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The Princeton CITP Newsletter
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Greetings CITP Community!
As you enjoy these final weeks of August, we invite you to catch up on our research and policy news from the summer — and connect with us on LinkedIn! ⛱️
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CITP Emerging Scholar Nia Brazzell (at center in patterned dress) is surrounded by students in the Siegel Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship 2023 cohort. The students met at Princeton in mid-August for workshops and other activities. Brazzell coordinated the program this year.
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Students Find Value in CITP's Summer Internship Program
At the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Advertising Practices, Princeton student Katherine Wang helped regulators research deceptive advertising practices. Wang, a rising sophomore, was one of 13 interns who were able to get real-life training at government agencies through the Siegel Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship. Read more in Siegel Public Interest Technology Summer Fellowship Yields Rich Lessons.
Computer Science Professor Arvind Narayanan is CITP’s New Director
As a fellow at Stanford University, Professor Arvind Narayanan co-founded a startup, hoping to “save the world with tech.” But after witnessing a Silicon Valley culture that lacked ethics, Narayanan decided to pursue research to make society better. Read more in Tech Expert Arvind Narayanan Takes the Helm at Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy
CITP Course Prepares Policy Students to Explore the Digital Divide
The pandemic exposed the chasm between people with access to broadband and those without. The legal, technical and economic implications of that divide are explored in the Bridging the Digital Divide: Technology and Policy course designed by CITP Executive Director Tithi Chattopadhyay and Mihir Kshirsagar, CITP's Tech Policy Clinic lead. Read more in CITP’s “Digital Divide” Course Brings Attention to Broadband Inequities.
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- Leakage and the reproducibility crisis in machine-learning-based science, a peer-reviewed paper coauthored by CITP graduate student Sayash Kapoor and CITP Director Arvind Narayanan has been published in the research journal Patterns.
- Account Verification on Social Media: User Perceptions and Paid Enrollment, a paper coauthored by CITP researchers Madelyne Xiao, Mona Wang, Anunay Kulshrestha and Jonathan Mayer was presented at the 32nd USENIX Security Symposium.
- CITP graduate student Mona Wang coauthored the following two reports on privacy and security as part of her work with The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto: Should We Chat? Privacy in the WeChat Ecosystem, and “Please do not make it public” Vulnerabilities in Sogou Keyboard encryption expose keypresses to network eavesdropping.
- The limitations of machine learning models for predicting scientific replicability, a letter coauthored by Molly Crockett, associate professor of psychology and a CITP associated faculty member, was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) journal. It was coauthored by Princeton researcher Xuechunzi Bai, CITP graduate student Sayash Kapoor, Yale researcher Lisa Messeri and Arvind Narayanan, CITP director and professor of computer science.
- Sociology professor Matthew Salganik, a CITP associated faculty member, gave a flash talk at the Princeton Catalysis Initiative symposium on ChatGPT that was featured in Princeton’s 5th PCI Symposium packs the house for a new round of blue-sky thinking and collaboration.
From CITP’s Freedom To Tinker blog:
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- CITP associated faculty member Olga Russakovsky and AI4All, a summer program she co-directs, was featured on NBC's Today show.
- CITP Director Arvind Narayanan was quoted and/or cited in the following media:
- Professor Narayanan also explained decentralized networks on the July 28 "Marketplace” segment The advantages —and drawbacks — of decentralized social networks.
- CITP associated faculty member Jonathan Mayer, assistant professor of computer science and public affairs, was quoted in Elon Musk’s Twitter vs. Bad Bots: The Battle Goes On, The Wall Street Journal.
- CITP graduate student Sayash Kapoor was quoted or cited in the following:
- CITP associated faculty member Ruha Benjamin, a professor of African American Studies, was interviewed for, cited in, or featured in the following:
- The research of CITP associated faculty member Rory Truex, assistant professor of politics and international affairs in the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, was cited in For Some Key Voters, Trump Has Become Toxic, The New York Times Opinion.
- CITP fellow Shazeda Ahmed was quoted in How elite schools like Stanford became fixated on the AI apocalypse, The Washington Post.
- CITP associated faculty Melissa Lane, Class of 1943 Professor of Politics and director of the University Center for Human Values, was featured in the Princeton University article Melissa Lane to give a distinguished lecture series at London’s Gresham College.
- CITP associated faculty member Sam S.-H Wang was quoted in Pop star Sia says she's on the spectrum. Do you think you're autistic? Here are some signs, Salon.
- CITP associated faculty member Margaret Martonosi, the Hugh Trumbull Adams ’35 Professor of Computer Science, was referenced in Democratizing quantum information science in Science X.
- CITP associated faculty member Andrew Appel, a professor of computer science, appeared on the YouTube show Colonel of Truth about the use of paper ballots.
- Former CITP fellow Eszter Hargittai’s book, Connected in Isolation: Digital Privilege in Unsettled Times, was cited in Rethinking the impact of the lockdowns, Washington Examiner.
- Former CITP fellow Elizabeth Anne Watkins, now a research scientist at AI Labs, was featured in The Social Science of AI: Intel’s Elizabeth Anne Watkins, the June 20, 2023 episode of Me, Myself and AI podcast produced by MIT Sloan.
- Former CITP Emerging Scholar Christelle Tessono was quoted in Canada sits on the fence about regulating AI Concerns an AI commissioner won’t be independent enough from industry and government in National, a Canadian Bar Association site.
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Tech Privacy Expert Jonathan Mayer Lands NSF CAREER Award
The National Science Foundation award provides $600,000 in funding over five years and will support CITP associated faculty member Jonathan Mayer’s research related to the intersection of human-computer interaction and antitrust law. Read the full story.
Investigative Story That Relied on CITP Tools Wins Award
The Pixel Hunt series produced by the investigative journalism site The Markup won the 2023 National Press Club Consumer Journalism award in the periodical and online publications category. Facebook Is Receiving Sensitive Medical Information from Hospital Websites — one story in the series — revealed that 33 top hospitals in the country shared patient data with Meta (formerly the Facebook company) via trackers embedded on their websites. Surya Mattu, CITP Digital Witness Lab lead, designed the study to investigate how websites leak data to Facebook, using the Mozilla Rally platform, which was designed by a team led by CITP associated faculty member Jonathan Mayer.
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The Center for Information Technology Policy is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, interdisciplinary hub where researchers study digital technologies for the good of society. CITP is an initiative of Princeton University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) and the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA).
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This newsletter is written and designed by CITP Communications Manager Karen Rouse. Send questions, comments or suggestions to CITPComms@princeton.edu.
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