Takis Tackles
Takis Konstantopoulos, University of Liverpool, is joined again by George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, for their second column in a series on the impact of AI on academia. They write:
In our article in the April/May 2024 issue, we touched upon how generative AI impacts on…
Takis Konstantopoulos, University of Liverpool, is joined by George Kesidis, Pennsylvania State University, for the first column in a series on the impact of AI on academia. They write:
In a previous Takis Tackles article ([4] in the December 2021 issue) one of us [TK] claimed…
Takis Tackles
IMS Contributing Editor Takis Konstantopoulos writes:
Pandemics, we learn by studying a bit of history, have been game changers. For example, H.G. Wells wrote in A Short History of the World in 1922:
“In the second century A.D. a great misfortune came upon the Roman and Chinese…
Takis Konstantopoulos writes:
We live in extraordinary times. Even though there have been several warnings about the dangers of a pandemic, as, for example, Bill Gates’ warning in 2016, many world leaders did not take them into account. Moreover, some countries like the United States reduced their budgets related…
Modern Applied Probability: a workshop in celebration of Sergey Foss’s 65th birthday, was held May 15–17, 2019, at the International Center for Mathematical Sciences, at The Bayes Centre in Edinburgh, UK. Takis Konstantopoulos reports:
This workshop was organized by two former students (Denis Denisov, University of Manchester, and Seva…