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Social media fuels spread of COVID-19 information – and misinformation

John C. Malone Professor Mark Dredze discusses how social media can help combat—or contribute to—the spread of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic

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Malone researchers publish socioeconomic dataset for predictive modeling of COVID-19

Mathias Unberath, assistant research professor in the Malone Center, and team have published an open-source, machine readable dataset related to socioeconomic...

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Ilya Shpitser receives NSF CAREER Award

The five-year CAREER award will support his project, “Robust Causal and Statistical Inference in High Dimensional Structured Systems with Hidden Variables.”

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Course urges caution about causation

Malone Center graduate students teach Intersession course "Should Susan Smoke? An Introduction to Causal Inference," where each week students pore over case studies to sharpen their reasoning skills.

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The future of machine learning in healthcare

Suchi Saria and fellow researchers provide a roadmap to accelerate safe, ethically responsible applications of machine learning in healthcare in recent paper published in Nature Medicine.

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Safety First: Building a Resilient Future

Of all the remarkable things engineers do for humanity, none may be more important than the ways in which they improve...