Tag: arrest

  • Nation & World

    Update on panel’s examination of April arrest

    In a Q&A session, Professor Annette Gordon-Reed talked about the work of the committee she chairs that’s looking into the arrest of a Harvard student last April, and what’s likely to come from that examination.

    7 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Seeking fairness in ads

    Latanya Sweeney, Harvard professor of government and technology in residence, wants to add a new factor to the weighting Google uses when delivering online ads, one that measures bias. In a new paper, she describes how such a calculation could be built into the ad-delivery algorithm Google uses.

    4 minutes