Conference

Overview Directions/Logistics Hashtag: #princetonbtc Underlying the commercial possibilities of Bitcoin are both a fascinating, innovative and complex technical architecture and an intricate balance of market forces, social norms, and group consensus. Bitcoin has grown considerably from its original specification and it's often unclear the extent to which Bitcoin's rules are technical vs social in nature. […]

Overview Directions/Logistics This conference will be videotaped and livestreamed. Hashtag: #WebTAP Everything we do on the web is tracked and profiled. What types of data are companies collecting? Who are they trading it with? And how is this data used for personalizing our online experience and treating different users differently? What are the algorithms used […]

This conference will be videotaped and livestreamed. Hashtag: #safersoftware Please go to the event website for more detailed information and to RSVP. Video Recordings: Panel 1: Software Safety: Setting the Legal Context Panel 2: Software Safety: Asking the Right Questions Panel 3: Software Safety and Social Harms Panel 4: Software Safety and Patient Harms Panel […]

The event brings together experts in computer science, journalism and law from government, the private sector and the academy to provide a comprehensive view of the current state of affairs and to offer a diverse set of perspectives on where we should go from here. The day’s events will explore how to ensure simultaneous protection of national security and other important values, including personal privacy, the right of citizens to know what their government is doing and security of the internet itself. By cutting across disciplines and incorporating a wide range of viewpoints, we hope to generate policy proposals to address the issues raised by both Snowden's actions and the information he revealed.

What is the current state of internet accessibility, and what technologies and policies can help protect international security and human rights in this area? This conference will explore research by both computer scientists and political scientists into internet censorship, interference, and control. We will consider interdisciplinary perspectives on relevant contemporary questions: What is the state of the art in network measurement, and how can information about social and political conditions better inform future measurements? How should computer scientists measure and study offensive technologies, such as China’s denial of service attacks on Github, and what role should policy play in responding to these security threats? How extensive are national firewalls, internet surveillance, and filter bubbles, and how should citizens and governments respond?