Tag: Algorithms

  • Science & Tech

    How to spot a gerrymandered district? Compare it to fair ones.

    Harvard team’s tool maps out thousands of nonpartisan options, simulates outcomes, holds up results to those of proposed plans.

    5–8 minutes
    Kosuke Imai and Corey McCartan.
  • Campus & Community

    Coding for a cause

    Professor Jelani Nelson develops new algorithms to make computer systems work more efficiently, but also takes his educational efforts beyond Harvard’s walls. He founded AddisCoder, a program that teaches students in Ethiopia how to code.

    6–9 minutes
    Jelani Nelson sitting in front of a laptop
  • Nation & World

    Don’t trust that algorithm

    Cathy O’Neil, Ph.D. ’99, talks about her new book “Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy” and the quiet dangers of big data.

    7–11 minutes
  • Health

    Detecting autism in matter of minutes

    Researchers at Harvard Medical School have significantly reduced from hours to minutes the time it takes to accurately detect autism in young children.

    3–5 minutes