I School Lectures

The EU’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes big responsibilities for organizations.

Sendhil Mullainathan discusses how machine learning can improve our understanding of the health system itself.

Making it easy for individuals and teams to manage, analyze, and draw insights from large datasets.

Niloufar Salehi introduces social computing systems to support collective action.

We imagine a future in which computers understand a broad range of human behaviors, but today’s systems fall short of these visions.

How can social media platforms better foster well-being when people experience distress and stigma?

How technology design can help us understand different social phenomena.

A linguistic analysis of policy body-camera data from traffic stops reveals race-based differences. How can the findings improve police-community relations?

Dan Gillick proposes a new kind of internet search engine based on neural networks.

An audit study of the 2016 election confirms ethnic bias by local election officials.

With facts and truth increasingly under assault, sifting through the visual information and misinformation is more critical than ever.

The untold history of our modern credit scoring system and how it emerged from a 19th-century surveillance infrastructure with huge archives of personal information.

Online platforms today are being used in deplorably diverse ways. How can technology companies allow the free flow of ideas while reining in abuses?

How should social media police inappropriate speech and anti-social behavior?

Insight from data science director Danny Ferrante and user research manager Umer Farooq.

As technology finds new users in developing countries, alternative interactions emerge that challenge our design assumptions. Nithya Sambasivan presents her research on designing for human collectives in developing countries, with examples from her prior work in India.

In the era of pervasive, connected smart things, cybersecurity depends on the complex social consequences of our security behaviors.

The advent of autonomous vehicles is exciting and alarming. Their success will depend on the driver-vehicle interaction.

How can online social media communities support and empower victims of sexual violence?