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Three New Professors Join CITP Community
Maria Apostolaki, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, and Pramod Viswanath, the Forrest G. Hamrick Professor in Engineering, were both nominated by CITP Interim Director Prateek Mittal to join CITP as associated faculty members.
Meanwhile, CITP Faculty Aleksandra “Sasha” Korolova, an assistant professor of computer science and public affairs and associate director of CITP’s Technology and Society CertiWcate Program, is one of 17 faculty members whose appointments were approved by the Princeton University Board of Trustees last month.
Canadian Lawmakers CITP Research in Facial Recognition Report
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Facial Recognition Technology and the Growing Power of ArtiWcial Intelligence, a new report from Canada’s House of Commons, cites the research of CITP graduate student Angelina Wang, Emerging Scholar Christelle Tessono, and former CITP Postdoctoral Research Associate Elizabeth Anne Watkins.
Wang and Watkins testiWed on April 4 before the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics, and cautioned Canadian lawmakers about the risks and consequences of relying on AI systems, including the perpetuation of racial and gender stereotypes — like misidentifying a person of color as a criminal. Canadian o^cials sought guidance from CITP after participating in a case study on facial recognition technology designed by Tessono, whose research brief is included in the report.
The Committee issued 19 recommendations designed to improve the legislative framework around AI, including imposing a federal ban on the use of facial recognition technology by law enforcement, except in consent with the nation's privacy commissioner or with judicial authorization.
JOB ALERT
CITP is accepting applications for a new assistant, associate, or full professor. We are looking for someone with a solid research background and strong collaborative skills to join us in our mission of understanding and improving digital technology for the good of society. CITP is also open to candidates from a wide range of disciplines. Find details and the application via Princeton’s hiring portal. The deadline to apply is December 1.
RESEARCH NEWS
CITP Visiting Scholar Jakob Mökander co-authored The US Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022 vs. The EU ArtiWcial Intelligence Act, an August 18 commentary on how the U. S. can beneWt from the European ArtiWcial Intelligence Act.
The October 6 kickoff for Princeton's new Center for the Decentralization of Power Through Blockchain Technology featured three CITP associated faculty members.
Forrest G. Hamrick Professor in Engineering Pramod Viswanath, Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Maria Apostolaki, and Assistant Professor of Computer Science Andrés Monroy-Hernández discussed the technology and applications aspirations around blockchains and their implications for society.
TECH TALKS
CITP Professor Arvind Narayanan gave a virtual keynote address, Beyond Ad Filtering: Ideas for User Empowerment Through the Browser, at the October 6 AdFiltering Dev Summit 2022 in Amsterdam. His talk pulled from his research on dark patterns, algorithmic recommendations, and deceptive political emails. CITP Graduate Student Sayash Kapoor discussed his paper, Leakage and the Reproducibility Crisis in ML-based Science, at the October 5 Data Science Institute seminar series in Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. CITP founder Ed Felten appeared on the September 28 Nasdaq Trade Talks program where he discussed Web3 and how the idea for Arbitrum dates back to his time at Princeton. Felten, co-founder of Offchain Labs, was a featured speaker at SmartCon 2022 in September.
MEDIA MENTIONS
Sociology Professor Matthew Salganik, a member of the CITP faculty, was quoted in the July 19 article, How to Promote Your Music Online From TikTok to Patreon, here's how musicians can use the internet to cut through the noise, in Wired Magazine. The article cites Salganik’s 2008 research paper, Leading the Herd Astray: An Experimental Study of Self-fulWlling Prophecies in an ArtiWcial Cultural Market The Los Angeles Times interviewed CITP Graduate Student Sayash Kapoor for the October 7 business column, The artiWcial intelligence Weld is infected with hype. Here's how not to get duped CITP Professor Arvind Narayanan was featured in See Through AI Hype with Arvind Narayanan, an October 5 episode of the podcast, "Reimagining the Internet," hosted by Ethan Zuckerman at the University of Massachusetts—Amherst. Narayanan discussed AI Snake Oil, the book he is writing with CITP Graduate Student Sayash Kapoor that calls out false claims at the core of AI hype.
CALENDAR ITEMS
TODAY: Professor Arvind Narayanan, a member CITP’s faculty and executive committee, will give a talk on The Limits Of The Quantitative Approach To Discrimination, October 11, 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., as part of the African American Studies Department’s James Baldwin Lecture Series at Princeton. In person seating is at capacity, but you may still register to watch the lecture online.
CITP hosts weekly seminars with guest speakers from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. at 306 Sherrerd Hall. These talks on tech and society-related topics are open to Princeton University students, faculty and staff. For more information, visit the CITP Events page or email Jean Butcher. Upcoming talks and speakers are as follows:
October 11: Participatory User Data Collection and Potential Futures for Platform Accountability: The Case of Mozilla Rally with CITP Visiting Research Scholar Rebecca Weiss.
October 13, Kobbi Nissim, the McDevitt Chair in Computer Science at Georgetown University and an a^liate professor at Georgetown Law, will give a talk, Can We Reconcile the Computer Science and Legal Views of Privacy?
October 25: The Black Box of Information Access: Measuring People’s Algorithm Skills with CITP Visiting Research Scholar Eszter Hargittai
November 8: Author Kathy Kleiman, a former visiting research scholar at CITP, will discuss her book, Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer. CITP Associated Faculty, Ruha Benjamin, a professor of African American Studies, will give a keynote address, Race to the Future? Reimagining the Default Settings of Technology and Society, at the October 24 American Society for Radiation Oncology annual meeting on ArtiWcial Intelligence and Emotional Intelligence: Caring for the Patient in a Wireless World.
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September 21: Special Event CITP Special Event: Privacy and Autonomy in the Metaverse
September 27, CITP Seminar: Witness Chain: Proofs of Bandwidth for Trust-Free Wireless Networking
Seminar: An Equitable Technological Future for Cities
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