Can anyone predict the future of cryptocurrency right now?

“The crypto space changes so rapidly that making predictions is always dangerous,” says Kevin Werbach, who sees the absence of an explicit legal framework in the U.S. as a key challenge. for the future of the blockchain and digital-asset industry.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Ask Like an Expert: What Can Network Theory Offer Public Health?

Moved to action by the Covid-19 pandemic, Shirin Saeedi Bidokhti and Saswati Sarkar use their expertise in wireless networking to create improved testing and vaccination strategies for disease containment.

Electrical and Systems Engineering

Resilience in Networked Systems

FTC Chair Khan Names Aviv Nevo as the Agency’s Director of Bureau of Economics

Aviv Nevo has been appointed to serve as Director of the FTC’s Bureau of Economics. “I’m excited that we will have Aviv on board as the FTC’s director of the Bureau of Economics,” Chair Khan said. “His insights and expertise will be an asset to our agency and to our work serving the American public.”

Economics
Marketing

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What the FTX Collapse Means for the Cryptocurrency Market

The rapid fall of FTX makes clear that better regulation is necessary to protect investors and reduce crime in the cryptocurrency market. Kevin Werbach, a longtime advocate of stronger oversight, explains why the path to regulation isn’t a straight line.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Wharton launches Ivy League’s first certification program in the metaverse

Kevin Werbach outlines three takeaways about Wharton's new certificate program on the emerging technology. This six-week online program on Business in the Metaverse will run from Sept. 12 to Nov. 6, making it the first Ivy League certificate program on the metaverse.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Smarter health: How Greece used AI to reopen its borders and curb COVID

On Boston’s WBUR, Hamsa Bastani discusses how Greece used artificial intelligence to speed up the reopening of its borders during the pandemic even though the country had limited testing capacity and little money.

Operations Information and Decisions

Resilience in Networked Systems

2022 NVMW Persistent Impact Prize

Benjamin Lee has received the 2022 Non-Volatile Memories Workshop (NVMW) Persistent Impact Prize for his paper on "Architecting phase change memory as a scalable DRAM alternative," which appeared in ISCA 2009.

Electrical and Systems Engineering

Resilience in Networked Systems

Inside the Supply Chain Crisis

The worldwide supply chain, so prized for its efficiency, has struggled to withstand the critical disruptions the pandemic caused and to meet the consumer demands created by an almost-overnight reordering of everyday life. Gad Allon comments in this Wharton Magazine article.

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Why the U.S. Government Should Regulate Cryptocurrency

Kevin Werbach explains why the Biden administration’s executive order to develop a national policy on cryptocurrency is an important step forward on this episode of Wharton Business Daily on SiriusXM.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Secure Imprecision: Andreas Haeberlen speaks on the importance of Differential Privacy

During the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the US, testing and contact tracing failed to quell the spread. Many circumstances contributed to this outcome, however, according to Andreas Haeberlen, one of the main reasons contact tracing wasn’t more successful is simple: people don’t feel comfortable sharing their information.

Computer and Information Science

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News

Can anyone predict the future of cryptocurrency right now?

Ask Like an Expert: What Can Network Theory Offer Public Health?

FTC Chair Khan Names Aviv Nevo as the Agency’s Director of Bureau of Economics

What the FTX Collapse Means for the Cryptocurrency Market

Wharton launches Ivy League’s first certification program in the metaverse

Smarter health: How Greece used AI to reopen its borders and curb COVID

2022 NVMW Persistent Impact Prize

Inside the Supply Chain Crisis

Why the U.S. Government Should Regulate Cryptocurrency

Secure Imprecision: Andreas Haeberlen speaks on the importance of Differential Privacy