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.“
