Can Consistent Trust Decisions Bring People Back to Work?
May 19, 2020
Bringing people back-to-work is a grand challenge that requires more than wearing masks, and conforming to hygiene, screening, and distancing. A key component of reopening the economy will be more Testing to establish trust and inform safer behaviors. Ajay Madhock looks at this issue in the next “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems” webinar.
Making Context Relevant for Learning Essential Skills for the Workplace
May 26, 2020
Daily human interactions have a comparable impact on employee productivity and retention. Virtual reality simulations are a powerful modality for developing skilled and effective human-to-human interactions. Mark Atkinson, is CEO of Mursion dives into this topic in the next “Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems” webinar.
Enabling The Economy To Reopen
Jump starting the economies around the world is one of the biggest challenges we have today. mediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar Ajay Madhok shares his expertise and insights on how to get things moving again.
Changing Patterns of Interaction
Getting computers to do our bidding has always been a bit mysterious to those of us not steeped in machine code, operating systems, and programming. mediaX Distinguished Visiting Scholar Susan Stucky explains why and how that has changed.
Surmounting Data Barriers on Global Health Solutions
April 14, 2020
Around the world, people want to get back to work safely and responsibly. However, strategies for rebooting local, national and global economies are throttled by inadequacies in data and their networks. This event kicks off the mediaX webinar series "Thinking Tools for Wicked Problems", and Marsali Hancock will discuss her insights on this important issue.
Re-envisioning the “Seat-Time” Algorithm in Education
Esther Wojcicki, founder of the scholastic journalism program at Palo Alto High School looks at the importance re-envisioning instructional minutes or seat time as defined in the education code.
Human Kindness in the Face of Adversity, mediaX Thought Leader and Writer of Contagion Shares His Thoughts
In the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak, Scott Z Burns was interviewed by the Washington Post to discuss the parallels between the movie he wrote and the current global pandemic.
POSTPONED! Double-Distributed Architecture: A Culture-mimetic Approach for Designing Resilient Sustainable Systems
April 14, 2020
In accordance with the new Stanford University policy aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 (coronavirus), this seminar is currently postponed. We hope to reschedule for a later date. If a new date is available we will announce it in the near future.
A New Lens Opens on the Impacts and Promises of Digital Media
mediaX Faculty Advisor Emeritus Byron Reeves leads a study that captures millions of screenshots in hopes of transforming our understanding of everything from fake news to depression.