MIT Connection Science News, October 9, 2020

New Research:

• “Computational social science: Obstacles and opportunities“, David M. J. Lazer, Alex Pentland, et al., Science.
• “Modelling the impact of testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second waves of COVID-19“, Prof. Alex Pentland, Prof Esteban Moro, et al. Nature Human Behavior.
• “Looking for a better future: modeling migrant mobility“, Isabella Loaiza Saa, Matej Novak, Alfredo J. Morales and Alex Pentland, Applied Network Science.
• “Prediction & Prevention of Disproportionally Dominant Agents“, Sandro Lera, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, Didier Sornette, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science

New Videos:

• “What Does Connection Science Do?”, Interview with Prof Alex “Sandy” Pentland
• “Computation and the Future”, Panel discussion with Prof Alex “Sandy” Pentland.

New Press:

• MIT News, “Modeling the impact of testing, tracing, and quarantine“.
• The Innovator, “How To Get Better Data Insights And Compete With Google“
• ZDNet, “People’s notions about AI are terrible, an MIT study asks whether they can be helped“

New Events:

• MIT Mobility Forum; Fridays 12:00 – 1:00 PM (Boston) starting September 11 [Please register here for the zoom info]
• The Data Conference, November 6th 10 am – 4 PM (UK)
• Building the New Economy: Trusted Data, AI, and Risk Management, November 3, 2020 9-10 am (Boston)