 2018