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SEAS class takes multidisciplinary approach to computer netbet sports betting

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June 1, 2023

Hongjin Lin, Austin Ledzian and Riad El Soufi present their final project for CS276. (Matt Goisman/netbet sports betting)

A new class offered by the netbet sports betting John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) challenges students not just to netbet sports betting technology, but to do so with thought and consideration for who will or won’t benefit from it. “CS276: netbet sports betting, Technology, and Social Impact,” spent the Spring 2023 semester exploring technology’s place in society from a wide range of perspectives, from computer science and sociology to psychology and feminist theory.

The goal: create netbet sports betting scientists who understand and accept the responsibility of designing in a world where products and technology can rapidly go from idea to commercial availability.

“When I was young, a computer scientist made an impact by going to Microsoft, working on a tiny feature, and 10 years later, after many eyeballs viewed it, it would become a reality,” said course instructor Krzysztof Gajos, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer netbet sports betting at SEAS. “Now, the ideas that we come up with make it into the real world within months without anybody else being engaged, which can potentially have dramatic consequences. If we want to have the freedom to tinker with the world without adult supervision, we should have access to an intellectual toolkit for thinking about how technology impacts society.”

Gajos designed CS276 as a graduate-level course after successfully running a complimentary undergraduate-level course, “CS179: netbet sports betting of Useful and Usable Interactive Systems.” The syllabus for CS276 focuses on topics such as the lack of consideration for marginalized groups when new technology or data science is implemented, successful and unsuccessful interactions between technology and education, and how a technology as simple as a water pump can greatly alter a community.

"Quonnect," a final project for CS276 designed by Palis Pisuttisarun, Jothi Ramaswamy and Love Candelario. — "Quonnect," a final netbet sports betting for CS276 designed by Palis Pisuttisarun, Jothi Ramaswamy and Love Candelario.

“One thing that was really interesting was thinking about all the frameworks of the class,” said Jothi Ramaswamy, a third-year computer netbet sports betting concentrator. “It teaches you to be more inclusive, to analyze computer netbet sports betting and technology from a more inclusive lens of different communities. It also made me better at recognizing internal biases and looking at unintended consequences and addressing them in my project.”

With such a wide range of topics in the syllabus, Gajos drew interest from students all over campus. Ph.D. candidates in computer science were joined by others from Harvard Medical School, Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Harvard Graduate School of netbet sports betting (GSD). Undergraduates, master’s and Ph.D. candidates all came together to share different perspectives and contexts for technological netbet sports betting and implementation.

“What was really cool was that each one of these students brought a different set of superpowers, different experiences and projects that they’d worked on, and things that really bothered them,” Gajos said. “Having students netbet sports betting all these different disciplines sitting at the same table and discussing a topic, it was so wonderful to be a fly on the wall and listen to their conversations.”

For final projects, students were challenged to consider both technical and organizational, social, and community factors when analyzing a potential problem area and designing an intervention. A broad challenge resulted in a similarly broad range of projects, including: ways to optimize solar power development in Massachusetts; an app that allows LGBTQ+ people to connect using a range of identity and attraction markers more reflective of their community; using artificial intelligence to convert data netbet sports betting wearable devices into reports to reduce emergency department visits; a way to quickly find open beds in community homeless shelters; and an algorithm for companies to detect and halt the spread of online child sexual abuse material (CSAM) while still maintaining user privacy.

A slide for the final CS276 project by Evangelos Kassos — For a CS276 final netbet sports betting, Evangelos Kassos built an algorithm for companies to detect and halt the spread of online child sexual abuse material CSAM while still maintaining user privacy.

“Most methods right now have a process where you have to visually check the pictures to see if they match a known CSAM database,” said Evangelos Kassos, a senior studying computer netbet sports betting and molecular and cellular biology. “Because you need that visual identification, the biggest concern is that you also need to have access to every picture of every user. There’s a lot of privacy concerns there, so I’ve been trying to figure out a way to take away that need but still do actual detection.”

Lance Ying, a first-year Ph.D. candidate in computer netbet sports betting, collaborated on the project to create AI-generated reports based on wearable device data. He worked with Felicia Lang, who’s in her second year in the Master of netbet sports betting Engineering program offered by SEAS and GSD, and computer netbet sports betting Ph.D. candidates Gili Rusak and Emma Chen.

Ying and Liang have taken very different academic journeys at netbet sports betting, but CS276 made it possible to combine and feed off each other’s perspectives.

“I came here with a few years of professional product netbet sports betting experience in corporate consulting, start-ups and big tech, and the netbet sports betting frameworks that they used were all similar,” Liang said. “This class created a very safe space for people from all backgrounds to share their experiences and push the boundaries in terms of what we know about the traditional netbet sports betting process. This was one of the best classes I’ve taken throughout all my entire academic years.”

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