And the 2022 AAPOR Book Award Goes To ... CITP Director Matthew J. Salganik
The American Association for Public Opinion Research book award recognizes Salganik for his 2018 book, Bit by Bit: Social Research for the Digital Age. The AAPOR selection committee said it "offers a forward-looking roadmap for social scientists looking to harness new data sources."
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Password Managers Are a Defense Against Cybercriminals CITP Researcher Kevin Lee Tells NBC News
Lee, a computer-science graduate student, told NBC that many people put their accounts at risk for compromise by using common passwords, like 123456, or by reusing the same password. He said password managers offer security by generating and saving strong, unique passwords.
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CITP Emerging Scholar Christelle Tessono Details Case Study Work with Members of Canadian Parliament
In a Freedom To Tinker blog post, Tessono describes how lawmakers in Canada are grappling with how to regulate facial recognition technologies in the absence of accountability systems to address when such technologies fail.
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Wang, a computer science graduate researcher, and Watkins, a postdoctoral research associate, served as expert witnesses on facial recognition technology before an April 4 Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. Their testimony developed out of a CITP case study.
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UK-based Competition & Markets Authority Cites CITP's Dark Patterns Research in New Reports
In two new reports about online consumer choice, the London-based CMA cited several CITP papers, including work CITP researchers did on privacy, and the design and harms of dark patterns. CITP Faculty Jonathan Mayer gave feedback on the reports and will speak at CMA’s conference in June.
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CITP Fellow Orestis Papakyriakopoulos Talks to Slate About Elon Musk's Twitter
Papakyriakopoulos said Musk's advocacy of free speech on the social platform should not mean that misinformation or harmful content is not labeled. "Freedom of speech does not mean saying something and not being accountable for it," he said.
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IPWatchdog Highlights AI Panel With CITP Researcher Elizabeth Anne Watkins
The intellectual properties site this week highlighted a Brookings Institution panel on Operationalizing AI that featured Watkins, a CITP postdoctoral research associate. The panel discussed the challenges for the federal government in creating AI systems that are transparent, fair, safe and accessible to users.
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CITP Special Event
Tech In Conversation: Imagining Radical Tech Futures – Moderated by CITP Emerging Scholar Kenia Hale
While scholars often examine the ways in which technologies fail and marginalize communities, this event focuses on an equally critical goal of adopting an abolitionist mindset ...
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CITP Seminar
Denae Ford Robinson – The Next Generation of Software Developers
Microsoft is home to the world’s largest developer communities and ecosystems with Azure, GitHub, and Visual Studio. Thus, having sustainable and inclusive communities is ...
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CITP Seminar
Amy Winecoff – Today’s Machine Learning Needs Yesterday’s Social Science
Research on machine learning (ML) algorithms, as well as on their ethical impacts, has focused largely on mathematical or computational questions. However, for algorithmic ...
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