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Six Reasons Fake News is the End of the World as we Know It

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Six reasons Fake News is the end of the world as we know it Date: May 2, 2017 Time: 9:00AM - 5:00PM Location: The Thompson Room, Barker Center, 12 Quincy St, Cambridge, MA 02138 During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, fake news became a global issue...

Greg Morrisett named Harvard College Professor

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Greg Morrisett named Harvard College Professor Annual honors recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching by five outstanding Harvard faculty By Peter Reuell, Harvard Gazette (June 23, 2014) Greg Morrisett, Allen B. Cutting Professor of Computer Science...

Milind Tambe joins CRCS as Faculty Director

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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...

Celebration of Computer Science at Harvard in Honor of Harry Lewis

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On Wednesday, April 19th, CRCS hosted a celebration of computer science at Harvard in honor of Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay professor of computer science and former dean of the College. Friends, family, students, and colleagues gathered to celebrate...

Francesca Dominici (Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health)

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Title: How much evidence do you need? Data Science to Inform Environmental Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic Abstract: In this talk, I will provide an overview of data science methods, including methods for causal inference and machine learning, to...

Crowdsourcing science at CRCS: Harvard researchers envision a "World Wide Lab" for citizen science

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During a special CRCS panel discussion on " Taking Research Out Into The Wild", CRCS faculty member Krzysztof Gajos and CRCS fellow Edith Law, along with Laura Germine and Katharina Reinecke, spoke about their successful efforts in crowdsourcing science...

CRCS Postdoc Pragya Sur Accepts Position at Harvard University

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

Director's Letter and CRCS Annual Report

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Greetings CRCS fans! I am delighted to present you with our first ever annual report. When I became director of CRCS in 2015, I looked forward to connecting CRCS to the greater Harvard community. I’m happy to report that we’ve made great strides in that...

Milind Tambe featured on Harvard Catalyst ThinkResearch Podcast

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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...

Maimuna Majumder: Real-time pandemic planning and response: experiences from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

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Title: Real-time pandemic planning and response: experiences from the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic Abstract: Dr. Majumder will discuss three of her research group’s recent publications at the intersection of machine learning and epidemiology to answer a wide...

CRCS closes after 20 years

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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...

Toby Walsh: "Electing the Doge"

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Joint CRCS/EconCS Special Seminar Date: THURSDAY, November 3, 2011 Time: 2:30pm – 4:00pm Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119 Speaker: Toby Walsh, NICTA and UNSW Title: Electing the Doge Abstract: Between 1268 and 1797, the Venetian Republic used a complicated...