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  • Democratizing IC Designs and Customized Computing
    Oct 14
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    Democratizing IC Designs and Customized Computing

    --> RSVP to this event   As we enter the era of customized computing, where customized domain-specific accelerators (DSAs) are used extensively for performance and energy efficiency. Ideally, we would like to enable every programmer should offload the compute-intensive portion of his/her program to one or a set of DSAs, either pre-implemented in ASICs or synthesized on demand on progr

  • From content moderation to school assignment: What do theories of justice teach us about design?
    Oct 17
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    From content moderation to school assignment: What do theories of justice teach us about design?

    --> RSVP to this event   Computational systems have a complex relationship with justice: they may be designed with the intent to promote justice, tasked to resolve injustices, or actively contribute to injustice itself. In this talk I will take two theories of justice, restorative and distributive justice, as frameworks to analyze and imagine alternatives to two real-world systems. Fi

  • Gutman Library Virtual Book Talk - Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders: Empowering Schools and Communities
    Oct 17
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    Gutman Library Virtual Book Talk - Entry Planning for Equity-Focused Leaders: Empowering Schools and Communities

    --> RSVP to this event   In this practitioner-focused and action-oriented work, Jennifer Perry Cheatham, Ed.D.'10, Rodney Thomas, and Adam Parrott-Sheffer, Ed.M.'09, Ed.L.D.'20, consolidate their extensive experience centering equity in leadership. They affirm that the entry of a new leader, or the pivot of an established one, affords an unparalleled opportunity to garner the insight,

  • Investing in the collective intelligence commons for sustainable and inclusive recovery
    Oct 18
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    Investing in the collective intelligence commons for sustainable and inclusive recovery

    --> RSVP to this event   We’re bringing together innovation experts to mark the launch of our new report on designing the collective intelligence commons. To achieve the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals and to accelerate our path to a green and just transition for a sustainable recovery, we have to mobilise both funding and our collective intelligence. The digital co

  • Growth Lab Development Talk: Gambling on Development / The Role of Local Elites in a Growth-based Future
    Oct 19
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    Growth Lab Development Talk: Gambling on Development / The Role of Local Elites in a Growth-based Future

    --> RSVP to this event   The Growth Lab's Development Talks is a series of conversations with policymakers and academics working in international development. The seminar provides a platform for practitioners and researchers to discuss both the practice of development and analytical work centered on policy. Prof. Dercon's latest book, Gambling on Development: Why some countries w

  • A Pale Blue Dot under Pressure: Climate Change, Justice, and Resilience in Our Rapidly Warming World
    Oct 21
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    A Pale Blue Dot under Pressure: Climate Change, Justice, and Resilience in Our Rapidly Warming World

    --> RSVP to this event   Climate change is one of the, if not the, most significant threats facing our planet today. It affects life on Earth in countless known, and many still unknown, ways—from atmospheric health to wellness; natural ecosystems to small businesses; global security to neighborhood food insecurity; and international policy to individual decision-making—while exacerbat

  • AI for Social Impact: Results from Deployments for Public Health and Conservation
    Oct 21
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    AI for Social Impact: Results from Deployments for Public Health and Conservation

    --> RSVP to this event   CID Speaker Series presents Milind Tambe, Principal Scientist and Director of AI for Social Good; Professor of Computer Science; and Director of Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University. He will discuss using artificial intelligence for social impact. With the maturing of artificial intelligence and multiagent systems research,

  • Bringing Negotiation Skills Trainings to Underserved Communities: Challenges and Successes with Melissa Reinberg of Negotiatl
    Oct 24
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    Bringing Negotiation Skills Trainings to Underserved Communities: Challenges and Successes with Melissa Reinberg of Negotiatl

    --> RSVP to this event   In this session, two negotiation experts discuss their experiences with programs that teach negotiation skills to individuals from underserved communities. Daniel leads a program in which Columbia MBA students teach formerly-incarcerated individuals. Melissa is the Founder and Executive Director of Negotiation Works, where she develops and leads negotiati

  • Engage 2022 - Princeton Innovation Center
    Nov 03
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    Engage 2022 - Princeton Innovation Center

    --> RSVP to this event    Princeton University's annual Engage conference builds connections among university researchers, government partners, accelerators, investors, industry partners, entrepreneurs and stakeholders to turn research into impact. Join us for this online conference on November 3, 2022. Admission is free and all are welcome. The Engage 2022 conference is organize

  • Tackling Environmental Challenges Globally and Locally: A Conversation with the Director of the UNEP, North America
    Nov 04
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    Tackling Environmental Challenges Globally and Locally: A Conversation with the Director of the UNEP, North America

    --> RSVP to this event   CID Speaker Series presents Dr. Barbara Hendrie, Director, North America UN Environment Programme (UNEP). Dr. Hendrie will discuss the role the UNEP plays within the UN system to address global environmental challenges, with a particular focus on plastic pollution. Plastic pollution is a growing threat and now widely recognized as a crisis on a par with c

  • Better Together Dialogue: Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools
    Nov 09
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    Better Together Dialogue: Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools

    --> RSVP to this event   Christopher D. E. Willoughby is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. In 2016, he completed his PhD in history at Tulane University. He is the author of Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools (University of North Carolina Press, 2022), and with Sean Morey Smith, he e

  • Nature as an Asset or Nature as a Subject of Rights: Which way for addressing the global biodiversity crisis?
    Nov 11
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    Nature as an Asset or Nature as a Subject of Rights: Which way for addressing the global biodiversity crisis?

