Takis Tackles
Takis Konstantopoulos, University of Liverpool, contributes a short meditation on how we became data points:
Over the years I have written in these pages about teaching, learning, and the curious ways in which mathematics and statistics evolve inside universities. I would like to return to that theme, because something rather…
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…