Jeffrey Schnapp is the founder/faculty director of metaLAB (at) Harvard and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. He holds the Carl A. Pescosolido Chair in Romance Languages and Literatures and Comparative Literature in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and is on the teaching faculty in the Department of Architecture at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. Originally trained as a medievalist, his recent publications concern the modern and contemporary eras with a focus on media, technology, architecture, design, and the history of the book. They include The Electric Information Age Book ([Princeton Architectural Press 2012]); an anthology of essays on 20th century Italian art, literature, design, and architecture entitled Modernitalia (Peter Lang 2012); The Library Beyond the Book (Harvard University Press 2014), co-authored with Matthew Battles; Digital Humanities (Egea 2015), an essay on cultural heritage management published in Italian in the Meet the Media Guru series; and Blueprint for Counter Education — Expanded Reprint, a reprint edition of Maurice Stein and Larry Miller’s 1970 work of radical pedagogy. His latest book is FuturPiaggio. Six Italian Lessons on Mobility and Modern Life, published in both English and Italian by Rizzoli International (2017. Schnapp is the editor of the metaLABprojects series with MIT Press. Among his current writing projects is the Library Test Kitchen Cookbook, a collaborative recipe-book for innovation in the design of learning spaces, and a study of the artist-designer Bruno Munari, entitled Bruno Munari, A to Z (Phaidon). (Other current or future projects are described under the In Progress tab of this website). Schnapp’s pioneering work in the domains of media, knowledge design, digital arts and humanities, and curatorial practice includes collaborations with the Triennale di Milano, the Cantor Center for the Visual Arts, the Wolfsonian-FIU, the Canadian Center for Architecture, and the Fondazione Cirulli. His collaborative Trento Tunnels project—a 6000 sq. meter pair of highway tunnels in Northern Italy repurposed as a history museum—was featured in the Italian pavilion of the 2010 Venice Biennale of Architecture and at the MAXXI in Rome in RE-CYCLE. Strategie per la casa la città e il pianeta (fall-winter 2011). Panorama of the Cold War, carried out with Elisabetta Terragni (Studio Terragni Architetti) and Daniele Ledda (XY comm), was exhibited in the Albanian Pavilion of the 2012 Venice Biennale of Architecture and in Erasmus Effect – Architetti italiani all’estero / Italian Architects Abroad at the MAXXI (Dec. 2013-April 2014). He also served as lead curator for BZ ’18-’45, a documentation center built under Marcello Piacentini’s Monument to Victory in Bolzano/Bozen open to the public since July 2014. BZ ’18-’45 was awarded Honorable Mention in the 2016 Museum of the Year competition by the European Museum Forum. His most recent curatorial project, Universo futurista / Futurist Universe, opened at the Fondazione Cirulli in Bologna on April 21, 2018. After three years of service as co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Piaggio Fast Forward, Schnapp assumed the new position of Chief Visionary Officer effective mid-June 2018. Piaggio Fast Forward is a Boston-based subsidiary of the Milan-based Piaggio Group, known throughout the world for iconic vehicles like the Vespa and iconic brands like Aprilia and Moto Guzzi.

Bruce Schneier is a security technologist and author, and currently teaches Internet security policy at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. He studies the security of complex socio-technical systems. He is also a special advisor to IBM Security.

Yonadav is a 1st-year graduate student in computer science at Harvard, focusing on the technical challenges of integrating machine learning into social systems. He completed his BS '16 and ME '17 at MIT (also in computer science), where his thesis work focused on deep reinforcement learning. He enjoys ultimate, symphonic video game orchestrations, and speaking about himself in the third person. I'm currently exploring: To what extent does the automation of the labor necessary for the function of the state weaken labor's hand by reducing its monopoly on the means of production, and thus move us closer to dictatorship? What characterizes technologies that do not have this negative social externality, and how can we what would we need to do to make machine learning one of these technologies?

I'm Stuart Shieber, Welch Professor of Computer Science in the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. My primary research field is computational linguistics, a subfield of artificial intelligence studying human languages from the perspective of computer science, with application to a wide range of language processing technologies. I was founding director of the Center for Research on Computation and Society and am a faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center. My spring 2018 course, CS51: Abstraction and Design in Computation, introduced ethical topics to some 300 introductory computer science students as part of the Embedded EthiCS program.

Alison Simmons is the Samuel H. Wolcott Professor of Philosophy (and interim Chair of the department this year.) My research focuses on theories of mind and perception, particularly in the 17th century, when our conception of these things changed radically. I've been working in tandem with Barbara Grosz over the past two years to develop the Embedded EthiCS program across the CS curriculum. The program aims to teach students to create not only efficient but also ethical and responsible technologies.

Josh is a graduate student in the Government Department. His dissertation explores the politics and ethics of machine learning. This includes questions about discrimination, equality and power in the process of machine learning itself, as well as broader political questions raised by the widespread adoption of machine learning into many of our fundamental political and economic institutions. Josh is also working on projects with Danielle Allen on 'Political Economy and Justice' and with Michael Sandel on the social and political theory of work. Josh formerly worked as a Policy Advisor for the Labour Party in the British Parliament and graduated with a starred double first in Politics from Cambridge University. I'm currently exploring: How should *who* is asking for an explanation of how a machine learning model works or of a particular result affect what *form* of explanation is most appropriate? What range of normative purposes does explanation serve?

Charlie Stang is the Professor of Early Christian Thought at HDS, and Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions. One of the Center’s five programming priorities is on “Time and Technology." He is also serving as the faculty advisor for an independent study at HDS on “technology, spirituality, and ethics,” led in part by Aden Van Noppen, and Joe Pinto.
His research and teaching focus on the history and theology of Christianity in late antiquity, especially Eastern varieties of Christianity. More specifically, he is interested in the development of asceticism, monasticism, and mysticism in Eastern Christianity.

Lavanya is a first-year at Harvard College intending to study Computer Science and Philosophy. She has conducted research at the International Computer Science Institute on a project investigating the technical and policy challenges of geoblocking and as an intern at SnapWiz Inc. on an app that enables employers to easily test a job applicant's coding abilities. She is the founding CEO of a nonprofit called TechGirls dedicated to leveling the gender gap in STEM. She collaborated with the UN Foundation adolescent girl campaign to start their Women in STEM initiative and advocate for girls' education in refugee camps. I'm currently exploring: How to incorporate social consciousness at every level of development in tech.

Irene is a second-year Master in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School. Originally from the D.C. area, she began working with the U.S. Department of State's Server Operations Center while in high school before working on foreign policy with the U.S. Foreign Service. As part of the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) team, she trains U.S. election officials how to best respond to cyberattacks. Her current research studies blockchain applications to cybersecurity, but coursework examines AI in international security. Irene is interested in the intersection of technology, public policy, and security.

I'm currently exploring: From private sector research to developing lethal autonomous weaponry, state governments are investing in AI research in the new 'Space Race.' How does this affect private-public sector relations and international governmental and corporate relations? To what degree should the government be involved in regulation, at risk of moving innovation overseas? Can biases and error in intelligence systems reinforce that unwanted behavior in society? What are the impli

I’m Michael Sulmeyer, the Belfer Center's Cyber Security Project Director at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government. I am also a Contributing Editor for the national security blog Lawfare. Before Harvard, I was the Director for Plans and Operations for Cyber Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. In the mid-1990s, I was the System Operator (SysOp) of The Summit BBS in Santa Barbara, California.