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March 2024
Seminar: Johan Chu on AI and Durable Dominance in Markets
The Knight Science Journalism program at is excited to welcome Dr. Johan Chu of the Sloan School of Management at MIT. The Internet and now AI drastically lower the barriers to entry to markets. Within a few months, for example, you may be able to create cinema-quality video without actors, cameras, or access to physical locations. You can already distribute videos globally at minimal cost. How does this affect dominant incumbents? I argue—based on simulation models and empirical evidence from…
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Seminar: Eden Medina on How to Design a Revolution
The Knight Science Journalism program at MIT is excited to welcome Dr. Eden Medina for a seminar on the history of revolution, technology, and design in Chile in the 1970s. After an electoral victory in Chile, the socialist government led by Salvador Allende and his governing coalition, Unidad Popular, embarked on a mission to bring about a socialist revolution through existing democratic institutions to address the most pressing needs of the Chilean people. The result was an unprecedented alliance of…
Find out more »Seminar: Kim-Vy Tran on How to Explain General Relativity with Wineglasses and other Astronomer Party Tricks
The Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT is excited welcome Dr. Kim-Vy Tran of Harvard University. Gravitational lensing is a direct consequence of General Relativity. The bending of light by massive objects has matured into a powerful cosmic tool for exploring a wide range of astrophysical phenomena such as measuring how quickly the universe is expanding to finding the earliest galaxies and stars. But how do you explain a rather abstract concept in a way that captures the imagination of…
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