#AcademicRunPlaylist - 3/27/24

It got a bit warmer today, and luckily I was able to get out for a short run with talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist!

First was an interesting talk by Moses Boudourides on the temporal hypergraph of Andy Warhol's diaries (!) at the SONIC Research Group https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtZhzoA8B0E

Next was a thought-provoking talk by Susan Watson on the distinction between companies, firms, and natural persons at the Cambridge Faculty of Law https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2X7gOfclF4

Next was a fantastic talk by Doyne Farmer on the importance of economic complexity approaches for moving the field of economics forward at the Oxford Martin School. Farmer provides solid grounding in mainstream economic approaches, their failures, and the solutions that complexity economics offers. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd_GT73xwRc

Next was an insightful talk by Rupy Sawhney on the need to focus on work reliability rather than efficiency at the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad. Sawhney lays out the importance of understanding how cultural biases can push people to foist meaningless work on employees, increasing their stress and reducing the productivity of the firm. Next he moves to understanding workflows, and the critical role that variance plays in system-level outcomes. He combines that in a model to demonstrate the immense effects of these factors in total. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k5P6FriCjY

Next was an excellent panel on trademark registration in the US and EU at the New York University School of Law with Barton Beebe, Jeanne Fromer, Joe Ferretti, Meryl Hershkowitz, Gordon Humphreys, and João Negrão https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmGsvNUDWIY

Next was an informative talk by Jeanna Matthews on the NIST AI risk management framework at the Institute for Experiential AI at Northeastern University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Y-O1n55ww

Next was a nice talk by George Foster and Bárbara Gómez-Aguiñaga on the state of Latino entrepreneurship at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business https://www.youtube.com/live/uc-3ykOvV0E?si=4cB2LStU_L8rKhH5&t=2742

Next was an incredible talk by Barbara Prainsack on the importance of data solidarity for governing AI at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics. Prainsack gives a sweeping, compelling account of the need for ethical governance of AI, why individual level control of data isn't effective, and how to build effective regulatory regimes that are informed by a deep understanding of the people's interests and stakes. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/live/mipLpf6OoBw?si=0Tr5umi9oHQqNQJN&t=378

Last was a moving symposium on the We Rise Nanny Training program at the Cornell University ILR School with Zoë West, Ketchel Carey, Allison Julien, Sulekha Frank, Doris Tapia, and Arianna Schindle. The effects of this program are impressive, and the combination of job skills and worker organizing training was particularly innovative. Beyond that, hearing the qualitative impact of this program drove home the importance of programs like these. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VonO_oDkClM