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A Last Blog Post About Voting
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2024-11/2024-11-04.html
Published: November 4, 2024 21:17
A few miscellaneous notes about voting… First, it’s a subject I’ve often blogged about before. Go to the tag index on my blog and search for voting; you’ll see a number of posts. Second: when I looked at the tag index, I saw that 16 years ago I’d…
Voting: The Role of Process
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2024-11/2024-11-03.html
Published: November 4, 2024 01:53
A lot of attention in the technical elections community has to do with the actual mechanism for casting a vote, and in particular the use and type of voting machines, risk-limiting audits, etc. But the process of actually getting to cast the ballot is…
Voting While Temporarily Disabled
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2024-10/2024-10-31.html
Published: October 31, 2024 20:39
I’m temporarily disabled: I fell and fractured my shoulder about a week and a half ago. My right arm is in a sling; I can’t write. It’s election season in the US, so I wondered what the experience would be like casting a vote in New York City. (Aside: I…
New Report: Challenging the Machine: Contestability in Government AI Systems
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2024-06/2024-06-18.html
Published: June 18, 2024 15:53
There is a new report out, Challenging the Machine: Contestability in Government AI Systems, by Susan Landau, James X. Dempsey, Ece Kamar, Steven M. Bellovin, and Robert Pool. You can download it from https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.10430. Abstract: In an…
My Retirement Talk
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/blog/2024-05/2024-05-09.html
Published: May 9, 2024 22:04
I’m in the process of retiring, and although I will not be settling back in my rocking chair—I have lots of writing I want to do—I’m no longer teaching. On April 30, I gave a farewell talk. If you’re interested, the video is here and the slides are here.…