Description
Private Automated Contact Tracing (PACT1) was a collaborative team and effort formed during the beginning of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. PACT’s mission was to enhance contact tracing in pandemic response by designing exposure-detection functions in personal digital communication devices that have maximal public health utility while preserving privacy. PACT was led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative, Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health and MIT Lincoln Laboratory (MIT LL).PACT convened two scientific workshops relating to privacy-preserving AEN: one virtual workshop in April 2020 and a second hybrid workshop in October 2021. I attended the second workshop, which lead to a report and serves as PACT’s final report. It seeks to explain and discuss the use of automated exposure notification during the COVID-19 pandemic and to provide some recommendations for those who may try to design and deploy similar technologies in future pandemics.
The report is here: https://www.ll.mit.edu/sites/default/files/publication/doc/automated-exposure-notification-COVID-19-Schiefelbein-tr-1288.pdf
| Period | 26 Oct 2021 → 27 Oct 2021 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Boston, United StatesShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |