Neil Seeman is a Canadian writer and researcher whose work spans public policy, technology, and health. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2000, writing about technology policy issues including the risks and misuses of software and computing.
For fun, I decided to take PolicyMaker for a test drive. I asked the program to tell me how to persuade Harvard University to hand over a small chunk of its mammoth $ 14 billion endowment to the poor communities in nearby Roxbury and South Boston. Miraculously, after I plugged in all the "players"…
PolicyMaker 2.2 TM is a jazzy new computer program devised by Harvard University professor Michael Reich. Selling for just under $ 100, this Nintendo-style spreadsheet -- which bills itself as the latest in "computer-assisted political analysis" (CAPA) -- has entered the curriculum at schools of…