While we know that algorithms are an increasingly important part of what information people encounter in everyday life, little work has focused on studying users’ awareness and understanding of how ...

Last year, Princeton researchers identified a disturbing security flaw in which hackers could someday exploit internet-connected appliances to wreak havoc on the electrical grid. Now, the same ...

While the failures of industrial-scale algorithms are often attributed to some failure of machine learning engineering, many of these failures actually stem from something else entirely: the human ...

Given an average Princeton student’s numerous classes and extracurricular activities, it may be difficult to naturally find “the one.” However, Valentine’s Day at Princeton has brought a resurgence of ...

Orestis Papakyriakopoulos and Arwa Michelle Mboya, article co-authors, performed a socio-computational interrogation of the google search by image algorithm, a main component of the google search ...

Policymakers and the public are increasingly interested in the effects of social media algorithms on society. In this talk some of the challenges this topic poses to researchers will be outlined. Two ...