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P. Takis Metaxas: "Recognizing Network Manipulation: A short history and current challenges"

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CRCS Lunch Seminar Date: Monday, October 17, 2011 Time: 12:15pm – 1:45pm Place: Maxwell Dworkin 119 Speaker: P. Takis Metaxas, Harvard CRCS and CS, Wellesley Title: Recognizing Network Manipulation: A short history and current challenges Abstract: We live...

An Unfair Affinity Toward Fairness: Characterizing 70 Years of Social Biases in BHollywood

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Bollywood, aka the Mumbai film industry, is one of the biggest movie industries in the world. With a current movie market share of worth 2.1 billion dollars and a target audience base of 1.2 billion people, Bollywood is a formidable entertainment force...

Postdoc Nisarg Shah Awarded 2016 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award

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CRCS Postdoc Nisarg Shah was awarded the 2016 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award for his dissertation entitled " Optimal Social Decision Making." Abstract: How can computers help ordinary people make collective decisions about real...

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

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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...

Sunyoung Kim: "Sensing and Feedback for Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors"

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Speaker: Sunyoung Kim, Harvard CRCS Title: Sensing and Feedback for Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors Abstract: There is often a profound disparity between the perceived and actual quality of our health, everyday life and environment. My...

George Kellaris on the Fraught Line between Usefulness and Privacy

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I meet George Kellaris at Hi-Rise Bakery, where he waves off my attempts to pay for coffee. Kellaris is a second-year postdoc who divides his time between Harvard’s Center for Research on Computation and Society and the Computer Science program at Boston...

CRCS Seminar: Michelle Sohn

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Designing the Experience of the City: Prototyping with People, Places & Things The Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanjcs was formed in 2010 as the Mayor's civic research and design team. MONUM explores and tackles experiments and prototypes that cover a...

Yorick Wilks: "Internet Companions: Technical and Social Issues"

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CRCS Lunch Seminar Date: Monday, November 9, 2009 Time: 11:45am – 1:15pm Place: Maxwell Dworkin 2nd Floor Lounge Area Speaker: Yorick Wilks, Oxford Internet Institute Title: Internet Companions: Technical and Social Issues Abstract: COMPANIONS is a...

Contestability on the Margins: Implications for the Design of Algorithmic Decision-making in Public Services

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More and more, algorithms are being used to decide who gets public benefits. One area receiving increasing attention is housing assistance. For example, public service agencies in the US and the World Bank are developing tools to allocate public housing...

Conrad Tucker (Carnegie Mellon University)

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Talk Title: Using AI to Advance Mobile Digital Health in Resource-Constrained Environments Abstract: The emergence of ubiquitous mobile computing devices and Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms is transforming patient care, hereby making it more...

Who and When to Screen Multi-Round Active Screening for Network Recurrent Infectious Diseases Under Uncertainty

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Controlling recurrent infectious diseases is a vital yet complicated problem in global health. During the long period of time from patients becoming infected to finally seeking treatment, their close contacts are exposed and vulnerable to the disease they...

Mahzarin Banaji: "Social Cognition in VR"

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Speaker: Mahzarin Banaji Title: "Social Cognition in VR" Abstract: Since the 1950’s, social psychologists have been attempting to create a “virtual reality” in the laboratory to understand complex social behavior. For example, Stanley Milgram, interested...

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P. Takis Metaxas: "Recognizing Network Manipulation: A short history and current challenges"

An Unfair Affinity Toward Fairness: Characterizing 70 Years of Social Biases in BHollywood

Postdoc Nisarg Shah Awarded 2016 IFAAMAS Victor Lesser Distinguished Dissertation Award

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

Sunyoung Kim: "Sensing and Feedback for Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Behaviors"

George Kellaris on the Fraught Line between Usefulness and Privacy

CRCS Seminar: Michelle Sohn

Yorick Wilks: "Internet Companions: Technical and Social Issues"

Contestability on the Margins: Implications for the Design of Algorithmic Decision-making in Public Services

Conrad Tucker (Carnegie Mellon University)

Who and When to Screen Multi-Round Active Screening for Network Recurrent Infectious Diseases Under Uncertainty

Mahzarin Banaji: "Social Cognition in VR"