This issue is explained by a brief article in the MIT Technology Review, sent by classmate Jorge Cardona. It takes a look at how experts are predicting that blockchain will free data about the...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/how-blockchain-could-give-us-smarter.html
Classmate Wei Wang sends over the following short article , published in Ars Technica. The piece looks at how attackers have exploited a factorization weakness to steal identities. An excerpt...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/millions-of-high-security-crypto-keys.html
Classmate Nehal Mehta just forwarded on this piece , published by Alexis C. Madrigal in The Atlantic. It looks at how Facebook shaped the outcome of the last election -- and why that effect w...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/what-facebook-did-to-american-democracy.html
Classmate Jerry Woytash sends over the following article, "Google's $400 Million Bet Is Starting to Pay Off." It's an interesting look at Alphabet's initial steps to commercialize its A.I. rese...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/googles-400-million-bet-is-starting-to.html
Here's a look at A/B testing, sent over by classmate Rajiv Gupta. The article , published in the Harvard Business Review, looks at the benefits of running experiments on the cheap -- and ofte...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/the-surprising-power-of-online.html
Classmate Jerry Woytash provides this look at one of Amazon's next ventures, delivery service. "Amazon Is Testing Its Own Delivery Service to Rival FedEx and UPS," published in Bloomberg, ou...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/amazon-is-testing-its-own-delivery.html
Classmate Alan teGroen forwards a resource -- Princeton's CS department's cryptocurrency course . Alan says the following: > It's slightly technical, but if someone has any kind of�...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/going-deeper-into-cryptocurrency.html
Classmate Varit Sukhum sends along "Managing Our Hub Economy," published in the Harvard Business Review this month. It's a fascinating look at the winner-take-all question which we debated i...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/managing-our-hub-economy.html
Classmate Diego Grove sends over this article from the WSJ: "Amazon Takes Over the World." The content should be self-explanatory, but this paragraph, about the MBA experience, may resonate ...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/amazon-takes-over-world.html
Classmate Sumit Aggarwal sends over an informative article published in the July-August edition of the Harvard Business Review -- "Find the Platform in Your Product" . The title is fairly sel...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/finding-platform-in-your-product.html
Classmate Yifei Wu provides a thought-provoking new article from the MIT Technology Review, "Is AI Riding a One-Trick Pony?" . The piece is a rejoinder to some of the more optimistic takes o...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/is-ai-riding-one-trick-pony.html
Classmate Chin-Chia Liang has sent over an interesting look at health tech platforms , written by Martin Blinder, an entrepreneur in the space. The article examines how technology is altering o...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/how-health-tech-platforms-are.html
Classmate Sumit Aggarwal provides a couple good looks at blockchain, each from cryptocoinsnews. The first is about Japan's digital ID for banks , and the second concerns the Japanese government's...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/japans-foray-into-blockchain.html
Classmate Alan Yan has just sent an article from phys.org that answers the question you've always wanted to answer: what's the biggest prime number ever factored? Here are some more details on t...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/new-largest-number-factored-on-quantum.html
Classmate Torsten Walbaum has sent over a couple interesting links that focus on the universal basic income -- what merits it has and how it may be implemented. The first article is from For...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/good-words-on-ubi.html
Classmate Jorge Cardona has sent along the video below. It features the Last Week Tonight host's entertaining, totally-not-biased take on consolidation. Along with the video, Jorge asks the fol...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/john-olivers-take-on-corporate.html
Classmate Rachel Insoft recommends Simon Singh's book The Code Book as an introduction to the mathematics behind encryption. Also: classmate Prem Sharma has sent over the following video, rele...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/the-math-behind-encryption.html
Classmate Rachel Moore has gone above and beyond the call of duty, sending three articles on StitchFix, the new company using machine-learning to design clothes. Here's Quartz's version of ...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/the-netflix-of-fashion.html
Classmate Sumika Singh sent over this article , posted on Singularity Hub. Using the Ethereum blockchain, the UN is attempting to solve some of its most pressing challenges, from refugee resett...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/10/5-reasons-un-is-jumping-on-blockchain.html
Classmate Alan Yan provides the following article, "The Meaning of Decentralization," which was just posted on Medium. It's extensive but contains a lot of helpful sections; for example, her...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/09/defining-decentralization.html
Classmate Sumit Aggarwal has just sent this interesting look at Finland and how it's using blockchain technology to give refugees a modicum of financial independence. The article, "Finland has ...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/09/how-to-give-debit-cards-to-people.html
If you're still a little confused following our short lecture on blockchain, classmate Sean Lemke has sent along a helpful, brief video from the WSJ -- Bitcoin After Eight Years: More Virtua...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/09/bitcoin-eight-years-on.html
Classmate Jerry Woytash has sent over this recommended source for keeping up with all things Bitcoin and blockchain. Matt Levine, columnist for Bloomberg, publishes a running commentary on news r...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/09/keeping-up-with-blockchain-and-bitcoin.html
To supplement Professor Brynjolfsson's previous post, classmate Ahmed Bilal has just sent this quick look at Geoff Hinton, pioneer of AI development, who now expresses hesitations about his br...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/09/artificial-intelligence-pioneer-says-we.html
Geoffrey Hinton has made a number of breakthroughs in neural networks and also had a lot of students and advisees, like Yann LeCun , who made further advances. Although he's been working in th...
http://www.economicsofinformation.com/2017/09/last-week-and-i-had-privilege-of.html