Gig Economy Protections: Did the EU Get It Right?

According to Gad Allon, the gig economy requires regulation to ensure that there is enough competition in the market, not only on the customer side but also on the firm side or on the contractor side. In this podcast, he discusses the EU’s new rules protecting gig economy workers.

Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

Knowledge by the Slice: Observing the Invisible

At a Knowledge by the Slice lecture, part of a lunchtime series that offers topical talks by insightful faculty experts, Bhuvnesh Jain discussed what it means to pursue the mystery of dark matter and the use of some of the world’s largest telescopes to search for it.

Physics and Astronomy

Ubiquity of Data

Beyond Clicks: Getting the Most out of Big Data

In the deep ocean of big data, it’s hard for companies to know what’s true or even relevant to their operations. The latest research from Hamsa Bastani can help companies navigate the waters by offering a better way to use predictive analytics.

Operations Information and Decisions

Ubiquity of Data

Connecting The Dots

For many people, the Internet is a centerpiece of social and professional activity, but billions of people around the world still lack access to it. Christopher Yoo launched the 1 World Connected project to identify, analyze, and share innovative supply- and demand-side approaches to connecting new communities.

Law

Ubiquity of Data

Artificial intelligence won’t solve all of medicine’s great problems

"The truth is, there is a lot of promise in AI. But it might be time to temper our expectations. AI isn’t exactly new, and it won't be a silver bullet," says Jason Moore. Read more in his USA Today op-ed.

Biomedical Informatics

Social Norms for Algorithms

Black and white pictures of black cats walking through the road to the other side.

How superstitions spread

In a new analysis driven by game theory, Erol Akçay devised a model that shows how superstitious beliefs can become established in a society’s social norms. Akçay's work demonstrates how groups of individuals can evolve a coordinated set of behaviors that are enforced by a set of consistent social norms.

Biology

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Anita Allen elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Anita Allen, Vice Provost for Faculty, the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law, and Professor of Philosophy, was one of more than 200 honorees elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, recognized for excellence and accomplishments in their respective fields.

Law
Philosophy

Big Data in Dynamic Predictive Econometric Modeling

The work at the 2017 Warren Center co-sponsored conference on Big Data in Dynamic Predictive Econometric Modeling has led to a special issue of the Journal of Econometrics, currently in press. Read the introduction from author Francis Diebold.

Economics
Finance
Statistics

Ubiquity of Data

This physicist is trying to make sense of the brain’s tangled networks

A Ph.D. physicist and a MacArthur fellow by age 32, Danielle Bassett has pioneered the use of concepts from physics and math to describe the dynamic connections in the human brain. Read about her trajectory that catapulted her into a life of research in a largely uncharted scientific field now known as network neuroscience.

Bioengineering
Electrical and Systems Engineering

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Artist’s impression of Planet Nine, depicted as a dark sphere with the Milky Way in the background.

The search for Planet 9, 10, and beyond

Bhuvnesh Jain co-hosted a first-of-its-kind workshop by bringing together experts in planetary science and cosmology to develop a strategy for finding new planets and studying objects in the outer reaches of the solar system.

Physics and Astronomy

Ubiquity of Data

News

Gig Economy Protections: Did the EU Get It Right?

Knowledge by the Slice: Observing the Invisible

Beyond Clicks: Getting the Most out of Big Data

Connecting The Dots

Artificial intelligence won’t solve all of medicine’s great problems

How superstitions spread

Anita Allen elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Big Data in Dynamic Predictive Econometric Modeling

This physicist is trying to make sense of the brain’s tangled networks

The search for Planet 9, 10, and beyond