MIT CSAILDIG

Accountable Systems Research Project

Broad Goal

Accountability means that actions get tied to consequences.

Research Areas

  1. policy languages for accountability
  2. distributed, scalable reasoning
  3. policy aware access control
  4. formal models of accountable systems
  5. jurisprudence of accountable systems
  6. ethnography of accountable systems

Current collaborators

Funded Activities

Project Funder Start/End
Policy Aware Web NSF 10/04 - 9/07
Transparent Accountable Data Mining Initiatve (TAMI NSF 9/05 - 8/08
End-to-End Semantic Accountability IAPRA 6/07 - 12/08
Theory and Practice of Accountable Systems (TPAS) NSF 10/08 - 9/2012
Policy Assurance for Private Information Retrieval IARPA 12/08 - 3/2010*
Accountable Fusion Center Data Sharing IARPA/DHS 1/09 - 12/2010*

*in negotiation

Collaboration style

*New


Danny Weitzner
2 November 2008