Can Barnes & Noble Survive?

Barnes & Noble once played the role of disruptor, leading to the demise of many an independent bookseller. But now the big box book chain is considered a dinosaur, struggling to survive in a rapidly changing retail landscape. Peter Fader discusses what the future holds for the company.

Marketing

Ubiquity of Data

Erdős-Rényi Prize for Danielle Bassett

Danielle Bassett has been named the 2018 recipient of the Erdős-Rényi Prize in Network Science by the Network Science Society (NetSci) for fundamental contributions to our understanding of the network architecture of the human brain, its evolution over learning and development, and its alteration in neurological disease.

Bioengineering

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

The Warren Center welcomes its newest affiliate, Maria Cuellar

Assistant Professor Maria Cuellar's work is driven by interdisciplinary projects in which I use statistics and data science to study problems in public policy, public health, and forensic science.

Criminology

Ubiquity of Data

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change

Drawing on more than a decade of experimental work, Damon Centola has developed an online method to test how large scale social dynamics can be changed. He believes environments can be engineered to push people in pro-social directions, and suggests that this work has direct implications for political activism on the Internet.

Communication

Consensus and Contagion in Society

Machine Learning Researchers Try to Improve Working Conditions for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Workers

As a way of giving back to the platform he uses for research, Chris Callison-Burch developed a Google Chrome plug-in that helps Turk workers pick out better-paying tasks. Callison-Burch and collaborators also analyzed data they gathered from the plug-in’s users to reveal trends in Turk worker earnings, published in a recent paper.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Mathematical model explains why metastasis can occur even when cancer is caught early

In a new study, researchers have crafted a mathematical model to understand the dynamics at play as cancerous tumors grow and spread. Setting their model into action, Jimmy Qian and Erol Akçay were able to explain that mutations that lead to metastasis often arise early in a tumor history.

Biology

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

Alejandro Ribeiro: Expanding Applications of Network Science

As an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering, Alejandro Ribeiro uses complex mathematical frameworks to understand how networks behave. Instead of looking at individual points in that network, he examines what’s going on between those points.

Electrical and Systems Engineering

Resilience in Networked Systems

The American Law Institute Approves Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance

Tom Baker has been a project Reporter on the Restatement of the Law of Liability Insurance for the American Law Institute since 2010. This week, members at the 2018 Annual Meeting voted to approve Restatement of the Law Liability Insurance.

Law

Ubiquity of Data

G.D.P.R., a New Privacy Law, Makes Europe World’s Leading Tech Watchdog

“The E.U. is more advanced than the U.S. in protecting consumer privacy, and what happens there could be a harbinger of the future,” said Warren Center Director Michael Kearns in a New York Times article.

Computer and Information Science

Social Norms for Algorithms

Curious Minds: from building knowledge networks to inciting political resistance

What is curiosity? How does it work? And where does its seemingly limitless power to shape the mind and reshape society come from? Drawing on emerging work in cognitive neuroscience and network theory, Dani Bassett discusses enacting a practice of curiosity with a flexible brain.

Bioengineering

Evolution, Emergence and the Brain

News

Can Barnes & Noble Survive?

Erdős-Rényi Prize for Danielle Bassett

The Warren Center welcomes its newest affiliate, Maria Cuellar

Research Finds Tipping Point for Large-scale Social Change

Machine Learning Researchers Try to Improve Working Conditions for Amazon’s Mechanical Turk Workers

Mathematical model explains why metastasis can occur even when cancer is caught early

Alejandro Ribeiro: Expanding Applications of Network Science

The American Law Institute Approves Restatement of the Law, Liability Insurance

G.D.P.R., a New Privacy Law, Makes Europe World’s Leading Tech Watchdog

Curious Minds: from building knowledge networks to inciting political resistance