The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at

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is a leading interdisciplinary

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, dedicated to exploring the intersection of technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences. Faculty, students, and other researchers come from a variety of disciplines, including Computer Science,

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, Politics,

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, Sociology, and the

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Research areas and projects

The CITP conducts research in a number of areas, such as Internet of things,

artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech r ...

and

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

, blockchain and cryptocurrencies,

electronic voting Electronic voting (also known as e-voting) is voting that uses electronic means to either aid or take care of casting and counting ballots. Depending on the particular implementation, e-voting may use standalone ''electronic voting machines'' ( ...

government transparency Open government is the governing doctrine which sustain that citizens have the right to access the documents and proceedings of the government to allow for effective public oversight. In its broadest construction, it opposes reason of state and ...

, and

intellectual property Intellectual property (IP) is a category of property that includes intangible creations of the human intellect. There are many types of intellectual property, and some countries recognize more than others. The best-known types are patents, cop ...

. Various media outlets, government agencies, and private organizations have cited the research of the CITP. The current Director of the CITP is Matthew J. Salganik, a professor of sociology at Princeton University.

Voting

One of the leading research initiatives at the CITP centers on electronic voting.

Edward Felten Edward William Felten (born March 25, 1963) is the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he was also the Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy from 2007 to 2015 and fr ...

, Ariel J. Feldman, and

J. Alex Halderman J. Alex Halderman (born January 1981) is professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he is also director of the Center for Computer Security & Society. Halderman's research focuses on computer security a ...

conducted security analysis on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, one of the most widely used machines of its kind. They discovered a method that allowed them to upload malicious programs to multiple voting machines. Their research gained additional media attention when it was brought before the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in June 2017.

Interconnection Measurement Project

The Interconnection Measurement Project is an annual initiative at the CITP that provides ongoing data collection and analysis from ISP interconnection points. Aggregated data serving roughly 50 percent of residential broadband subscribes is collected every 5 minutes.

Academics

The CITP offers an undergraduate certificate in Technology and Society, Information Technology Track. This program requires students to complete a combination of core, technology, societal, and breadth courses in and outside the area of information technology. The goal of the program is to help students better understand how technology drives social change and how society itself shapes technology. The CITP also hosts a number of workshops, policy briefings, lecture series, and initiatives at Princeton University.

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