Why Regulation Won’t Harm Cryptocurrencies

There have been recent worries that increased regulation of cryptocurrencies would hurt trading volumes and prices, however, tighter regulation could purge the industry of bad actors and engender trust, which in turn would help it grow, according to Kevin Werbach.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Don’t Fear Cryptocurrencies. Manage Them.

The idea that regulation chills activity in new markets is intuitive, but not always accurate. Sometimes the opposite is true, writes Kevin Werbach in his recent New York Times op-ed.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Cyber comfort and security: Sebastian Angel receives NSF CAREER Award

Congratulations to Sebastian Angel, who recently received an NSF CAREER Award for his project on “Tools for building online services that hide metadata.“

Computer and Information Science

Resilience in Networked Systems

Gamification isn’t all fun and games. It’s serious business.

In a revised and updated edition of ‘For the Win,’ Kevin Werbach argues that gamemakers need not be the only ones benefiting from game design.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Eleni Katifori awarded the 2021 APS Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research

Congratulations to Eleni Katifori, who has been awarded the 2021 APS Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research for her work "For the seminal use of physical principles in understanding living transport networks."

Physics and Astronomy

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Penn Researchers Join NSF-Simons Foundation Collaboration on the ‘Foundations of Deep Learning’

Warren Center faculty affiliates Alejandro Ribeiro, Robert Ghrist, and Edgar Dobriban will partner with an interdisciplinary team led by researchers at Johns Hopkins University in a project called Transferable, Hierarchical, Expressive, Optimal, Robust, & Interpretable NETworks (THEORINET).

Electrical and Systems Engineering
Mathematics
Statistics

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Forging a Resilient Supply Chain in the Era of COVID-19

Gad Allon has crafted a new Wharton Executive Education virtual program, Designing and Managing Supply Chains for the Future. The program teaches how to create strong, nimble, resilient supply chains that can weather the current crisis as well as future shocks.

Operations Information and Decisions

Resilience in Networked Systems

Rakesh Vohra Wins SIGecom Test of Time Award

Warren Center Director Rakesh Vohra received the 2020 SIGecom Test of Time Award. Vohra’s paper, “Calibrated Learning and Correlated Equilibrium,” originally published in 1997, has served as an essential contribution to the literature on game theory.

Economics
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Resilience in Networked Systems

Defining Blockchain

Maybe the reason there is so much confusion and dismissal of blockchain is that we're trying too hard to answers the "what" questions, rather than finding the shortest possible answers to the "why" questions? Kevin Werbach's recent Linkedin op-ed is an attempt at the latter.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Coronavirus Crisis Vindicates the FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Rollback

The widespread imposition of stay-at-home orders has underscored the critical role that access to the internet plays in modern society. Some countries have done a better job than others in deploying high-quality and robust network infrastructure. Christopher Yoo discusses this in his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Law

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News

Why Regulation Won’t Harm Cryptocurrencies

Don’t Fear Cryptocurrencies. Manage Them.

Cyber comfort and security: Sebastian Angel receives NSF CAREER Award

Gamification isn’t all fun and games. It’s serious business.

Eleni Katifori awarded the 2021 APS Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research

Penn Researchers Join NSF-Simons Foundation Collaboration on the ‘Foundations of Deep Learning’

Forging a Resilient Supply Chain in the Era of COVID-19

Rakesh Vohra Wins SIGecom Test of Time Award

Defining Blockchain

Coronavirus Crisis Vindicates the FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Rollback