Management Science and Engineering

Blood centers, struggling to maintain supplies in the face of physical distancing practices, hope Zika testing is reconsidered. | iStock/Motortion

Mar 2, 2021

Should the United States keep screening all blood donations for Zika?

Health, Technology & Society Issue #111

“Companies need innovation not only to reach the top, but to stay there.” | The Jopwell Collection

Feb 22, 2021

Riitta Katila: How diversity drives innovation

Technology & Society Issue #111

Widespread testing of incarcerated people who are asymptomatic is among the steps that could help end the outbreak. | Image by Adobe Stock/bibiphoto

Sep 23, 2020

Why prisons and jails have become COVID hotspots

Health Issue #102

Success story | Adobe Stock/Lev

Jun 15, 2020

Michael O’Sullivan: Data leads New Zealand’s COVID-19 response

Health

Be creative. | Adobe Stock/Tatsiana

May 29, 2020

Tina Seelig: How constraint unleashes creativity

Issue #96

Persistent racial bias | Upsplash/Simba Munemo

May 5, 2020

Black drivers are less likely to be stopped by police after sunset

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

A new calculator provides county-by-county predictions of hospitalizations tied to the coronavirus. | Adobe Stock/ANDREW NORRIS

Apr 15, 2020

A new COVID-19 calculator is designed to help hospitals prepare

Health Issue #94

A big challenge is how to develop trust, collaboration and information-sharing among people who don't see each other in person. | Adobe Stock/Antonio Rodriguez

Apr 8, 2020

Companies scrambled to set up virtual workspaces. Is this the future?

Technology & Society Issue #92

What’s that? Speech recognition systems make twice the errors interpreting African Americans as they do interpreting whites. | Stocksy/Juan Moyano

Mar 25, 2020

Automated speech recognition systems often misinterpret black speakers

Computation & Data, Technology & Society

The challenge is to avoid false alarms without overlooking something harmful. | iStock/tarras79

Oct 29, 2019

Ross Shachter: Can AI improve mammography?

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Health Issue #81

Can the rapid proliferation of false information be stemmed? | Illustration by Sarah Rieke

Oct 9, 2019

How fake news spreads like a real virus

Technology & Society Issue #80

Garbage in, garbage out. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jul 16, 2019

A case study says data analysts face pressure to find ‘right’ answers

Technology & Society

You can’t do it all, no matter what our crazed culture tells you. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jun 17, 2019

Say “no” so you can say “yes”

Issue #74

A hint for identifying your superpower, what’s easy to you, but hard to others? | iStock/Mykyta Dolmatov

Jun 17, 2019

Wonder Woman can fly. Juliet Rothenberg can rapidly assimilate data.

Employers aren’t expecting perfection. They want candidates who are excited about the company’s mission. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jun 17, 2019

Think of a job interview as a mutual search for alignment

To build and support diverse teams, create a culture of open communication. | iStock/VictoriaBar

Jun 17, 2019

Build a team around diverse perspectives, not just familiar skills

Diffuse office politics by focusing on your ideas, projects and goals. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jun 17, 2019

Amid the swirl of office politics, it pays to stay grounded

Seek mentors who are a few steps ahead of you in their career. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jun 17, 2019

Broaden your idea of who can be a mentor

Figure out how you can solve other people’s problems while also solving your own. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jun 17, 2019

Make negotiations work for both sides

Researchers are using machine learning systems to help ensure that women get early, accurate breast cancer diagnoses. | iStock/Dániel Balogh

Jun 3, 2019

AI could help radiologists interpret mammograms more accurately

Health Issue #73

A decision maker might think they are evaluating just the data and making decisions free from bias, but is this always true? | Reuters/Mike Segar

Jun 3, 2019

Sharad Goel: How hidden bias affects the criminal justice system

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #74

Models combine health and economic information to try to understand the costs of disease. | Stocksy/Jeff Wasserman, Illustration by Kevin Craft

May 6, 2019

Margaret Brandeau: A new way of looking at a public health emergency

Computation & Data, Health, Technology & Society Issue #71

A new generation of risk assessment tools could make bail decisions more equitable. | Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl, Unsplash/Markus Spiske, Drea Sullivan

Mar 19, 2019

Can AI help judges make the bail system fairer and safer?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #70

Are there better or worse ways to deal with the black markets for heroin, prostitution, etc.? | iStock/RichVintage

Jan 23, 2019

Repugnant markets spur thinking about how to engineer complex systems

Technology & Society