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Bots, biases, and binge watching: How AI shapes the modern world

Penn Today produced a three-part series and podcast on artificial intelligence, with expertise from Warren Center affiliates in the School of Arts and Sciences, the Perelman School of Medicine, the Wharton School, Penn Law, and the School of Engineering and Applied Science.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Electrical and Systems Engineering
Law

Social Norms for Algorithms

Curbing Climate Change: 30 Solutions That Could Make an Impact

Penn Law's Cary Coglianese discuss the solutions offered by a new Penn-wide report on climate change that attempts to boil many challenges down to just 30 “policy-relevant and solution-oriented” proposals that can be applied at the local, state and national levels.

Law
Political Science

Ubiquity of Data

The Customer Centricity Playbook Wins Best Business Book Award

The Customer Centricity Playbook, the innovative guide from authors Peter Fader and Sarah Toms for companies to revolutionize the way they think about their customers, has been named a winner of a 2019 Digital Book Award.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

Gutmann and Moreno talk bioethics, health care in new book

The University’s president, a political philosopher, teamed up with a Penn Integrates Knowledge professor Jonathan Moreno to write “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die,” which hit the shelves at the end of August.

History and Sociology of Science
Medical Ethics and Health Policy
Philosophy

Ubiquity of Data

A molecular ‘atlas’ of animal development

In a new paper, Junhyong Kim and collaborators report the first detailed molecular characterization of how every cell changes during animal embryonic development. The work used the latest technology in the emergent field of single cell biology to profile more than 80,000 cells in the embryo of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.

Biology

Ubiquity of Data

Tom Baker awarded major grant in support of research

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) awarded a grant to Tom Baker and Allison Hoffman in support of their work to organize the 2020 Health Insurance Exchange Conference, “Ten Years After the ACA: Imagining Health Insurance Futures.” The RWJF is the United States’ largest philanthropic organization dedicated solely to health.

Law

Polarization can happen even when rational people listen to each other

Using computer models, Daniel J. Singer and colleagues found that divides over factual issues can stem from humans’ limited memory capacity rather than from one side or the other being irrational.

Philosophy

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Warren Center Affiliate Profile- Duncan Watts

What happens when groups of people interact and how does the structure of those interactions lead to better or worse collective outcomes? This fundamental question has driven Duncan Watts’ work from the time he was a PhD student at Cornell to his current position as a Penn PIK Professor.

Communication
Computer and Information Science
Operations Information and Decisions

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Penn Engineering Announces Four New Scholarly Chairs

Danielle Bassett has been named the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering. The Professorship was established to honor J. Peter “Pete” Skirkanich, an alumnus, trustee and member of the School of Engineering Board of Overseers who also served as co-chair of Engineering’s “Making History through Innovation” capital campaign.

Bioengineering

Is Data Privacy Real? Don’t Bet on It

People generate millions of points of information about themselves all the time. You create data every time you push the ‘Like’ button on Facebook, search for something on Google, make a purchase on Amazon, or watch a show on Netflix. Kevin Werbach, Aaron Roth, & Michael Kearns discuss data privacy in the U.S.--- or the lack thereof.

Computer and Information Science
Legal Studies & Business Ethics

Social Norms for Algorithms

News

Bots, biases, and binge watching: How AI shapes the modern world

Curbing Climate Change: 30 Solutions That Could Make an Impact

The Customer Centricity Playbook Wins Best Business Book Award

Gutmann and Moreno talk bioethics, health care in new book

A molecular ‘atlas’ of animal development

Tom Baker awarded major grant in support of research

Polarization can happen even when rational people listen to each other

Warren Center Affiliate Profile- Duncan Watts

Penn Engineering Announces Four New Scholarly Chairs

Is Data Privacy Real? Don’t Bet on It