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

Resilience in Networked Systems

Designing a Virtual Neuroscience Conference

Konrad Kording spoke with the Simons Collaboration on the Global Brain about his experience putting together an entirely virtual conference that included invited and contributed talks, panel discussions, and virtual happy hours. About 3,000 people registered for the event, with as many as 1,000 viewing talks simultaneously.

Bioengineering
Neuroscience

Professing Principles of Digital Ethics and Privacy

Anita Allen spoke about her illustrious career, the origins of American privacy law, and her predictions about the information age in a recent interview with CPO Magazine.

Law
Philosophy

Ubiquity of Data

AIMBE Elects 2020 Fellows

The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) announced the election of 156 new members of the AIMBE College of Fellows, including Dani Bassett in recognition of her distinguished and continuing achievements in medical and biological engineering.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Ubiquity of Data

Five tips to stay positive and healthy during social isolation

Penn CIS Professor Lyle Ungar and Penn psychologist Melissa Hunt offer some suggestions to stay positive and healthy in the face of this new social isolation.

Computer and Information Science

Ubiquity of Data

Mapping the Social Network of Coronavirus

In a recent New York Times article, Duncan Watts spoke about how analysts are racing to model the behavior of humans in order to slow the spread of Coronavirus.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Network Systems: Connecting the Dots

On a recent episode of the radio show Choose the Be Curious, Dani Bassett discussed her work at the intersection of basic science, engineering, and clinical medicine — and how she’s taking on curiosity itself.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Ubiquity of Data

Machine learning identifies personalized brain networks in children

In a new study published in the journal Neuron, a multidisciplinary team led by Ted Satterthwaite used machine learning techniques to show how brain networks unique to each child can predict cognition.

Psychiatry

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

What’s behind some of the market volatility? Algorithms.

Behind all the fluctuations we are seeing daily — sometimes even every minute — in the stock market is a hard, cold algorithm that’s driving trading. Michael Kearns discusses this and more on NPR's Marketplace.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Helpful interactions can keep societies stable

New work by Erol Akçay challenges 50-year-old predictions that mutualistic interactions make a community unstable. His work shows that mutualism is compatible with stable communities and that the balance of mutualism with other types of interactions plays determinative roles in the makeup, size, and stability of those communities.

Biology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

News

Rethinking microeconomics

Designing a Virtual Neuroscience Conference

Professing Principles of Digital Ethics and Privacy

AIMBE Elects 2020 Fellows

Five tips to stay positive and healthy during social isolation

Mapping the Social Network of Coronavirus

Network Systems: Connecting the Dots

Machine learning identifies personalized brain networks in children

What’s behind some of the market volatility? Algorithms.

Helpful interactions can keep societies stable