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...
Many systems have been proposed for using technology to help individuals and public health officials better respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. This talk will analyze the major proposed uses of information technology in the public health response to COVID-19, including...
CITP presented a panel on elections and the role of technology during a pandemic on April 2, 2020. Professor Ed Felten spoke to experts about the challenges and risks facing the 2020 elections, and how we can design solutions and protective measures to secure our...
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...
Princeton University is actively monitoring the situation around coronavirus (Covid-19) and the evolving guidance from government and health authorities, in keeping with our commitment to ensure the health and safety of all members of the University community. The...
Can algorithms help judges make fair decisions? After all, human judges can often be biased—so should we try to use ostensibly neutral technology instead? In a recent interview with WHYY, Philadelphia's public radio station (a member of NPR), CITP fellow Annette...
CITP’s Microsoft Visiting Professor and data privacy expert, Ari Ezra Waldman, recently worked with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and other data privacy experts and advocates to put forth landmark legislation to create a Data Protection Agency. (See official press...