    --> RSVP to this event In 2021 and 2022, two high-level academic reports concerning the way humanity should deal with the fate of biodiversity were published: 'The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review' and the IPBES 'Assessment on Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature'. The former conceptualises nature as an asset, while the latter acknowledges a wide diversity of ways of concei

  • Tech & Regulation Seminar: The Metaverse - Cool New Stuff, Even Worse Old Problems
    Nov 14
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    Tech & Regulation Seminar: The Metaverse - Cool New Stuff, Even Worse Old Problems

    --> RSVP to this event   Led by Tom Wheeler, former chairman, Federal Communications Commission, this hybrid event will focus on how the issues of privacy, data control, market control and information control only become worse in the metaverse. This is a HYRBID EVENT offered:* Online via webinar* In personPlease RSVP.  The general public is invited to join us in person in We

  • Launching Transformative Investment: A philosophy for financing systems change
    Nov 16
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    Launching Transformative Investment: A philosophy for financing systems change

    --> RSVP to this event How investors can become key change agents in accelerating the transition towards sustainability.  During this online event, we are presenting an Investment Philosophy that proposes a new approach for financing transformation and long-term system change. The philosophy strives to inspire and mobilise public and private investors to recognise and activate their r

  • Inclusive absolute well-being changes: An application with multidimensional cross-country analysis
    Nov 21
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    Inclusive absolute well-being changes: An application with multidimensional cross-country analysis

    --> RSVP to this event The world has continued to witness prosperity in terms of poverty reduction and well-being improvement, but one cannot overstate the importance of examining whether the improvement is evenly shared or is being inclusive to all. In this paper, we propose a general quantile-based approach based on absolute changes that allow assessing and robustly examining inclusivene

  • Keeping the (Decarbonized) Lights On: US Housing, Equity, and the Energy Transition
    Dec 02
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    Keeping the (Decarbonized) Lights On: US Housing, Equity, and the Energy Transition

    --> RSVP to this event   Because housing produces about one-fifth of the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonizing housing is a major focus of the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act and several other initiatives. In this talk, Carlos Martín, project director of the Center’s Remodeling Futures Program, will discuss the multiple–and often overlapping–approaches to decarboni

  • Rurality in Globalised Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives from International Doctoral Research Theses
    Dec 07

    Rurality in Globalised Higher Education: Comparative Perspectives from International Doctoral Research Theses

    --> RSVP to this event   The influence of rural vs urban contexts on education is a strong research theme (van Maarseveen, 2021; Zhang, 2017) but there is less research around rurality as a complex geopolitical, geosocial and cultural issue (Czerniewicz and Brown 2014). Rurality is not only a physical, geographical description; it intersects with other key cultural and socio-economic

  • What Magic Can Teach Us About Misinformation
    Jan 13
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    What Magic Can Teach Us About Misinformation

    --> RSVP to this event   This panel joins together the fields of medicine, magic, and ethics. We will explore how misinformation and disinformation about health is created and spread, and how expectation violation theory, a theory of communication that analyzes how individuals respond to unanticipated violations of social norms and expectations, can help to counteract these narratives

  • Leadership and Management: The Importance for Public Health Professionals
    Jan 23
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    Leadership and Management: The Importance for Public Health Professionals

    --> RSVP to this event   In the Monday ERC Seminar, Lou DiBerardinis, Director, Environment, Health and Safety at MIT and Instructor at HSPH, will discuss the difference between leadership and management, identify skills needed to be a successful leader, identify strategies for prioritizing work, and discuss the role of transformational leadership.  This is a preview of a continuing e

  • Center for Labor and a Just Economy: A New Dialogue on Worker Power Event Registration
    Jan 24

    Center for Labor and a Just Economy: A New Dialogue on Worker Power Event Registration

    --> RSVP to this event   Harvard Law School is excited to announce the launch of the Center for Labor and a Just Economy (CLJE), an evolution and growth of the Labor and Worklife Program that demonstrates our commitment to helping foster the future of worker power. Join us for a special discussion of the State of the Union and policies that can help build newfound power for worke

  • Evaluating the Role of the Paycheck Protection Program During COVID-19
    Jan 30
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    Evaluating the Role of the Paycheck Protection Program During COVID-19

    --> RSVP to this event   This hybrid event will be a panel discussion between R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean Emeritus and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University; and David Autor, Ford Professor and Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT Department of Economics. It will be moderated by M-RCBG Senior Fellow Aparna Mathur. Refreshments will be served for those j

