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In April 2024, the Center for Research on Computation and Society held a workshop titled “Computing for Population Maternal and Child Health”. Organized by Niclas Boehmer (Postdoctoral Fellow in Computer Science) and Puneet Sharma (Clinical Fellow in...

By Leah Burrows | Press contact May 14, 2024 More and more public services — such as affordable housing, public school matching and child welfare — are relying on algorithms to make decisions and allocate resources. So far, much of the work that has gone...

By Matt Goisman | Press contact October 23, 2023 Satellite imagery and data can help track population density, deforestation, housing availability, methane emissions, light pollution and more. But with over 6,000 currently active public satellites, the...

In Oct, 2022, the AI-Assisted Decision-Making for Conservation workshop convened to explore the opportunities to expand the breadth of AI methods — particularly for optimization, planning, and evaluation — that are being developed for and applied to...

CRCS Postdoctoral Fellow Manish Raghavan has been recognized with the 2021 Association for Computing Machinery Doctoral Dissertation Award for his dissertation titled, " The Societal Impacts of Algorithmic Decision-Making." Congratulations, Manish!

The Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University featured Milind Tambe and described the evolution of his work in a recent article.

By Matt Goisman | Press contact Lily Xu knew from a young age how much the environment and conservation mattered to her. By 9 years old, she’d already decided to eat vegetarian because, as she put it, “I didn’t want to hurt animals.” Xu grew up believing...

CRCS Director Milind Tambe gave the keynote on Monday, October 25, 2021. Professor Tambe's talk, titled, "“Multiagent Reasoning for Social Impact: Results from Deployments for Public Health and Conservation," discussed using artificial intelligence (AI)...

The Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) is currently accepting applications for postdoctoral fellows and summer fellows for 2022. Applications are due December 15th, 2021 though the postdoc position will accept applications until...

CRCS Director Milind Tambe was featured on an episode of the Harvard Catalyst podcast, ThinkResearch. In this episode, Homeless Youth Social Networks and HIV Prevention Education, Professor Tambe describes his work using Artificial Intelligence for social...