MIT Connection Science News
April 6, 2020
New Research
- ”Effect of social distancing measures in the New York City metropolitan area“, Michiel Bakker , Alex Berke , Matt Groh , Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland , and Esteban Moro
- “Effectiveness of social distancing strategies for protecting a community from a pandemic with a data-driven contact network based on census and real-world mobility data,” David Martín-Calvo, Alberto Aleta, Alex Pentland, Yamir Moreno, Esteban Moro
- “Social Contract 2020: An MIT Connection Science Perspective,” Alex Pentland
New Video Demos
- “Segregation and Polarization in Urban Areas“, Alfredo Morales [paper]
- “Understanding and Reducing the Spread of Misinformation Online“, Ziv Epstein [paper]
Press
- Forbes, “Rebooting the Global Economy“
- NBC Chicago, “Privacy in a Pandemic: What Experts Want you to Know“.