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CRCS closes after 20 years

May 19, 2025

Dear CRCS Community, I am writing today to share the news that the Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) will be closing at the end of this academic year. This difficult decision was made by School leadership after a careful evaluation of...

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AI for more caring institutions: Improving AI-based decision-making tools for public services

May 14, 2024

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...

CRCS held Computing for Population Maternal and Child Health Workshop

April 26, 2024

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...

Easing access to satellite data: SEAS postdoc recognized for software that combines satellite data with machine learning

October 23, 2023

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...

CRCS held AI-Assisted Decision-Making for Conservation Workshop

October 21, 2022

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 Postdoc Manish Raghavan awarded 2021 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

June 02, 2022

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!

Milind Tambe is Pioneering AI for Social Good

March 08, 2022

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.

COMPUTER CONSERVATION: CRCS's Lily Xu uses artificial intelligence to stop poaching around the world

December 09, 2021

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...

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Milind Tambe keynote at INFORMS Annual Meeting

October 25, 2021

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)...

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Accepting applications for CRCS postdoctoral fellowship and Summer 2022 Fellowships

October 05, 2021

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...

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CRCS alumna Fei Fang awarded IJCAI-21 Computers and Thought Award

August 04, 2021

CRCS alumna and current Leonardo Assistant Professor in the Institute for Software Research in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University Fei Fang has been awarded the 2021 IJCAI Computers and Thought Award. Professor Fang was recognized...

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Milind Tambe featured on Harvard Catalyst ThinkResearch Podcast

June 23, 2021

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...

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