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PrivacyInformer : an automated privacy description generator for the MIT App Inventor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
With the advent of "smart" mobile phones and ubiquitous mobile applications, the pace at which people generate, access, and acquire data has accelerated significantly. In this thesis, we first examine how privacy issues ...
An analysis of the potential economic impact of natural gas production in Tanzania
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Following substantial discoveries of natural gas in recent years, Tanzania has new options for economic development. The country's policy makers are faced with having to make decisions about how best to utilize the gas in ...
FairML : ToolBox for diagnosing bias in predictive modeling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Predictive models are increasingly deployed for the purpose of determining access to services such as credit, insurance, and employment. Despite societal gains in efficiency and productivity through deployment of these ...
Discrimination, fairness and prediction in policing : fare evasion in New York City
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Predictive policing has quickly become widespread in the United States. Practitioners claim it can greatly increase police efficiency and base decisions on objective statistics. Critics say that these algorithms reproduce ...
Cross-user subsidy in residential broadband service
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
The rapid growth of Internet traffic has made Internet Service Providers (ISP) struggle to upgrade network capacity and to maintain service quality. The increase in the broadband usage impacts the cost of an ISP through ...
Transfer learning for predictive models in MOOCs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Predictive models are crucial in enabling the personalization of student experiences in Massive Open Online Courses. For successful real-time interventions, these models must be transferable - that is, they must perform ...
Integration of distributed and heterogeneous information for public-private policy analyses
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
Databases and analysis tools currently being used to study carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS) options are managed by diverse organizations and are heterogeneous in format. Tools to study the various components of a ...
A theory and toolkit for the mathematics of privacy : methods for anonymizing data while minimizing information loss
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
Privacy laws are an important facet of our society. But they can also serve as formidable barriers to medical research. The same laws that prevent casual disclosure of medical data have also made it difficult for researchers ...
Knowledge organization and content generation in knowledgemediaries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)
Capacity value of variable renewable energy and energy storage
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Variable renewable energy (VRE) resources account for approximately half of new capacity additions in independent system operator (ISO) markets in the United States in the last five years. When designing and implementing ...