The Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) brings computer scientists together with a broad range of researchers, including economists, psychologists, legal scholars, ethicists, neuroscientists, and other academic colleagues.  The Center provides a dedicated and supportive environment for scholars to tackle fundamental computational problems arising from societal issues, such as privacy and security, digital copyrights, and file sharing.  The ultimate goal is to create new technologies that incorporate tech, as well as social, savvy.

News:

• CRCS Fellow Tyler Moore awarded Gordon Prize in Managing Cybersecurity Resources for the essay “The Iterated Weakest Link”, which is based on his WEIS 2009 paper. 
• Articles in the Harvard Magazine featuring CRCS people: “Exposed: the erosion of privacy in the Internet Era” and “Phishing for Trust Online”.
• We have joined forces with the Berkman Center for the 2009-2010 academic year.  In particular, our weekly Wednesday lunches have been replaced by a combination of CRCS participation in the Tuesday Berkman lunches and a CS-research-focused series held at Maxwell-Dworkin roughly every three weeks on Mondays 11:45-1:15.  See press release.
• We have started activities in a second focus area of ”Economics & Computer Science,”  while continuing efforts in our current focus of “Privacy & Security”.
• New fellows: Ian Kash, Ariel Procaccia, Jeffrey Vaughan
• New affiliates: Felix Fischer, Jenn Wortman Vaughan
• New faculty affiliates: Yiling Chen, Stephen Chong, David Parkes, Jim Waldo

See our list of talks (with videos).