> the article fell between the gaps between two different disciplines This is exactly right - Dr Sweeney went on to cofound a PhD program at CMU focused on thi

> the article fell between the gaps between two different disciplines This is exactly right - Dr Sweeney went on to cofound a PhD program at CMU focused on this intersection, called "Computation, Organizations and Society". It's not just that policy folks aren't tech literate and that applied cs folks don't know law -- there are interesting technical results that evince at the intersection, like differential privacy frameworks and mechanism design. A challenge of this kind of work is that it's difficult to prove generality or prediction power, because you are studying distributed systems that don't repeat themselves. Economists and sociologists are used to this problem, but it's hard to intersect with the more technical applied sciences that you would like to vet the work. So most practitioners have to pick one side or the other (hard vs "soft" communities) one publication at a time.