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Mongabay published feature on PAWS AI research for Wildlife Conservation

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Mongabay featured CRCS' PAWS project in an article titled, " Where to patrol next: 'Neflix' of ranger AI serves up poaching predictions." Author Claudia Gelb describes the Protection Assistant for Wildlife Security (PAWS), how it came to be, and next...

AAMAS 2020 Blue Sky Panel remarks by Milind Tambe: Future of Agents & Multiagent Systems Conference

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What should be the future of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). What should be our goals for AAMAS 2021? AAMAS 2030? Agent-based modeling and simulation may provide one exciting avenue for continued...

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

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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...

Desmond Patton and Kathleen McKeown: Violence on the Digital Street: Intervening in Aggression and Loss Using Qualitative Analysis and Machine Learning

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Firearm violence remains a serious public health problem in the United States, where the overall firearm death rate is 10 times higher than other high-income countries. Cities like Chicago have seen a 53.1% increase in homicides in 2016 and 2017 due to...

Accepting applications for CRCS postdoctoral fellowship and Summer 2022 Fellowships

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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 held AI-Assisted Decision-Making for Conservation Workshop

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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 Alumna Fei Fang to present at AI for Economics Seminar on February 2

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Fei Fang Fei Fang, previous postdoctoral fellow at CRCS and current Assistant Professor at the Institute for Software Research in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, will present at the AI for Economics seminar on February 2...

AI for Social Impact Seminar Series 2020

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Artificial intelligence is poised to play an increasingly large role in societies across the world. Accordingly, there is a growing interest in ensuring that AI is used in a responsible and beneficial manner. A range of perspectives and contributions are...

Library of Congress to Award Kluge Prize for Achievement in the Study of Humanity to Danielle Allen

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by Press Contact: Brett Zongker, bzongker@loc.gov Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced today that Danielle Allen, director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics and the James Bryant Conant University Professor at Harvard University, will...

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

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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...