Is Streaming the Future of TV Programming?

Raghu Iyengar joined the Wharton Business Daily podcast to talk about the complex market for streaming services, the challenges that come with continually creating fresh, new content, and the future of TV programming.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

Science Magazine’s favorite photos of 2019

Curated from the thousands of photos that graced their website and magazine in 2019, Science Magazine chronicled their favorite photos of the year. Included in the top 20 is a photo of Danielle Bassett standing near her lab’s representation of the brain’s structural connections, which was made from MRI data.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

How biology creates networks that are cheap, robust, and efficient

A new study in Physical Review Letters from Eleni Katifori shows how a wide variety of vascular networks can be created by changing only a small number of a network’s attributes.

Physics and Astronomy

Ubiquity of Data

Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth at a chalkboard

Ethical algorithm design should guide technology regulation

Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth explore ways to mitigate possible biases and create a pathway toward greater fairness in AI and emerging technologies in their Brookings Policy Brief.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Gamble

Facebook, the world’s largest social network, with more than 2.4 billion monthly users, is developing a cryptocurrency that has the potential to reshape the global financial landscape. Kevin Werbach discusses how the tech giant's Libra project could change the way we bank⁠—if it ever becomes reality.

Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Resilience in Networked Systems

Research Identifies Changes in Neural Circuits Underlying Self-Control, Decision Making During Adolescent Brain Development

Researchers from the Lifespan Brain Institute and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, including Ted Satterthwaite, applied tools from network science to identify how anatomical connections in the brain develop to support neural activity in key areas.

Psychiatry

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Is Free Shipping Sustainable for Retailers?

Shoppers who ventured into stores on Black Friday, November 29, may have noticed significantly less frenzy than in previous years. Wharton’s Ron Berman spoke with Wharton Business Daily on Sirius XM about the impact of free shipping on retailers.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

The Next Legal Challenge: Getting Law Firms to Use Analytics

Wharton marketing professor Raghuram Iyengar, who is faculty director of Wharton Customer Analytics, recently spoke with Knowledge@Wharton about the challenges of getting lawyers to embrace analytics, and the benefits they stand to gain.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

Anita Allen receives honorary doctorate from the Netherlands’ University of Tilburg, speaks at The Hague

Anita Allen recently traveled to the Netherlands to receive an honorary doctorate degree, Doctor Honoris Causa, from the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands. Allen in an internationally respected expert on privacy laws and is widely recognized for her contributions to legal philosophy, women’s rights, and diversity in higher ed.

Law
Philosophy

Sampath Kannan named 2019 AAAS Fellow

Sampath Kannan is among a cohort of 443 distinguished scientists recognized with the honor from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Election as a Fellow of AAAS, the world’s largest scientific society, is an honor bestowed upon AAAS members by their peers.

Computer and Information Science

News

Is Streaming the Future of TV Programming?

Science Magazine’s favorite photos of 2019

How biology creates networks that are cheap, robust, and efficient

Ethical algorithm design should guide technology regulation

Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Gamble

Research Identifies Changes in Neural Circuits Underlying Self-Control, Decision Making During Adolescent Brain Development

Is Free Shipping Sustainable for Retailers?

The Next Legal Challenge: Getting Law Firms to Use Analytics

Anita Allen receives honorary doctorate from the Netherlands’ University of Tilburg, speaks at The Hague

Sampath Kannan named 2019 AAAS Fellow