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| Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society | |
|---|---|
| Name | Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society |
| Founded | 2005 |
| Type | Research center |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Parent organization | Harvard University |
Harvard Center for Research on Computation and Society is an interdisciplinary research center at Harvard University that connects researchers across Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, and Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The center supports work at the intersection of computer science and societal issues such as privacy law, public policy, digital infrastructure, and equity. It fosters collaborations involving scholars from institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, and Princeton University.
Founded in 2005 during a period of rapid growth in computational research, the center emerged amid initiatives led by faculty affiliated with Harvard College, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Early influences included work by researchers connected to Project on Information Technology and Political Institutions, Center for International Development, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, and programs at MIT Media Lab. The center developed alongside national priorities represented by agencies such as the National Science Foundation, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, National Institutes of Health, and foundations including the MacArthur Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
The center's mission centers on rigorous analysis of computation applied to societal challenges, engaging with topics prominent in communities at Harvard Business School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, and Harvard Graduate School of Design. Research areas intersect with scholarly debates linked to names and institutions like Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, John von Neumann, Claude Shannon, and projects associated with DARPA Grand Challenge, Human Genome Project, and OpenAI. Ongoing emphases include algorithmic fairness studied alongside work from Microsoft Research, Google Research, IBM Research, OpenAI, and DeepMind; privacy research influenced by frameworks from European Union directives and United States Supreme Court jurisprudence; and security topics connected to National Security Agency, CERT Coordination Center, and Internet Engineering Task Force standards.
Programs span multidisciplinary seminars, fellowships, and applied projects in partnership with units such as Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, Harvard Data Science Initiative, Harvard Innovation Labs, and the Harvard Institute for Quantitative Social Science. Initiatives include workshops drawing collaborators from Stanford Cyber Policy Center, Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy, Yale Information Society Project, Columbia University, and New York University. Fellowship programs echo models used by Fulbright Program, Rhodes Scholarship, Guggenheim Fellowship, and institutional centers like the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Faculty and affiliates include scholars from departments and centers connected to Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard Law School, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Affiliates often collaborate with researchers from MIT, Stanford University, Princeton University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, ETH Zurich, INRIA, and Max Planck Society. Notable faculty networks reflect connections to awardees of honors such as the Turing Award, MacArthur Fellows Program, National Medal of Science, and Pulitzer Prize winners in science journalism.
The center supports graduate and undergraduate education in collaboration with academic programs including Harvard College, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and professional schools like Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School. Students engage in practicum projects modeled after collaborations with Electronic Frontier Foundation, ACLU, Center for Democracy & Technology, Open Technology Institute, and industry partners such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, IBM, Apple, and Cisco Systems. Internship pipelines echo connections found in networks like LinkedIn, GitHub, IEEE, and ACM.
The center partners with a broad ecosystem including academic institutions such as MIT, Stanford University, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Carnegie Mellon University, and international partners like University of Oxford and University of Cambridge. Policy and civil society collaborations include World Bank, United Nations, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OpenAI, Google.org, Microsoft Philanthropies, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Technical standards and deployment partners include IETF, W3C, Internet Society, ICANN, NIST, and IEEE Standards Association.
Projects span algorithmic auditing, privacy-preserving data analysis, and civic technology, producing outputs cited alongside work from Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Communications of the ACM, and IEEE Transactions. Publications and reports have been cited in policy forums convened by United States Congress, European Commission, Council of Europe, U.S. Department of Justice, and advisory bodies like National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Collaborative projects have interfaced with technology efforts from OpenAI, DeepMind, Google DeepMind, Microsoft Research, Amazon Web Services, and public platforms such as GitHub and Stack Overflow. The center's outputs inform regulatory debates linked to landmark matters involving the European Union General Data Protection Regulation, U.S. Supreme Court, and multilateral initiatives such as G7 and G20 dialogues.
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