Artificial Intelligence Tools and Practices

Cathy Chute is executive director of the Institute for Applied Computational Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The institute promotes computational and data science and is home to two master's programs.  Previously, she was a consultant to nonprofit media start-ups on business development, marketing, and fundraising, including ChopChop magazine and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. Formerly publisher of Harvard Magazine, she directed a team of integrated marketing and media professionals with responsibility for advertising sales, audience development, fundraising and alumni engagement, digital communications strategy, and production. Earlier in her career, she spent more than a decade at The New York Times Company as a director of new business development, marketing services manager, marketing director, and circulation planning manager. She also worked in market research at the New Yorker and Working Woman magazine. Besides teaching at the Harvard Extension School, she has moderated case discussions online for Harvard Business Publishing's corporate learning division and taught at Boston University's Center for Professional Education. She is a member of the Harvard Board of Freshman Advisers and the Ad Club of Boston.