Dakota digital discussions

A series of webinars that will respond to the ongoing impacts that digitization, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems are having on our society.

Prairie Public Radio Mainstreet Program interview

Patrick McCloskey, editor of the Dakota Digital Review, talks about the current edition of the Dakota Digital Review.

DDD Archives

The Divided Brain, the Humanities, & AI
Iain McGilchrist, a psychiatrist, writer, and former Oxford literary scholar.

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Higher Education
Blake A. Klinkner, PhD, UND School of Law

Cyber Science and Ethics
NDUS DDA Director of Social and Ethical Implications Patrick McCloskey on Prairie Public Radio

Automation and Speed in the Face of Cyber Insecurity: A Question of Trust
NDUS Chancellor Mark Hagerott asks what he terms the most important questions ever. "Have we compromised trust and resilience or speed and efficiency in our rush to digitize? As the technological elites automated and accelerated military and business processes, uploading more and more data in the Cloud, what vulnerabilities have been created now and for future generations"

Humans, Machines, and Cyber Space
NDUS Chancellor Mark Hagerott leads a conversation on the explosion of AI capability, demonstrated by CHAT-GPT released late last year. The question of the Age will be: how to begin to share the planet and our societies with a new form of intelligence.

The Builder Economy: How AI is Making Everyone a Developer
Scott Meyer is an entrepreneur, educator, writer, dad, husband, and runner based in Fargo, ND. He is the founder of co-founder and CEO of Chipp.AI, the easiest payment solution for generative AI developers, unlocking pay-for-use by copying a single line of code.

In Defense of (Virtuous) Autonomous Systems
with Professor Don Howard, University of Notre Dame

IT and Digital Workforce Needs in North Dakota
with Marcia Havens, ND Job Service; Troy Walker, TechND and Dakota Carrier Network; Tony Ambrose, TechND and Nexus Innovations; and Taya Spelhaug, TechND and Microsoft

The Unencrypted History of Cryptography
with Professor Marcus Fries, Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, DSU

North Dakota's UAS Ecosystem is Critical to Keeping Up With Our Adversaries
with Sen. Kevin Cramer, U.S. Senator from North Dakota

Overlooked Security Challenges in Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure
with Zahid Anwar, Computer Science, NDSU

Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our World: Are We Ready?
With Nikola Datzov, Assistant Professor at the School of Law, University of North Dakota

Digital Forensics - Cybersecurity Pros Helping Law Enforcement
with Dr. Arica Kulm, Director of Digital Forensic Services at the DigForCE Lab

Cryptocurrency, Smart Contracts, and the Future of Blockchain Commerce
with Professor Fred Riggins, NDSU College of Business

Future War and Future Peace: Technology's Role in Future Conflict
with USAF Maj. Gen. (Ret.) Robert H. Latiff, PhD

Digital Transformation: Technology, Business, and Career
with Steve Malme, NDSU Graduate and Career IT Expert

Data is the New Oil: Data Analytics and Business Degree Graduates
With Ross Manson, Chief Practice Officer with Eide bailly

The Dakota Digital Discussions is an offspring of the Dakota Digital Academy (DDA). The DDA was founded to help students and professionals develop and
upskill cyber knowledge and skills.