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MIT Connection Science News
May 11, 2020

Events:

The MIT Connection Science Sponsors' Meeting was held April 30- May 1, 2020.  Slides, videos and, papers are available.

New Research:

• New Book! "Building the New Economy" Edited by Alex Pentland, Alexander Lipton, and Thomas Hardjono. 
• "COVID-19 Outbreak Week-by-Week Prediction", Dr. Yaniv Altshuler and Prof. Sandy Pentland.
• "Reconnecting Society and Reopening the Economy" Irving Wladawsky-Berger.
• "Modeling the impact of social distancing, testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second-wave scenarios of the COVID-19 epidemic", Alberto Aleta, et al.

New Fun Stuff:

• Meet the Ganimals, Ziv Epstein

People:

• Dr. Morgan Frank ('19) will join the faculty at University of Pittsburgh
• Dr. Yan Yeng ('20) will join the faculty at University of Texas, Austin
• Lucas Novak, Christie Hong, and Srijith Poduval completed Master's degrees with Connection Science.  Congrats to our class of 2020!!

Press:

• CPO Magazine: "MIT Floats Health Certifications, Digital Identity Tracking to Open up Economies; How Feasible Are These Ideas?"
• TechRepublic: "MIT professor makes the case for certifying a person's immune health status via a protected digital identity."