Machine learning (ML) is being deployed to a vast array of real-world applications with profound impacts on society. ML can have positive impacts, such as aiding in the discovery of new cures for diseases and improving government transparency and efficiency. But it can also be harmful: reinforcing authoritarian regimes, scaling…
Joseph Bahout and Salam Fayyad will discuss the domestic implications for Lebanon of the regional rehabilitation of Assad’s Syria, and the Saudi-Iranian rapprochement.
Tuesday, April 18 | 4:00PM Beirut Time
This is an online event via zoom. Please register to attend.
Professor Patrick Devine-Wright’s expertise spans human geography and environmental psychology with a primary interest in the social acceptance of energy infrastructures, community engagement and place attachment. He is Director of the ESRC-funded ACCESS (Advancing Capacity for Climate and Environment Social Science) leadership…
In this talk, Prof. Plan will present forthcoming work from two projects with an emphasis on their theoretical and methodological grounding probing connections between health and time.
Suman Bery is currently Vice Chairperson of India’s NITI Aayog – the National Institute for Transforming India, in the rank and status of a Cabinet Minister. NITI Aayog is the apex public policy think tank of the Government of India (GOI), tasked with catalyzing economic development through knowledge, innovation and cooperative…
How can moments with potential for transformational change be recognized and acted upon? What can be learned from the dramatic change in efforts to loosen the grip of organized crime on public institutions in America in the 1960s, the reform of the Teamsters Union in the 1970s-1990s, and the current battle against corruption in…
