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 caret-arrow 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 caret-arrow 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 caret-arrow Resilience in Networked Systems
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 caret-arrow Resilience in Networked Systems
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 caret-arrow 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 caret-arrow 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 caret-arrow 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 caret-arrow Resilience in Networked Systems
Analytics, Risk and the 21st Century Supply Chain In light of the recent disruption to the world economy, making use of both Blockchain and Location Intelligence technologies will allow managers to better identify risk and respond early when a pending supply disruption arises. Raghu Iyengar offers some insight into how the risk manager of the future may make use of these tools. Marketing caret-arrow Resilience in Networked Systems
Rethinking microeconomics Economics professor Rakesh Vohra has spent the past five years reimagining the design of the intermediate microeconomics course, resulting in a new book and a new course structure. The approach is unique, and this academic year every full-time student taking intermediate microeconomics is taking Vohra’s innovative version. Economics Electrical and Systems Engineering caret-arrow Resilience in Networked Systems
