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Tepper Reads 2020 Podcast #8
Tepper Reads - April 02, 2020 15:00 - 21 minutesIn our final podcast of the Tepper Reads 2020 project, SHIFT co-managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, Matthew Stewart and Michelle Stoner, talk about reading like a writer, the collision of everyday experiences and the dramatic, magical realism lite, aging ourselves, showing vs. telling,...
Season 2 Trailer | COVID-19
Consequential - April 01, 2020 17:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn light of recent developments related to COVID-19, we have decided to push back our second season to focus instead on what we can learn from the coronavirus in terms of technology and society. In our mini-season, we will cover the use of large-scale public health data, remote education, and t...
Update: Season 2 & Coronavirus Miniseason
Consequential - April 01, 2020 17:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIn light of recent developments related to COVID-19, we have decided to push back our second season to focus instead on what we can learn from the coronavirus in terms of technology and society. In our mini-season, we will cover the use of large-scale public health data, remote education, and t...
Tepper Reads 2020 Podcast #7
Tepper Reads - March 19, 2020 19:57 - 13 minutesJarred Lazear, Leadership Coach in the Accelerate Leadership Center, talks about the "inside-out" approach to coaching, how both coaching and reading helps to grow our individual worlds, context dependent memory (and how Pittsburghers love it), how everyone is fighting a battle, always, and what...
The Interdisciplinary Art of Precision Medicine with Dr. Philip Empey
Heinz Radio - March 18, 2020 12:51 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsMost of us have heard about precision medicine, but do we know how this patient-centered care actually works? This week, we’re sharing our interview with Dr. Philip Empey, Associate Director for Pharmacogenomics of the Pitt/UPMC Institute of Precision Medicine. Dr. Empey helps us understand prec...
Tepper Reads 2020 Podcast #6
Tepper Reads - March 05, 2020 20:44 - 13 minutesLauren Miller, Leadership Coach in the Accelerate Leadership Center, talks about the excitement and loss of relocation, what a big move can do to a couple, finding the right balance of togetherness and autonomy in relationships, how you can live anywhere for a year, and how open, honest communic...
Let's Get Ethical: Data Ethics with Laura Norén
Heinz Radio - February 24, 2020 13:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe're living in a time when so many companies have access to so much information about us that it is easier and easier to both predict and shape our behavior. How can we trust that our data is being used fairly and respectfully? This episode looks at the complex issues behind defining and enforc...
Tepper Reads 2020 Podcast #5
Tepper Reads - February 20, 2020 15:02 - 21 minutesDr. Marian Aguiar, Associate Professor of English in Carnegie Mellon's Department of English, talks about relationships, the importance of stories, why Hamid chose a novel over a work of nonfiction, what it means to cut out the immigrant journey, and how knowing that we continually reinvent ours...
Understanding Internet Culture with Taylor Lorenz
Heinz Radio - February 10, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsTaylor Lorenz is a tech reporter for the New York Times covering internet culture, from memes to social media influencers to emerging online trends. In this episode, Taylor shares her views on “Ok Boomer,” the “flattening” of politics by social media and the internet, and the causes of the Unite...
Tepper Reads 2020 Podcast #4
Tepper Reads - February 06, 2020 16:24 - 19 minutesLaura Maxwell, Leadership Coach in the Accelerate Leadership Center, talks about getting out of her comfort zone, the importance of gratitude and empathy, how leadership means caring and always learning, and how she can never look at a door the same way again.
Putting Government in Its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0
Heinz Radio - January 28, 2020 03:31 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsDavid Riemer is an attorney and policy expert whose career in public service spans over four decades. In this week's episode of Heinz Radio, host Collin T Hayes spoke with Riemer about his new book, "Putting Government in Its Place: The Case for a New Deal 3.0." The book provides an expansive an...
Tepper Reads 2020 Podcast #3
Tepper Reads - January 23, 2020 14:39 - 18 minutesDr. Andreea Ritivoi, Head of Carnegie Mellon University's School of English, talks about her immigrant experience, personalizing the immigrant story, why Mohsin Hamid uses the doors for his characters' journeys, how Exit West makes us more empathic, what made her cry in the novel, and much more.
Tepper Reads 2020 Podcast #2
Tepper Reads - January 13, 2020 17:54 - 18 minutesExecutive Director of the Accelerate Leadership Center, Leanne Meyer, talks about her immigrant experience, relationships, and why reading doesn't feel as important as it once was, but should.
Tackling the Sustainable Development Goals one bite at a time
Heinz Radio - January 13, 2020 08:54 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsWelcome back to Heinz Radio and welcome to year 2020! We hope you had a great holiday break and, for those of you listeners that are current students, we’re hoping you are feeling at least somewhat ready to restart classes again! The sustainable development goals, developed by people and repre...
