In recent years, artificial intelligence has had a tremendous impact on every field, and
several definitions of its different types have been provided. In the literature, most articles …

Marr's levels of analysis—computational, algorithmic, and implementation—have served
cognitive science well over the last 30 years. But the recent increase in the popularity of the …

Data-governance law-the legal regime that regulates how data about people is collected,
processed, and used-is the subject of lively theorizing and several proposed legislative …

Modeling human cognition is challenging because there are infinitely many mechanisms
that can generate any given observation. Some researchers address this by constraining the …

Nakamoto's famous blockchain protocol enables achieving consensus in a so-called
permissionless setting---anyone can join (or leave) the protocol execution, and the protocol …

Mechanism design is a form of optimization developed in economic theory. It casts
economists as institutional engineers, choosing an outcome and then arranging a set of …

In the philosophy of science why-questions are a way to address the foundations of scientific
explanation. For Bas van Fraassen (1980), a theory of explanation is essentially a theory of …

Administrative law has a blind spot. It is blackletter doctrine that an agency's failure to
consider the impacts of its conduct can lead to court invalidation of its decision as arbitrary …

The field of machine learning is progressing at a faster pace than ever before. Many
organizations leverage machine learning tools to extract useful information from a massive …

Existing work on" rational cryptographic protocols" treats each party (or coalition of parties)
running the protocol as a selfish agent trying to maximize its utility. In this work we propose a …