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Preview: Hacking the Hackathon for the Social & Civic Good

By Kimberly Cook On February 23, 2015 0

Claire Dunn is a digital producer at Spredfast, helping organizations build meaningful relationships with their audiences through social media engagement. She helped conceptualize and develop the first ATX Hack for Change event and then served as lead organizer in the hackathon’s second year. Dunn has spent more than seven years in the tech and higher education industries […]

Hacker Girls: Why Aren’t There More Women Coders?

By Kiana Fitzgerald On March 12, 2013 1 Comment

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Stratfor CEO George Friedman’s speech interrupted by an Occupy “mic check”

By Shannon Delaney On March 13, 2012 0

George Friedman, CEO of Stratfor, a global intelligence company, came to SXSW Interactive to speak about surviving technology. However, an Occupy “mic check” broke out over Stratfor’s alleged involvement in spying and trying to bring down the Occupy Movement. The alleged involvement stems from the December hacking of Stratfor, where customers’ credit cards were charged […]