CBI’s Biomanufacturing Group published “Modeling Framework to Evaluate Vaccine Strategies against the COVID-19 Pandemic” in the journal Systems as part of a special issue titled Systemic Thinking in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis. The paper provides a systems-level modeling framework to guide the development of analytical tools aimed at informing time-critical decisions to make vaccines globally…
Author: Jesse DeLaughter
Making data-informed Covid-19 testing plans
A new web-friendly modeling tool helps organizations build tailored Covid-19 testing strategies that can save money and reduce coronavirus spread.
NEWDIGS - Dynamic Dossier in the Cloud
Published on October 28th in Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science, this article from CBI NEWDIGS addresses inefficiencies in the system and process of data sharing among stakeholders in the development, access, and use of drug therapies. It applies a Systems Engineering approach within a case study to propose a scalable design for multi-stakeholder data sharing.…
MIT Connection Science Group: Reforming Global Trade, Finance, and Governance
MIT Connection Science, in collaboration with the World Leadership Alliance and the Boston Global Forum, is working to bring about a new paradigm in global trade, finance, and governance systems. With tools to securely collect, share, and analyze data, governments and communities can build better systems for health, monetary exchange, economic development, trade, and more. Global…
Prediction and prevention of disproportionally dominant agents in complex networks
A new publication from SSRC Research Affiliate Sandro Lera, MIT Prof. Sandy Pentland, and ETH Prof. Didier Sornette encourages regulators to take a holistic view to prevent and address outsized dominance within systems, concluding that “the emergence of disproportional dominance is not explained as the action of a single agent, but rather as a wholistic…
SSRC Welcomes Prof. Fotini Christia as New Director
“Fotini’s breadth as a social scientist, on-the-ground approach, use of data science and computational techniques, and application of novel methods to understand how societies are being shaped in diverse areas, made her a natural fit to lead SSRC into the next chapter,” says Daniel Huttenlocher, dean of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. “I’m delighted…
A New Social Contract for the AI Age
MIT Professors Sandy Pentland and Nazli Choucri joined global leaders at the AI World Society in September in developing the first ever social contract for the AI age. The effort is designed to foster positive social outcomes from the use of AI and to build an inclusive society across politics, government, economics, business and industry.
New Publication in Nature Offers Suggested Approach to Safely Reopening
A new article published August 5 in Nature Human Behaviour integrates anonymized real-time mobility data with census and demographic data to model COVID-19 transmission in the Boston area. The authors, including Esteban Moro, Visiting Professor in the Media Lab and IDSS, and Professor Sandy Pentland of MIT’s Connection Science Group, found that a period of…
Ali Jadbabaie named head of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Professor Jadbabaie has served as Department Head of SSRC since 2016, and is also Associate Director of IDSS.
Dynamic Networks Improve Remote Decision Making
Crisis events demand decision-making networks that are dynamic, not static, and respond to frequent feedback.