The Silicon Flatirons Conference on Regulating Computing and Code is taking place in Boulder. The annual conference addresses a range of issues at the intersection of technology and policy and provides an excellent look ahead to the tech policy issues on the horizon, particularly in telecommunications. I was looking forward to yesterday’s panel on “The […]
Archives for February 2018
Making Sense of Child Protection Predictive Models: Tech-Soc Reading Group Feb 20
February 9, 2018 by
How are predictive models transforming how we think about child protection, and how should we think about the role of such systems in a democracy? If you’re interested to ask these questions, join us at 2-3pm on Tuesday, Feb 20th at Sherrerd Hall room 306 for our opening Technology and Society Reading group meeting. The conversation […]
How Data Science and Open Science are Transforming Research Ethics: Edward Freeland at CITP
February 7, 2018 by
How are data science and open science movement transforming how researchers manage research ethics? And how are these changes influencing public trust in social research? I’m here at the Center for IT Policy to hear a talk by Edward P. Freeland. Edward is the associate director of the Princeton University Survey Research Center and a […]
Why Everyone in Tech Should Visit the American Museum of Tort Law
February 5, 2018 by
This Monday, Nikki Bourassa and I organized a van from Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society to visit the American Museum of Tort Law, which I have decided to call the American Museum of Exploding Cars and Toys that Kill You. While at the museum, I came to see another way that research can […]
