Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
Above all, everyone wants voting to be fair. What does fair mean and how can we measure it? Kenneth Arrow posited a simple set of conditions that one would certainly desire in a voting system. For exa...
4 Dec 202026min
Face Mask Sentiment Analysis
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the public (or at least those with Twitter accounts) are sharing their personal opinions about mask-wearing via Twitter. What does this data tell us about public op...
27 Nov 202041min
Counting Briberies in Elections
Niclas Boehmer, second year PhD student at Berlin Institute of Technology, comes on today to discuss the computational complexity of bribery in elections through the paper "On the Robustness of Winner...
20 Nov 202037min
Sybil Attacks on Federated Learning
Clement Fung, a Societal Computing PhD student at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses his research in security of machine learning systems and a defense against targeted sybil-based poisoning called...
13 Nov 202031min
Differential Privacy at the US Census
Simson Garfinkel, Senior Computer Scientist for Confidentiality and Data Access at the US Census Bureau, discusses his work modernizing the Census Bureau disclosure avoidance system from private to pu...
6 Nov 202029min
Distributed Consensus
Computer Science research fellow of Cambridge University, Heidi Howard discusses Paxos, Raft, and distributed consensus in distributed systems alongside with her work "Paxos vs. Raft: Have we reached ...
30 Okt 202027min
ACID Compliance
Linhda joins Kyle today to talk through A.C.I.D. Compliance (atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability). The presence of these four components can ensure that a database's transaction is compl...
23 Okt 202023min
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact
Patrick Rosenstiel joins us to discuss the The National Popular Vote.
16 Okt 202030min
