Congratulations to John Honovich for being selected as one of Time’s “100 Most Influential People in AI.” In 2008 John founded a niche trade publication called the Internet Protocol Video Market (IPVM), which aimed to provide reliable reporting on the limits of security technology. Fifteen years later, IPVM has become a leading source of information on the dangers of facial recognition technology. John leads a team of 30 journalists and researchers specializing in surveillance who review company filings and financial documents and engineers who test surveillance cameras and other security equipment. The team works to reveal issues with video surveillance, especially as governments increasingly rely on the technology.

“There are clearly deep ethical and moral problems there, but even pragmatically, I question how you can distinguish ethnic groups just by looking at them,” John told Time. “Take Europeans, for example: Can you detect someone who’s French? What is a ‘French person’? So there are all sorts of massive issues there.”

IPVM’s work has been acknowledged in official hearings by the U.S. Congressional Executive Committee on China and the U.S. State Department.

In other news,’97s have been spotted up and down the East Coast.

Mike Messina, Amanda Medford Messina, Danielle Benware Thompson, David Coleman, and Keith Jacobsen made it to Hanover for Homecoming. Danielle even scored a picture with Keggy at the bonfire.

Llezlie Green, Sequoyah Simermeyer, Jess Russo Revand, and Michael New were among more than 250 alumni who attended President Beilock’s inaugural road show in Washington, D.C.

Jeremy Turk, Rich Yeh, Rick Camp, and Steve Sugarman met up in Miami.

Dave Zipkin and Abby Klingbeil cheered on the Big Green against the Crimson at Harvard Stadium in Boston.

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—Jason Casell, 19018 Salado Canyon, San Antonio, TX 78258; jhcasell@gmail.com