  • Climate Change and Health: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
    Feb 10
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    Climate Change and Health: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

    --> RSVP to this event   As one of the largest economic sectors globally, health care represents nearly 10% of GDP spending across O.E.C.D. countries. This significant activity produces an estimated 5-10% of global greenhouse gases, presenting opportunities to directly reduce this impact through changes to energy supply, waste, purchasing, and care models. Equally important, health ca

  • Advancing Health Equity Through Research and Engagement
    Feb 16
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    Advancing Health Equity Through Research and Engagement

    --> RSVP to this event   This is Part of the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research's Talks at Twelve Series. Health equity is a widely touted but vexingly elusive goal. A significant body of academic research addresses research questions related to health equity, but the gap between research outputs and concrete social change is often yawning. How can academic research

  • How to Become a Media Magnet, an Online Public Speaking Workshop
    Feb 27
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    How to Become a Media Magnet, an Online Public Speaking Workshop

    --> RSVP to this event   She produced for Oprah and Anderson Cooper.  Emmy-nominated Rachel Hanfling will teach you how to get media attention and catapult your message to new heights. Speakers and Presenters Rachel Hanfling, Media & Communications Trainer Organizer Academic Deans´ Office

  • The Existential Crisis: Addressing Climate Change
    Feb 27
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    The Existential Crisis: Addressing Climate Change

    --> RSVP to this event   This winter, join the Graduate School of Business' Leadership for Society Program to explore People and Planet in the Information Era. Listen to conversations hosted by Prof. Brian Lowery with leaders from a variety of sectors on the immense opportunity and critical challenges for society presented by the rapid explosion of information in our world.  The

  • An Economic Argument for Public Health as a Public Good
    Mar 08

    An Economic Argument for Public Health as a Public Good

    --> RSVP to this event   The 2022 - 2023 Grand Rounds on the Future of Public Health speaker series will engage our community in conversations about public health as a public good. The country's COVID-19 response made clear the critical importance of rethinking the role of public health within our society. Reflecting on the deficiencies of the existing system, this year's focus will f

  • CHR: The Next 100 Years: Hospitality Workforce of Tomorrow
    Mar 08

    CHR: The Next 100 Years: Hospitality Workforce of Tomorrow

    --> RSVP to this event   With the integration of technology and shifting guest preferences, the hospitality industry is changing rapidly. In the next five years, it’s expected to change even more. The labor force is evolving as well. This webcast will explore what these changes mean for the hospitality industry’s workforce. A panel of faculty and industry experts will discuss the

  • Building Your Executive Presence, a Public Speaking Workshop
    Mar 22
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    Building Your Executive Presence, a Public Speaking Workshop

    --> RSVP to this event   Understand how executive presence shapes others' perceptions of our leadership ability, learn 5 key elements to develop your executive presence, and walk away with practical, customized tools to build your executive presence. Speakers and Presenters Alison Shapira, HKS Adjunct Lecturer, CEO and Founder, Global Public Speaking, LLC.

  • Pan American Climate Resilient Health Systems ; A Special Focus on Health Facilities: Assessing Risks and Opportunities for Adaptation and Resilience Building
    Apr 04
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    Pan American Climate Resilient Health Systems ; A Special Focus on Health Facilities: Assessing Risks and Opportunities for Adaptation and Resilience Building

    --> RSVP to this event   Health systems, including hospitals, are on the frontlines of climate change, bearing the costs of increasing disease burdens and more frequent extreme weather events while simultaneously inadvertently contributing to negative environmental and climate-related impacts. The goal of this course is to equip federal, regional and local health systems planners

  • Pan American Climate Resilient Health Systems
    Apr 04
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    Pan American Climate Resilient Health Systems

    --> RSVP to this event   Health systems, including hospitals, are on the frontlines of climate change, bearing the costs of increasing disease burdens and more frequent extreme weather events while simultaneously inadvertently contributing to negative environmental and climate-related impacts. The goal of this course is to equip federal, regional and local health systems planners

  • Gutman Library Book Talk - Equality or Equity: Toward a Model of Community-Responsive Education
    Apr 06
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    Gutman Library Book Talk - Equality or Equity: Toward a Model of Community-Responsive Education

    --> RSVP to this event   Equality or Equity sets forth a compelling argument urging us to shift our understanding of the role of our education system from providing equal opportunity to building an equitable society. This important book makes an urgent appeal for designing and implementing a truly equitable school system and shows us how we can begin to accomplish that goal. Spea

  • Next in Food Sustainability and Climate Change
    May 08

    Next in Food Sustainability and Climate Change

    --> RSVP to this event   The Next in Science series provides an opportunity for early-career scientists whose creative, cross-disciplinary, and cutting-edge research is thematically linked to introduce their work to non-specialists, fellow scientists, and one another. What does climate change mean for our food systems? How do our food production and consumption habits contribute

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    Jun 24
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