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        <title><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia - Professor:Computer Science]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia is Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. His areas of expertise include artificial intelligence, theoretical computer science and algorithmic game theory.
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            <title><![CDATA[Contact Tracing Didn't Defeat Covid. Here's How It Could.]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Appealing to self-interest instead of relying on social obligation would provide incentives to cooperate that were missing early in the pandemic. There’s an app for that.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-01-28/contact-tracing-didn-t-defeat-covid-here-s-how-it-could</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Po-Shen Loh]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:30:12 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Nice try, Hong Kong.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Let’s Raffle Off Congressional Seats]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[New York lost its 27th Congress member after the latest U.S. census. A dose of randomness could have given it a fairer chance to hold on.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-05-05/post-census-raffle-would-make-congressional-reapportionment-fairer</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2021 12:30:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Give or take a few ...</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Conferences Work Better When Everyone Stays Home]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[I expected the coronavirus to ruin a scientific gathering earlier this month. Then I virtually showed up.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-07-21/coronavirus-scientific-conferences-work-better-online</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2020 16:00:03 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Come on in.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Science Won’t Ace Its Covid-19 Test]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In normal times, the decentralization of research works remarkably well. In a crisis, the usual process is inadequate.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-04-18/science-won-t-ace-its-coronavirus-test</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2020 12:00:29 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 09: A scientist examining cells in a 96-well plate. These plates allow scientists to look at lots of cells at the same time and directly compare cells that have or have not been treated with a drug, at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute on December 9, 2014 in Cambridge, England. Cancer Research UK is the world&apos;s leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research. Its vision is to bring forward the day when all cancers are cured. They have saved millions of lives by discovering new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer, and as such the survival rate in the UK has doubled in the last 40 years. Cancer Research UK funds over 4,000 scientists, doctors and nurses across the UK, more than 33,000 patients who join clinical trials each year and a further 40,000 volunteers that give their time to support the work. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images/Cancer Research UK)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Peer Review Is Science’s Wheel of Misfortune]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The system for evaluating the quality of research papers works little better than flipping coins. Budding scholars pay the price.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2020-01-29/peer-review-is-science-s-wheel-of-misfortune</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jan 2020 16:00:36 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Peerless.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘Frozen 2’ Gives Homeopathic Quackery a Warm Embrace]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Disney's film appears to support a debunked, but increasingly popular, form of alternative medicine.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-12-24/-frozen-2-embraces-homeopathic-quackery</link>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 10:30:51 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Drops of water ar falling from thawing icicles on the boards of lake Woerthsee near the Bavarian village of Inning, as sun slowly with temperatures remaining at the freezing point on March 22, 2018. - Meteorologists forecast warmer weather for the upcoming days in southern Germany. (Photo by CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP) (Photo credit should read CHRISTOF STACHE/AFP via Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Quantum Leap for Computing Is a Small Step for Computers]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Congratulate Google for an engineering breakthrough, but flashy milestones rarely herald technological revolutions.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-15/google-s-quantum-computing-leap-is-small-step-for-computers</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Going as fast as they can.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lotteries Instead of Elections? Not So Arbitrary]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Selecting government officials at random is an ancient idea. Imagine the possibilities.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-09-06/what-if-politicians-were-chosen-at-random-by-lottery</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Sep 2019 14:00:49 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>SAN LORENZO, CA - JANUARY 12: Lottery balls are seen in a box at Kavanagh Liquors on January 12, 2015 in San Lorenzo, California. Dozens of people lined up outside of Kavanagh Liquors, a store that has had several multi-million dollar winners, to -purchase Powerball tickets in hopes of winning the estimated record-breaking $1.5 billion dollar jackpot. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beware of Geeks Bearing AI Gifts]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A lot of what’s sold as artificial intelligence actually isn’t. Let’s be careful to reserve the term for the real thing.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-07-10/ai-hype-fools-a-lot-of-the-people-a-lot-of-the-time</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jul 2019 13:00:43 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Artificial? Definitely. Intelligent? Maybe.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[To Beat Gerrymandering, Do the Math]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Number crunchers can prove that election districts were engineered for partisan advantage, and can help craft fairer alternatives.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-05-21/supreme-court-can-beat-gerrymandering-by-doing-math</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 12:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Making redistricting great again.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dump ‘Statistical Significance,’ Then Teach Scientists Statistics]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Researchers need a new gold standard to assess their work. They also ought to stop indulging the fear of math.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-03-29/dump-statistical-significance-then-teach-scientists-statistics</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2019 12:00:14 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>What’s that you say?</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI Researchers Are Pushing Bias Out of Algorithms]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Practical ideas for ensuring that artificial intelligence is ethical and fair are gushing from inside the tech profession.]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-03-07/ai-researchers-are-pushing-bias-out-of-algorithms</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2019 12:30:15 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Not so scary. </media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tech Giants, Gorging on AI Professors Is Bad for You]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[If industry keeps hiring the cutting-edge scholars, who will train the next generation of innovators in artificial intelligence?]]></description>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2019-01-07/tech-giants-gorging-on-ai-professors-is-bad-for-you</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Ariel Procaccia]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2019 11:00:21 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Eat too much and there won’t be grass for anyone.</media:description>
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