#  Symposium: Societal Impact through Computing Research 

 



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 **September 25, 2015** 

 09:00AM - 05:00PM EDT 

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 **Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge**  



 

 



 

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 **Societal Impact through Computing Research** 

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 [**The Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS)** ](http://harvard.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a6c20fd6b0d47eb14efc6ed00&id=b8fab08c45&e=e52e5a4453)presented [**"Societal Impact through Computing Research”**](http://harvard.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a6c20fd6b0d47eb14efc6ed00&id=f3ce654f73&e=e52e5a4453) on **Friday, September 25, 2015** at Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Science, in **Maxwell Dworkin** at **33 Oxford Street, Cambridge.** Speakers addressed topics at the intersection of computer science and areas of intense societal importance, such as healthcare, privacy, security, economic fair division, and government.

#### **Symposium Schedule**  
 9:00 – 10:15 Opening Technical Session

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 10:15 – 10:30 Coffee & Tea break  
 10:30 – 12:30 Second Technical Session

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 12:30 – 1:30 Lunch  
 1:30 – 3:00 Breakout Sessions

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 3:00 – 3:15 Coffee & Tea Break  
 3:15 – 5:00 Final Technical Session & Concluding remarks



 

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 5:00 – 6:00 Reception  
   
 The program will include talks by the following intellectual leaders:

- #### Ben Adida, lead Engineering at Clever, former CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow
- #### Yochai Benkler, Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
- #### Edward W. Felten, Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy, Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University
- #### Krzysztof Gajos, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University
- #### Isaac Kohane, Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics, Director of Countway Library of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
- **Shawn Murphy, Corporate Director, Research IS and Computing, Partners Healthcare, Assoc. Director, Laboratory of Computer Science, Massachusetts General Hospital, Assoc. Professor of Neurology, HMS**
- #### Ariel Procaccia, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, former CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow
- #### Jessie Tenenbaum, Associate Director of Bioinformatics at Duke Translational Medicine Institute
- #### Jim Waldo, Harvard Chief Technology Officer, Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Computer Science at Harvard University
- #### Christopher S. Yoo, Director, Center for Technology, Innovation & Competition, John H. Chestnut Professor of Law, Communication, and Computer & Information Science at University of Pennsylvania Law School

  
 Please contact CRCS's project coordinator at [Kmavon@seas.harvard.edu](mailto:///Kmavon@seas.harvard.edu) with questions regarding the symposium.



 

 



 

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