Penn joins Public Interest Technology University Network

Through the leadership of Warren Center affiliate Christopher Yoo and housed within Penn's SNF Paideia Program, a new partnership with the Public Interest Technology University Network will deepen Penn's investment in STEM training for the public good.

Computer and Information Science
Law

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The Self-Organized Movement to Create an Inclusive Computational Neuroscience School

In less than three months, Konrad Kording and his colleagues developed an interactive online course catering to more than 1,750 students in more than 70 countries- Neuromatch Academy.

Bioengineering
Neuroscience

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To be successful online, faculty went back to the classroom

Among the many approaches professors are using to teach online is to create videos of lectures for students to access anytime and to devote class time together for discussion and group activities. Math professor Robert Ghrist created a video textbook to teach multivariable calculus.

Mathematics

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Leveraging Analytics Today and Tomorrow: Test and Learn

In this Wharton@Work article, Raghu Iyengar discusses customer behavior in today’s pandemic world, and in the post-pandemic future. "Companies that were already digital have a lot of data, but to successfully harness the power of analytics, new competencies have to be built."

Marketing

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Blockchain: The Last, Best Hope for Open Data

In Kevin Werbach's winning essay in the Nesta Decentralized Future Prize essay contest, he argues that blockchain will see mass adoption ‘behind the scenes’ in the infrastructural foundations of digital identity and hardware, and big tech will participate in the new decentralised data economy because it provides benefits for them.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

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Workshop on Equivariance and Data Augmentation

Recently, there has been a great deal of progress to develop improved equivariant and invariant learning architectures, as well as improved data augmentation methods. View the recorded talks from this recent workshop, organized by Edgar Dobriban and Kostas Daniilidis.

Computer and Information Science
Statistics

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Creating Inclusive Public Policies: Guidelines for Compassionate Regulators

Why are some government policies more inclusive than others, striving to benefit all citizens and not just a select few? “We believe that a policy’s success largely rests on how well inclusion is embedded in its blueprints,” write Santosh K. Misra and Raghuram Iyengar in this opinion piece.

Marketing

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Estimating COVID Intervention Effectiveness with ‘Censored’ Testing

In its COVID-19 Rapid-Response research project, Hamsa Bastani's team focused on the use of proxy methods to generate more accurate infection estimates. She explains how her team calculated that Pennsylvania's COVID-19 positive test rate is actually about 60% higher than is publicly reported.

Operations Information and Decisions

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Behind the Buzzwords- Big Data

The first academic reference to Big Data came in a paper written in 2003 by Francis Diebold. He explains how he was inspired by George Orwell’s Big Brother when he first used the term, as the data we now generate is being collected with every click we make.

Economics
Finance
Statistics

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Iranian, American health experts share coronavirus experiences in rare talk

The coronavirus crisis and the move to online events presented Penn’s Middle East Center with a rare opportunity to foster the first public conversation about the virus between senior health officials in Iran and counterparts in the United States, moderated by Jonathan Moreno.

History and Sociology of Science
Medical Ethics and Health Policy

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News

Penn joins Public Interest Technology University Network

The Self-Organized Movement to Create an Inclusive Computational Neuroscience School

To be successful online, faculty went back to the classroom

Leveraging Analytics Today and Tomorrow: Test and Learn

Blockchain: The Last, Best Hope for Open Data

Workshop on Equivariance and Data Augmentation

Creating Inclusive Public Policies: Guidelines for Compassionate Regulators

Estimating COVID Intervention Effectiveness with ‘Censored’ Testing

Behind the Buzzwords- Big Data

Iranian, American health experts share coronavirus experiences in rare talk