A Policy Roadmap
Consequential - December 20, 2019 16:13 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsOver the last 9 episodes, we’ve presented a variety of questions and concerns relating to the impacts of technology, specifically focusing on artificial intelligence. To end season 1, we want to take a step back and lay out a policy roadmap that came together from the interviews and research we ...
Paging Dr. Robot
Consequential - December 18, 2019 05:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsDon’t worry, your next doctor probably isn’t going to be a robot. But as healthcare tech finds its way into both the operating room and your living room, we’re going to have to answer the kinds of difficult ethical questions that will also determine how these technologies could be used in other ...
Tepper Reads 2020 Podcast #1
Tepper Reads - December 11, 2019 18:37 - 26 minutesIn the first Tepper Reads 2020 podcast, SHIFT program managers in the Accelerate Leadership Center, which is part of Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business, discuss SHIFT programming, and their love of books.
The Future of Work
Consequential - December 11, 2019 05:00 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIf artificial intelligence can do certain tasks better than we can, what does that mean for the concept of work as we know it? We will cover human-AI collaboration in the workplace: what it might look like, what it could accomplish and what policy needs to be put in place to protect the interest...
A Particular Set of Skills
Consequential - December 04, 2019 05:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsThe World Economic Forum has found that while automation could eliminate 75 million jobs by 2022, it could also create 133 million new jobs. In this episode, we will look at how to prepare potentially displaced workers for these new opportunities. We will also discuss the “overqualification trap...
Staying Connected
Consequential - November 27, 2019 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsIf you think about any piece of pop culture about the future, it takes place in a city. Whether we realize it or not, when we imagine the future, we picture cities, and that idea is all the more problematic when it comes to who benefits from technological change and who does not. This episode wi...
Objectively Good Government with Sara Cortez
Heinz Radio - November 25, 2019 12:30 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsSara Cortez is a 2017 graduate of the Heinz College’s Master of Science in Public Policy and Management program. Since August 2017, she has worked as a Fiscal and Policy Analyst at the California Legislative Analyst’s Office, in the program areas of Early Education, Child Care, and Child Nutriti...
Bursting the Education Bubble
Consequential - November 20, 2019 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsBig data disrupted the entertainment industry by changing the ways that people develop, distribute and access content, and it may soon do the same for education. New technologies are changing education, both within and beyond the classroom, as well as opening up more accessible learning opportun...
Fair Enough
Consequential - November 13, 2019 05:00 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsEveryone has a different definition of what fairness means - including algorithms. As municipalities begin to rely on algorithmic decision-making, many of the people impacted by these AI systems may not intuitively understand how those algorithms are making certain crucial choices. How can we fo...
New Frontiers in Labor with Mario Khreiche
Heinz Radio - November 11, 2019 13:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsIn this week's episode, Justin speaks with Mario Khreiche, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Pittsburgh's History Department. Mario's background in Political & Cultural Thought informs his current research on digital labor and the politics of automation. Justin and Mario discuss some...
Data Subjects and Manure Entrepreneurs
Consequential - November 06, 2019 14:32 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsEvery time you order a shirt, swipe on a dating app or even stream this podcast, your data is contributing to the growing digital architecture that powers artificial intelligence. But where does that leave you? In our deep-dive on data subjects, we discuss how to better inform and better protect...
Applying Data Analysis to Human Rights Investigations with Patrick Ball
Heinz Radio - November 04, 2019 13:00 - 24 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThorough data analysis is crucial to human rights investigations – but collecting and understanding these data can provide an incredible challenge. In this week’s episode, Patrick Ball, Director of Research at Human Rights Data Analysis Group, joins us to discuss his experience with these challe...
The Black Box
Consequential - October 30, 2019 04:30 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsInside the black box, important decisions are being made that may affect the kinds of jobs you apply for and are selected for, the candidates you’ll learn about and vote for, or even the course of action your doctor might take in trying to save your life. However, when it comes to figuring out h...
A possible fix to public assistance programs with FII's Lauren Renaud
Heinz Radio - October 28, 2019 12:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsHow can we help lift people out of poverty for good? Heinz alum Lauren Renaud ('17), now Director of Analytics for the Family Independence Initiative, says we should start by assuming that people who have experienced poverty know more about their unique needs than any government official, philan...
Disruption Disrupted (Co-Release: Consequential, Episode 1)
Heinz Radio - October 23, 2019 15:42 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 10 ratingsThis week Heinz Radio is co-releasing an episode from another Podcast on CMU's Campus. We hope you enjoy! Are the robots coming for your job? The answer isn’t quite that simple. We look at what’s real and what’s hype in the narrative of industry disruption, how we might be able to better predi...
Disruption Disrupted
Consequential - October 23, 2019 04:30 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 29 ratingsAre the robots coming for your job? The answer isn’t quite that simple. We look at what’s real and what’s hype in the narrative of industry disruption, how we might be able to better predict future technological change and how artificial intelligence will change our understanding of the nature o...
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