Cynthia Dwork Awarded 2020 Knuth Prize

May 29, 2020

CRCS faculty member Cynthia Dwork is the winner of the 2020 Knuth Prize for her sustained record of contributions to theoretical computer science over the past four decades. https://sigact.org/prizes/knuth/citation2020.pdf. Congratulations, Cynthia! Read more about Cynthia Dwork Awarded 2020 Knuth Prize

CRCS Postdoc Pragya Sur Accepts Position at Harvard University

May 29, 2020

Congratulations to CRCS Postdoc Pragya Sur, who will join the Harvard Statistics Department as an Assistant Professor this summer. Go Pragya!

CRCS Postdoc Maia Jacobs Accepts Position at Northwestern University

May 29, 2020

Congratulations to CRCS Postdoc Maia Jacobs, who will be starting as an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Preventive Medicine at Northwestern University next year. Maia, we are so proud of you!

CRCS Hosts "Rising Stars" Workshop on AI for Social Impact

March 5, 2020

The Harvard CRCS Workshop on AI for Social Impact was a two-day event for junior researchers featuring talks and panel discussions from leaders in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Public Health, and Conservation who are actively engaged in deployed interdisciplinary AI research across the globe. We heard from PhD students and Postdoctoral scholars whose research is related to emerging or deployed applications of AI for Social Impact. Over the course of two days, attendees had the opportunity to hear from our keynote speakers from cross-cutting...

Milind Tambe joins CRCS as Faculty Director

September 1, 2019

Milind Tambe, a leader in applying Artificial Intelligence to address pressing societal challenges, has joined the faculty at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) as the Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS).

Postdoctoral Fellow Berk Ustun has Paper Accepted at International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2018)

April 2, 2018

CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow Berk Ustun has had a paper accepted at the International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2018). This is Ustun's first paper published in conjunction with his collaborators at Harvard. Congratulations, Berk!

On the Direction of Discrimination: An Information-Theoretic Analysis of Disparate Impact in Machine Learning. Hao Wang, Berk Ustun, and Flavio P. Calmon. ISIT 2018. ...

Workshop on Privacy Tools for Data Sharing

December 11, 2017

Please join CRCS on Monday, December 11th, 2017, 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM EST, for a workshop on "Privacy Tools for Data Sharing: Lessons Learned and Directions Forward."

Spring 2018 marks the end of an interdisciplinary, 5-year NSF Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Frontier Project “Privacy Tools for Sharing Research Data” at Harvard University. This one-day workshop will bring past and present project participants together with potential users of privacy tools from academia, government, and industry to examine the goals and accomplishments of the project (including...

Postdoc Melanie F. Pradier wins WHI 2017 best paper award

November 27, 2017

Postdoc Melanie Pradier and team won the Best Paper Award at 2017 ICML Workshop on Human Interpretability in Machine Learning (WHI 2017), for their work on "General Latent Feature Modeling for Data Exploration Tasks." This workshop took place in Sydney, NSW, Australia. Read more about Postdoc Melanie F. Pradier wins WHI 2017 best paper award