Congratulations to Eli Lucherini who was recently awarded the the Hamid Biglari *87 Behavioral Science Fellowship for 2021-22 by the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science & Public Policy and Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs. Eli...
Ed Felten, the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and the founding director of CITP, has officially retired from Princeton University. Ed transferred to emeritus status on July 1, 2021 after 28 years on the Princeton University faculty of...
Recently published on Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox web browser, "Take control over your data with Rally, a novel privacy-first data sharing platform" explains how Mozilla worked with research groups at Princeton and Stanford "to enable crowdsourced science for...
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...