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Full title: Roberta Katz, Author and Stanford alum explains who Gen Z is, and what we can learn from their impacts on work culture and trends.

Description: Author Roberta Katz talks about the most diverse generation yet in her latest book, Gen Z, Explained; The Art of Living in a Digital Age.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 22, 2022.

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E170 | James Zou: Trust is AI’s most critical contribution to health care

AI can reveal remarkable medical insights, but only if patients and doctors have faith in it. Thus, trust has become AI’s singular goal, says this expert in the field.

Among the many areas James Zou might have chosen to apply his considerable knowledge of artificial intelligence, he opted for health care. It was the most interesting, the most complex and the most impactful area of study. In short, it was the most exciting outlet for his expertise.

Since that epiphany, Zou has gone on to publish influential studies that have improved the patient experience, shaped basic research and sped the development of new drugs. Among his most important contributions, Zou says, are efforts to expose and overcome bias in the data and algorithms.

His latest project, Pathfinder, uses anonymized, real-world medical records to allow researchers to conduct synthetic clinical trials on fictional (but realistic) patients, as Zou explains in this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast with host Russ Altman. Listen and subscribe here.

Just as pandemic fatigue is setting in and the Omicron variant is sweeping across the nation—putting a tremendous strain on America’s healthcare infrastructure—the Supreme Court heard arguments in challenges to the Biden administration’s authority to combat the COVID-19. Labor law expert Professor William B. Gould IV joins Joe and Rich to discuss challenges to the administration’s efforts to impose vaccine mandates—and trends in the American labor market during the pandemic.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on January 15, 2022.

Full title: SCOTT REISS, STANFORD ALUM & VOICE OF THE STANFORD CARDINALS TALKS #1 BESTSELLER THAT DEPICTS THE CAREERS OF 15 National TV SPORTS BROADCASTERS

Descripton: SCOTT REISS ASKS BROADCASTERS TO DETAIL THEIR CAREERS IN NEW BOOK "WHERE THEY WERE THEN: SPORTSCASTERS"

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E169 | Martin Fischer: AI and virtual reality can help society build better.

Harnessing the latest tools of computer science, an engineer hopes to reshape one of the oldest fields of human endeavor — construction.

For a profession that has existed essentially since the beginning of human civilization, few people fully appreciate the importance of construction in our everyday lives, but Martin Fischer does. To build the key infrastructure of society, he says, requires intimate understanding of human nature, the environment, the materials and the ever-evolving techniques of building things.

Fischer has grown frustrated with the present state of his profession and decided to change its trajectory using artificial intelligence and virtual reality to redefine what construction will look like in the future.

It’s an effort he hopes will unite the profession in creating more efficient, safer and more livable homes, buildings, airports, bridges and more. Fischer muses all about the future of construction in this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast with host Russ Altman. Listen and subscribe here.

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E167 | Johan Ugander: How misinformation spreads faster than truth

An expert in the spread of misinformation talks about how we might at last conquer falsehood and the surprising new direction his work is taking him.

Stanford professor Johan Ugander is an expert in making sense of messy data. Lately he’s been working to tell fact from fiction online, as news stories spread on social media. He comes at the question from a unique angle, using machine learning to study the differing patterns in how both types of information spread (or don’t).

In so doing, Ugander has come to some interesting conclusions and, more important, suggests some novel strategies for preventing the spread of misinformation. False stories, he says, are more “infectious,” with wide-ranging consequences for how they spread. Strategies to slow or restrict this infectiousness range from increasing digital literacy to asking potential sharers to consider the factual accuracy of a story they are about to share.

Ugander has also started to take his research in a new direction, criminal justice, working to make sense of the complex data records that a Stanford team has collected to understand California’s parole system, as he tells listeners to this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast with host Russ Altman.

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E166 | Gill Bejerano: How cryptogenomics advances both science and privacy

Uniting computer science, mathematics and genomics, one professor hopes to expand access to DNA while keeping it secret.

Much of what the world knows about genetic diseases is learned by comparing the DNA of people with a shared disease against the DNA of otherwise healthy people to learn where the differences lie.

This is all well and good except that, written into all that DNA, is a lot of other information that the subjects would rather keep private. And that’s where Gill Bejerano enters the scene. He’s an expert in cryptogenomics, a discipline that marries the fields of cryptography and genomics to essentially scramble the genetic code to researchers in such a way that they can still glean valuable information from it without revealing the donor’s entire genetic code.

Bejerano’s efforts have been so successful he’s now applying a similar process to medical records, as he explains to host Russ Altman and listeners of this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast. Listen and subscribe here.

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E168 | Cynthia Lee: How to teach computer science

A lecturer in Stanford School of Engineering's Department of Computer Science says that change must come to the classroom from the top and the bottom.

As the field of computer science has evolved over the last half century, so too has the way in which computer science is taught and to whom it is taught.

Stanford lecturer Cynthia Lee says she is encouraged by the diversity she sees as she looks out over her classroom. But that wasn’t always the case, particularly when she, a woman, was in college. Lee has since dedicated her career to changing that mindset from a fixed and rigid outlook to one that is more open and welcoming of diverse backgrounds and skills.

Change, she says, can come from the top in how classes are structured and at the foundation in undoing preconceptions about who can excel in the field. Diverse faces, myriad skills and interests, fewer lectures and more hands-on, peer-to-peer collaboration are in order, Lee tells listeners to this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast with host Russ Altman.

Two time Stanford graduate, Dan Grunfeld has played hoops both in Palo Alto and during his professional career abroad. The Stanford Graduate School of Business alum's new book, “By the Grace of the Game - The Holocaust, A Basketball Legacy and An Unprecedented American Dream” details how three generations of his family tackled various challenges using grit and determination.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on 12/11/21.

When AG Garland put out a call to lawyers, law students, and law schools generally to suit up to deal with the "eviction tsunami" that many are predicting in the coming months, Juliet Brodie, director of the Stanford Community Law Clinic and an expert in tenants’ rights answered the call.

In this episode, Joe and Rick discuss evictions, the challenges lower income Americans face in staying in their homes, and how the law has been innovating during Covid-19. Juliet is joined by Lauren Zack, a teaching and litigation fellow working on the eviction projects with the clinic.

Originally aired on SiriusXM on November 20, 2021.