Dear Sponsors and Colleagues,
As a result of travel and other restrictions in place, we will be holding our spring 2020 sponsors’ conference completely on line.
Please register to attend and your ticket to the event will include the link to the Zoom connection.
In order to make this conference easier to attend for our global community, it will be held over two days, from 8:00 AM – 11:00 AM Eastern US time, on April 30 and May 1, 2020.
We have made brief videos of each session on the agenda, and included papers as well.
The idea is to watch the videos and read the papers in advance of each session so that we can focus the “live” portion of the event on interaction.
Kind regards,
Prof. Alex “Sandy” Pentland
MIT Connection Science Sponsors’ Meeting
April 30, 2020 8:00 AM — 11:00 AM EDT
May 1, 2020 8:00 AM — 11:00 AM EDT
April 30, 2020
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM: “Virtual Coffee”, get your Zoom connection working, say hello.
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Welcome and Overview, Prof. Alex “Sandy” Pentland
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Swisscom: Topic 1: “From Tether to Libra: Stablecoins, Digital Currency and the Future of Money” [paper] and, Topic 2: “Confidential Computing for Privacy-Preserving Contact Tracing” [paper]
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Yan Leng, “How social influence spreads over networks” [slides]
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Mohsen Bahrami, “Economic Outcomes Predicted By Diversity in Cities” [Slides]
10:30 – 11:00 AM: Prof. Burcin Bozkaya and Prof. Vinicius Brei, Video: “Gravitational Forecasting Reconcilliation: Prediction without historical data” [Slides]
11:00 AM: Adjourn
Friday May 1, 2020
8:00 AM – 8:30 AM: “Virtual Coffee”, get your Zoom connection working, say hello.
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM: Welcome and Overview, Prof. Alex “Sandy” Pentland
9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Prof. Esteban Moro, “Segregated behavior in American cities“
9:30 AM – 10:00 AM: Dazza Greenwood and Bryan Wilson, “MIT Computational Law Report and Contact Tracing Privacy Principles” [Paper]
10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Morgan Frank, “The Universal Resiliance of Labor Markets” [Slides] [Paper]
10:30 – 11:00 AM: Ziv Epstein, “Understanding and Reducing the Spread of Misinformation Online“, Ziv Epstein [paper]
11:00 AM: Adjourn
