Congratulations to two of CITP associated faculty members for winning SEAS 2021 Junior Faculty Awards! Jonathan Mayer, an assistant professor of computer science and public policy won the Alfred Rheinstein Junior Faculty Award. Olga Russakovsky, an assistant professor...
Computer Science Associate Professor Arvind Narayanan and Computer Science Graduate Student Kevin Lee's research on the risk of recycling old phone number is discussed in several recent tech site articles. Narayanan and Lee have shown that companies who reuse old...
Joint work from CITP researchers Shaanan Cohney, Ross Teixeira, Anne Kohlbrenner, Mihir Kshirsagar, Arvind Narayanan, Yan Shvartzshnaider and Madelyn Sanfilippo is featured in a story on the front page of a recent New York Times with a direct link to the paper....
"A.I. Nation” is a new podcast by CITP and WHYY exploring artificial intelligence (A.I.) and its implications for our everyday lives. The podcast features Ed Felten, professor of computer science and founding director of Princeton’s Center for Information Technology...
Identifying Harmful Media in End-to-End Encrypted Communication: Efficient Private Membership Computation Authors: Anunay Kulshrestha and Jonathan Mayer, Princeton University Click here for YouTube video End-to-end encryption (E2EE) poses a challenge for automated...
CITP Fellow Elizabeth Anne Watkins was awarded best paper at the workshop on Transparency and Explanations in Smart Systems (TExSS). Her paper is entitled: "The Tension Between Information Justice and Security: Perceptions of Facial Recognition Targeting."
CITP Data Scientist Amy Winecoff is featured this week by the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML). Amy was hired last October as one of several data scientists through Princeton University's Schmidt DataX program. Amy works at the intersection of data,...
The Communications Manager at CITP will serve as the lead for all external and internal communications efforts of the center. This will include developing CITP’s content strategy and managing the center’s website, Freedom to Tinker blog, and social media presence. The...
Freedom to Tinker has been listed as one of the "Best Computer Science Blogs" by Draft.Dev Blog. Freedom to Tinker is hosted by Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy, a research center that studies digital technologies in public life. Here you'll find...
CITP's Tech Policy Clinic is featured on the SEAS homepage in an article entitled "Tech policy clinic builds ‘virtuous loop’ of real-world research and learning." The article discusses many of the activities the clinic engages in, including "creative uses of...
Congratulations to CITP Postdoctoral Research Fellow Arunesh Mathur, who received a 2021 ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) award for Outstanding Dissertation. Arunesh’s dissertation is entitled "Identifying and Measuring Manipulative...
CITP Director and Professor of Sociology Matthew Salganik is happy to announce the launch of the 2021 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science (SICSS). The purpose of SICSS is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and beginning...