What happened when Boston Schools tried for bus fairness with an algorithm

sandbagger writes: Last year, the Boston Public Schools asked MIT graduate students Sébastien Martin and Arthur Delarue to build an algorithm that could do the enormously complicated work of changing start times at dozens of schools — and rerouting the hundreds of buses that serve them. In theory this would also help with student alertness.

The political firestorm that erupted proved once more that computer can solve problems but whether or not the answer is politically or socially acceptable is another matter

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