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Jan 7, 2022

Johan Ugander: How misinformation spreads faster than truth

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

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Nov 30, 2021

How do you give voters a greater voice in their local governments?

Technology & Society Issue #127

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Oct 26, 2021

How do you beat fake news?

Technology & Society Issue #125

Graduate students at Stanford School of Engineering

Sep 30, 2021

“Graduate school is one of the most exciting times in life”

School News

Spheres in the Engineering quad

Sep 27, 2021

Stanford School of Engineering welcomes new faculty

School News

The surgical room in Israel where one of the kidney transplants took place. | Image courtesy of Itai Ashlagi

Aug 12, 2021

Engineers develop a new algorithm to aid kidney transplant exchanges

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society Issue #121

Lo is helping San Francisco create an algorithm to assign kids more fairly to public schools across economic and other boundaries. | Unsplash/Alex

Jul 16, 2021

Irene Lo: How math makes markets fairer

Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #121

Seeking a safer, fairer, and more just America. | Adobe Stock/Alex, Unsplash/Tingey Injury Law Firm, and Drea Sullivan

May 6, 2021

Data science takes on racial bias

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #116

Blood centers, struggling to maintain supplies in the face of physical distancing practices, hope Zika testing is reconsidered. | iStock/Motortion

Mar 2, 2021

Should the United States keep screening all blood donations for Zika?

Health, Technology & Society Issue #111

“Companies need innovation not only to reach the top, but to stay there.” | The Jopwell Collection

Feb 22, 2021

Riitta Katila: How diversity drives innovation

Technology & Society Issue #111

Widespread testing of incarcerated people who are asymptomatic is among the steps that could help end the outbreak. | Image by Adobe Stock/bibiphoto

Sep 23, 2020

Why prisons and jails have become COVID hotspots

Health Issue #102

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Jun 15, 2020

Michael O’Sullivan: Data leads New Zealand’s COVID-19 response

Health

Be creative. | Adobe Stock/Tatsiana

May 29, 2020

Tina Seelig: How constraint unleashes creativity

Issue #96

Persistent racial bias | Upsplash/Simba Munemo

May 5, 2020

Black drivers are less likely to be stopped by police after sunset

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

A new calculator provides county-by-county predictions of hospitalizations tied to the coronavirus. | Adobe Stock/ANDREW NORRIS

Apr 15, 2020

A new COVID-19 calculator is designed to help hospitals prepare

Health Issue #94

A big challenge is how to develop trust, collaboration and information-sharing among people who don't see each other in person. | Adobe Stock/Antonio Rodriguez

Apr 8, 2020

Companies scrambled to set up virtual workspaces. Is this the future?

Technology & Society Issue #92

What’s that? Speech recognition systems make twice the errors interpreting African Americans as they do interpreting whites. | Stocksy/Juan Moyano

Mar 25, 2020

Automated speech recognition systems often misinterpret black speakers

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

The challenge is to avoid false alarms without overlooking something harmful. | iStock/tarras79

Oct 29, 2019

Ross Shachter: Can AI improve mammography?

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Health Issue #81

Can the rapid proliferation of false information be stemmed? | Illustration by Sarah Rieke

Oct 9, 2019

How fake news spreads like a real virus

Technology & Society Issue #80

Garbage in, garbage out. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jul 16, 2019

A case study says data analysts face pressure to find ‘right’ answers

Technology & Society

A hint for identifying your superpower, what’s easy to you, but hard to others? | iStock/Mykyta Dolmatov

Jun 17, 2019

Wonder Woman can fly. Juliet Rothenberg can rapidly assimilate data.

Employers aren’t expecting perfection. They want candidates who are excited about the company’s mission. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jun 17, 2019

Think of a job interview as a mutual search for alignment

To build and support diverse teams, create a culture of open communication. | iStock/VictoriaBar

Jun 17, 2019

Build a team around diverse perspectives, not just familiar skills

Diffuse office politics by focusing on your ideas, projects and goals. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jun 17, 2019

Amid the swirl of office politics, it pays to stay grounded