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    Q & A with the First Gift Card Raffle Winner

    Last month was the first month a DLABSS participant won an Amazon gift card from our monthly raffle! Because he was our first winner, we sent Matthew a few questions to answer so everyone could learn a little bit more about the individuals that contribute to the success of DLABSS. Our questions and Matthew’s answers are below.  

    How did you first hear about Harvard DLABSS, and why did you decide to participate for the first time?

    “I saw an ad for volunteers to take surveys. My degree is in psych and I remember what it was like looking for [...

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    Always On: Persistent Interactive Jobs on the RCE

    Do you run interactive jobs on the Research Computing Environment (RCE)? You probably do, but, do you know what differentiates interactive jobs from non-interactive or batch RCE jobs?

    It’s simple: Interactive jobs expect user-input and are often GUI providing applications like XStata, Matlab, or Mathematica. Batch jobs expect no user input and run in parallel without intervention.

    How RCE powered applications work now

     

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    Langdell in Winter

    Curious to know what campus looked like in winters past? Swing by the exhibit case in the link between Areeda and Langdell Halls for a peak at images dating from 1948 to just a few years ago.

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    MTurk Results have been Replicated by DLABSS!

    Professor Enos has successfully replicated the results of a study performed in Mechanical Turk using DLABSS. This means that DLABSS could be a suitable replacement for MTurk as a way of gathering data, and is great news for researchers currently using DLABSS or researchers considering using DLABSS in the future. The report written by Professor Enos explaining his findings is below:

        DLABSS has successfully replicated several studies in Mechanical Turk. By replicating studies—meaning the results obtained in DLABSS and Mechanical Turk were...

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    Plugin Updates for OJS 2.4.6

    Thanks to the helpful feedback of several journals using OJS we have been able to add new features and implement fixes to the OJS Dataverse plugin. These will be made available with the release of OJS 2.4.6, which is scheduled for late February.

    Here is a list of some of the most recent features & fixes for the OJS Dataverse Plugin:

    • Data citation is updated on the OJS side after releasing a study on the Dataverse side.
    • Ensure that all deletions/update of Dataverse study files is tracked on the OJS side.
    • A dataverse can now be...
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    Building a Satisfying Career in Science: Advice to Undergraduate Researchers from Dr. Marcia McNutt

    by Margaret A. Lynch

    
Dr. Marcia McNutt presented the opening keynote address at the 2015 National Collegiate Research Conference at Harvard University. Her talk, entitled Building a satisfying career in science: how I stumbled into mine, so you don’t need to stumble into yours, offered sage advice to the conference attendees.

    McNutt has had a wide-ranging and inspirational career. In 2013 she became the 19th editor and the first woman Editor-in-Chief of Science magazine, a top-tier group of primary research journals. To that position she brings a...

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    Q & A with our Second Gift Card Winner

    Last month another DLABSS participant won an Amazon gift card from our monthly raffle! As our second winner, we wanted to follow up with a few questions for Jason to learn what DLABSS' participants like him are thinking. Our questions and Jason’s answers are below.  

    How did you first hear about Harvard DLABSS, and why did you decide to participate for the first time?

    “I first heard about Harvard DLABSS [through] Craigslist. I personally enjoy surveys that contribute to real life issues, as opposed to consumer products or something similar...

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    Visiting Scholar Marco Gaboardi presents "Relational verification of Differential Privacy and Mechanism Design"

    Visiting Scholar Marco Gaboardi spoke at the Harvard Theory of Computation Seminar. He will present, "Relational verification of Differential Privacy and Mechanism Design" to a theory audience.

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    Speaker:   Marco Gaboardi, University of Dundee and Visiting Scholar at Harvard CRCS

    Place and Time:  Monday, March 9, 2015 – 1:00pm to 2:30pm. 

    Room:  Brooks Room (Pierce Hall 213)

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    Privacy Tools participates in TPDP Workshop as program chair, committee, and invited speaker

    Visiting Scholar Marco Gaboardi is serving as the program chair of the Theory and Practice of Differential Privacy (TPDP) Workshop, to be held in London, UK on April 18th, 2015. The TPDP workshop is a part of The European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS), the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. The program committee...

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    Registration is open for the National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in STEM

    by Margaret A. Lynch

    Registration is open for the 2015 National Symposium for the Advancement of Women in STEM on April 11 at Harvard University in Cambridge.

    Highlights of the event include keynote presentations by Dr. Marcia McNutt, geophysicist and Editor-in-Chief of Science; Dr. Polly Matzinger, Senior Investigator, T Cell Tolerance & Memory Section, Laboratory of Immunogenetics, NIAID, NIH; and Dr. Stefanie Tellex, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Brown University.

    In addition to these...

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    Merce Crosas and Steve Chong on Security & Privacy Panel at Women Engineers Code Conference

    Merce Crosas and Steve Chong both appeared on a panel on security and privacy at Women Engineers Code (WECode) Conference, at Harvard University in February. WE Code hopes to cultivate the next generation of technical leaders, foster a network and community among collegiate engineers, and promote more female representation in the technical industry.

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