IDSS Distinguished Seminar Series: Latanya Sweeney (Harvard University)
MIT Building 32, Room 141 The Stata Center (32-141), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow Technology Design will Dictate Our Civic Future
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Networking for Big Data: Theory and Optimization for NDN
MIT Building 32, Room 141 The Stata Center (32-141), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe advent of Big Data is stimulating the development of new networking architectures which facilitate the acquisition, transmission, storage, and computation of data. In particular, Named Data Networking (NDN) is an emerging content-centric networking architecture which focuses on enabling end users to obtain the data they want, rather than to communicate with specific nodes. By…
LIDS Seminar Series: Edmund Yeh (Northeastern University)
MIT Building 32, Room 141 The Stata Center (32-141), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFast and Slow Learning from Reviews
MIT Building 32, Room 141 The Stata Center (32-141), 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Daron Acemoglu (MIT) Many online platforms present summaries of reviews by previous users. Even though such reviews could be useful, previous users leaving reviews are typically a selected sample of those who have purchased the good in question, and may consequently have a biased assessment. In this paper, we construct a simple model of…