A lovely interview with Cynthia Dwork in the New York Times on bias in computations. In particular, discussing our work (joint with Moritz Hardt, Toni Pitassi and Rich Zemel) on Fairness through Awareness. Our Science article, The reusable holdout: Preserving validity in adaptive data analysis (joint with Cynthia Dwork, Vitaly Feldman, Moritz Hardt, Toniann Pitassi and Aaron … Continue reading Outreach on Fairness, Privacy and Data Analysis

[Below is a guest post from Sanjeev Arora on his redesign of the traditional graduate algorithms course to be a better match for today's students. --Boaz] For the last two years I have tried new ideas in teaching algorithms at the graduate level. The course is directed at first year CS grads, but is also taken by grads … Continue reading Sanjeev Arora on rethinking the graduate algorithms course