EFF Tells Patent Office: Don’t Cut the Public Out of Patent Review

EFF Tells Patent Office: Don’t Cut the Public Out of Patent Review

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EFF has submitted its formal comment to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) opposing a set of proposed rules that would sharply restrict the public’s ability to challenge wrongly granted patents. These rules would make inter partes review (IPR)—the main tool Congress created to fix improperly granted patents—unavailable in most of the situations where it’s needed most. If adopted, they would give patent trolls exactly what they want: a way to keep questionable patents alive and out […]

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COVID and the Craving for Certainty

COVID and the Craving for Certainty

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In March of 2020, I published an essay warning both the public and our policymakers against overreacting to the COVID threat. We overreact, I argued, in times of “epistemic uncertainty,” when we do not know enough about a threat we face and are unclear about our best response. Continue Reading…

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EDA in Public (Part 1): Cleaning and Exploring Sales Data with Pandas

EDA in Public (Part 1): Cleaning and Exploring Sales Data with Pandas

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Hey everyone! Welcome to the start of a major data journey that I’m calling “EDA in Public.” For those who know me, I believe the best way to learn anything is to tackle a real-world problem and share the entire messy process — including mistakes, victories, and everything in between. If you’ve been looking to level up […] The post EDA in Public (Part 1): Cleaning and Exploring Sales Data with Pandas appeared first on Towards Data Science.

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MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection

MIT researchers develop AI tool to improve flu vaccine strain selection

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Every year, global health experts are faced with a high-stakes decision: Which influenza strains should go into the next seasonal vaccine? The choice must be made months in advance, long before flu season even begins, and it can often feel like a race against the clock. If the selected strains match those that circulate, the vaccine will likely be highly effective. But if the prediction is off, protection can drop significantly, leading to (potentially preventable) illness and strain […]

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3 Questions: On biology and medicine’s “data revolution”

3 Questions: On biology and medicine’s “data revolution”

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Caroline Uhler is an Andrew (1956) and Erna Viterbi Professor of Engineering at MIT; a professor of electrical engineering and computer science in the Institute for Data, Science, and Society (IDSS); and director of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she is also a core institute and scientific leadership team member.  Uhler is interested in all the methods by which scientists can uncover causality in biological systems, ranging from causal discovery […]

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Fighting for the health of the planet with AI

Fighting for the health of the planet with AI

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For Priya Donti, childhood trips to India were more than an opportunity to visit extended family. The biennial journeys activated in her a motivation that continues to shape her research and her teaching. Contrasting her family home in Massachusetts, Donti — now the Silverman Family Career Development Professor in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and a principal investigator at the MIT Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems — was struck by the disparities […]

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Rage Against the Machine. Or Don’t.

Rage Against the Machine. Or Don’t.

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It’s unusual to be in the situation of reviewing a book no one will like. I don’t mean that literally; a handful of people will appreciate Paul Kingsnorth’s new book, Against the Machine, probably the same people who have followed his work for the past decade. Continue Reading…

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