by IQSS Staff

The Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH), one IQSS’s most dynamic scientific programs, has experienced unprecedented growth and accomplishment over the past two years... Read more about From NASA to the Enterprise: LISH Expands Programs in AI, Crowdsourcing, and More

by Seth Soderborg

Those of us who have spent the COVID-19 pandemic living in the US have learned a lot more than we expected to about just how much one’s partisan politics can affect decisions as mundane as whether to take precautions to protect one’s health in the midst of a global pandemic. The reasons for this are fairly straightforward: the US government spent the first year of the pandemic doing its best to take no action, and partisan media echoed that line—specifically targeting mask-wearing and being in crowds as activities that were not so risky. It...

In 2015, Latanya Sweeney received a $250,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to engage a network of scholars and students across the country to explore and scientifically investigate the unforeseen consequences of technology... Read more about Latanya Sweeney’s Technology Science Research Collaboration Network