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Dr. Dipayan Ghosh, Co-Director of the Digital Platforms and Democracy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School Sep 16, 2020

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Are social media and search companies natural monopolies?, Increasing competition on the Internet, Machine bias in the commercialization of decision-making, Digital deceit, and precision propaganda, and Terms of Disservice: How Silicon Valley is Destructive by Design.

Dr. Dipayan Ghosh who is co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project at the Harvard Kennedy School and faculty at Harvard Law School. He is the author of Terms of Disservice: How Silicon Valley is Destructive by Design He previously led strategic efforts on privacy at Facebook and served as an economic advisor in the White House during the Obama administration.

Prof Joel Mokyr, Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University Sep 15, 2020

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Attitudes, Aptitudes, and the Roots of the Great Enrichment: How Attitudes (cultural beliefs) and aptitudes (technical competence) played central roles in the British Industrial Revolution and the origins of modern growth

Prof Joel Mokyr is a Professor of Economics and History at Northwestern University and a Professor of Economics at the University of Tel Aviv. He specializes in economic history and the economics of technological change and population change. His most recent book is A Culture of Growth. He has authored over 100 articles and books in his field.

Prof. Aaron Striegel, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Notre Dame Sep 14, 2020

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The Tesserae Project: Large-Scale, Longitudinal, In Situ, Multimodal Sensing of Information Workers, Face-to-Face Proximity Estimation Using Bluetooth On Smartphones, and the Interplay Between Individuals’ Evolving Interaction Patterns and Traits in Dynamic Multiplex Social Networks.

Prof. Aaron Striegel is a Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. Prof. Striegel’s research interests focus on instrumenting the wireless networked ecosystem to gain insight with respect to user behavior and optimizing network performance. Flagship projects of Prof. Striegel include the NetSense, NetHealth, and the Tesserae project involving the instrumentation and analysis of data from hundreds of smartphones and wearables over a nearly seven-year period of continuous data streaming.

Prof. Martin Eichenbaum, Professor of Economics at Northwestern University Sep 12, 2020

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Bridging the Covid-19 recession, Rethinking monetary and fiscal policy In an era Of low-Interest rates, Monetary policy effect on refinancing

Prof. Martin Eichenbaum is a professor of economics at Northwestern University and the co-director of the Center for International Economics and Development. His research focuses on macroeconomics, international economics, and monetary theory and policy. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a co-editor of the American Economic Review.

Prof. Peter Muennig, Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University Sep 11, 2020

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Is Medicaid worth the cost?, Universal health coverage in China, Precision population health management, Urbanicity, and hypertension, Earned Income Tax Credit and health effects, Psychological implications of the pandemic, and Health and economic consequences of emission standards

Prof. Peter Muennig is a Professor at Columbia University’s Department of Health Policy and Management. He uses Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) and other methods to study the social determinants of health from a health policy perspective. His work spans broad areas of non-medical health policy, linking RCTs with cost-effectiveness analyses to determine the best mix of social policies for optimizing population health.

Prof. Douglas Comer, Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University Sep 10, 2020

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The cloud: to come the full circle of computing, DcNet: A Data Center Network Architecture that supports live VM migration, and towards disaggregating the Software-defined networking (SDN) Control Plane.

Prof. Douglas Comer is a Professor of Computer Science at Purdue University. He was the chair of DARPA's Distributed Systems Architecture Board. Prof. Comer has written a series of best-selling technical books on the Internet and Computer Networks, Operating Systems, and Computer Architecture. He is also a member of the Internet Hall of Fame.

Prof. Jeremi Suri, Chair for Leadership at The University of Texas at Austin Sep 09, 2020

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The cost of victory in WWII, The fiction of American Century, Nixon and Brezhnev, Revisiting Roosevelt: How presidential empathy can improve politics, and Why the presidency is too big to succeed, and how it could be fixed.

Prof. Jeremi Suri is the Chair for Leadership in Global Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. He is a professor in the university's Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Prof. Suri is the author or editor of nine books on contemporary politics and foreign policy, most recently The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America’s Highest Office.

Prof. Burkhard Schafer, Chair of Computational Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh Sep 08, 2020

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Legal AI, creative informatics, and the quest for executable justice, A new approach to visualizing legal argumentation, Copyright and the law and ethics of machine co-production., Technology and the future of inheritance law.

Prof. Burkhard Schafer is the chair of Computational Legal Theory at the University of Edinburgh. His main field of interest is the interaction between law, science, and computer technology from comparative and legal-theoretical perspectives. His research encompasses both the problems that technology and technological change pose to the law – technology law – and the use of technology in the justice system and the legal services industry – legal informatics.

Prof. Norman Garrick, Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Connecticut Sep 06, 2020

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Traffic fatality rate: Why US is the worst among developed countries, Zurich: Where people are welcome and cars are not, The broken algorithm that poisoned American transportation, and Burying past planning mistakes in American cities.

Prof. Norman Garrick is a Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Connecticut. Dr. Garrick is also a former member of the national board of The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU). He specializes in the planning and design of urban transportation systems, including transit, streets, street networks, parking, bicycle, and pedestrian facilities. Dr. Garrick is the recipient of the Transportation Research Board’s Award for Best Research Paper in policy and organization and is a Fulbright Fellow.

Prof. Art Markman, Professor of Psychology, and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin Sep 05, 2020

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Impulsive choice-making, Probability matching decisions, Structural comparisons in consumer choice, Naturalistic and Lab-based decision-making, and Strategies for Economic Development Outside of Urban Corridors

Prof. Art Markman, who is a Professor of Psychology, Human Dimensions of Organizations, and Marketing at the University of Texas at Austin and Executive Director of the IC2 Institute. He has written over 150 scholarly papers on topics including reasoning, decision making, and motivation. He is the author of several books including Smart Thinking, Smart Change, Brain Briefs, and Bring Your Brain to Work.

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