In 1937, a young Englishman by the name of Alan M. Turing published a paper with the obscure title "On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem'' in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society. In doing so, he arguably laid the mathematical foundations of modern computer science. Turing's seminal…
MPI-SWS faculty member Björn Brandenburg has received the first ever SIGBED Early Career Researcher Award. The award is given by ACM SIGBED to recognize outstanding contributions by young investigators in the area of embedded, real-time, and cyber-physical systems.
Four papers from MPI-SWS have been accepted to AAAI 2018: Beyond Distributive Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making: Feature Selection for Procedurally Fair LearningLearning to Interact with Learning AgentsInformation Gathering with Peers: Submodular Optimization with Peer-Prediction ConstraintsLearning User Preferences to Incentivize Exploration in the Sharing Economy
Three papers from MPI-SWS have been accepted to the 2018 Web Conference: Human Perceptions of Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making: A Case Study of Criminal Risk Prediction On the Causal Effect of Badges Fake News Detection in Social Networks via Crowd Signals
Bug bounty programs are a popular way to find security flaws in deployed systems. We are the first to use a bounty program to find flaws in anonymization schemes, namely the anonymization scheme we designed called Diffix. We take an empirical approach to anonymization rather than the more common formal…
