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Back to SearchGreg Beroza: Data helps prepare us for ‘The Big One’
Earthquakes come in species, says Greg Beroza, professor of geophysics at Stanford and an expert in seismology.
There are, of course, the well-known …
7 years, 11 months ago
Anne Kiremidjian: Cities built to endure disaster
Like clockwork, every time a large natural disaster hits and wipes out billions in built infrastructure, public officials, developers and private cit…
7 years, 11 months ago
Annelise Barron: The battle against Alzheimer’s is reinvigorated
While Alzheimer’s disease has cut short too many lives and devastated more families than can be counted, its root causes and effective treatments hav…
8 years ago
Marshall Burke: The impact of climate change on human behavior
While climate change is likely to bring rising sea levels, more frequent and stronger storms, as well as vanishing glaciers and coral reefs, experts …
8 years, 1 month ago
Riana Pfefferkorn: How are the boundaries of digital privacy shifting?
Riana Pfefferkorn is a digital security expert and Cryptography Fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society. She says that we are living i…
8 years, 1 month ago
David Magnus: How will artificial intelligence impact medical ethics?
Professor David Magnus, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics, says that artificial intelligence and machine learning are reshaping t…
8 years, 1 month ago
Balaji Prabhakar: Can digital incentives help alleviate traffic?
While well-known mapping apps have transformed the daily commute through better information, Stanford electrical engineer Balaji Prabhakar is explori…
8 years, 1 month ago
Dan Boneh: Still in early days, Blockchain is rich with possibility
While cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum gather the lion’s share of headlines, few know that these “killer apps” are just the first generation of …
8 years, 3 months ago
Gopi Shah Goda: You’re probably not saving enough for retirement
Am I saving enough for retirement? Will I outlive my money? Can I count on Social Security?
These are but a few of the nagging questions most every A…
8 years, 3 months ago
Sarah Billington: How we shape our buildings — and how they shape us
Sarah Billington began her career in civil engineering studying concrete, a remarkable material that has literally shaped the world as we know it.
Co…
8 years, 3 months ago