Concerned by media reports that political candidates use psychological tricks in their emails to get supporters to donate, CITP researchers spent the last year collecting 250,000 emails from 3,000 senders from the 2020 U.S. Election cycle. Check out what they found...
The School of Engineering and Applied Science's (SEAS) new podcast series "Cookies: Tech Security & Privacy" features several CITP affiliates: Episodes one and two features Arvind Narayanan, CITP executive committee member and an associate professor of computer...
Ruha Benjamin, CITP associated faculty member and associate professor of African American Studies, was recently named among the first cohort of Freedom Scholars, an initiative supporting progressive academics who are at the forefront of movements for economic and...
Support from the Siegel Family Endowment will provide funds for the Center for Information Technology Policy’s Fellows Program. The Fellows Program broadens and amplifies the research and policy work at CITP by supporting postdoctoral scholars and visiting...
Olga Russakovsky, an assistant professor of computer science and CITP affiliated faculty member, "has been recognized with two early-career awards honoring her contributions in research, education and outreach. Russakovsky was selected by the nonprofit organization...
CITP Director Matthew Salganik was interviewed recently about the Fragile Families Challenge. As Salganik states in this interview: "The Fragile Families Challenge is a scientific mass collaboration designed to answer one question: how predictable are life...
CITP Fellow Annette Zimmermann, a political philosopher, was interviewed for a recent episode of Princeton University's Policy Punchline podcast. The podcast addresses the following questions: What is algorithmic bias? Is all bias bad? Where do we see algorithms...
CITP's DataX Scientist Pranay Anchuri was recently featured by Princeton's Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) where he discussed his research using big data to tackle social science and technology. Anchuri was hired as one of six data scientists, all of...
We are deeply saddened to share the news of the passing of Joel Reidenberg on April 21, 2020. Joel was the inaugural Microsoft Visiting Professor of Information Technology Policy at CITP in 2013-2014, and then stayed on to be an active part of the CITP community as a...
The machine learning techniques scientists use to predict outcomes from large datasets may fall short when it comes to projecting the outcomes of people’s lives, according to a mass collaborative study led by researchers at Princeton. CITP Interim Director Matthew...
To protect the health and safety of the University community from the progression of COVID-19 (coronavirus), Princeton University has implemented new policies and practices. These policies are based on "the concept of social distancing, and the goal is to decrease the...
CITP is happy to announce that current Interim Director and Professor of Sociology Matthew Salganik has been re-appointed as director of CITP for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2020. "CITP is a wonderful community, and I’m excited to continue to help CITP grow and...