Items tagged with IMPACT

How new technologies will impact society in the coming years or how Artificial Intelligence can help sectors such as the economy or the environment is a question we all ask ourselves.

Epidemiology has recently witnessed great advances based on computational models. Its scope and impact are getting wider thanks to the new data sources feeding analytical frameworks and models. Besides traditional variables considered in epidemiology, large-scale social patterns can be now integrated in real time with multi-source data bridging the gap between different scales. In a hyper-connected world, models and analysis of interactions and social behaviors are key to understand and stop outbreaks.