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Network Law Review

Towards Efficient Data Sharing in Platform Markets

Professor Geoff Parker is a co-author of this guest article on how platforms collect valuable data that they do not share, and welfare then suffers as information asymmetry produces market failures. The authors propose a novel solution that gives users privacy control yet allows third parties to create value with user permission.

Jun 18, 2025

ProMarket

What the FTC v Meta Case Teaches About Big Tech Harms

Professor Geoff Parker co-authored this opinion piece about what the Meta antitrust case reveals about its merger and acquisition strategy and what lessons it holds for regulators as they seek to protect competition in digital platform markets.

Jun 05, 2025

The Vermont Standard

Woodstock's Dr. Ronald Lasky brings accessibility to the world of science

Professor Ronald Lasky is featured in this article about his engineering blog—called 'The Adventures of Patty and the Professor: Solving the world's electronics assembly productivity and quality challenge'—and his approach to teaching at Dartmouth. "I just enjoy pulling from my life and the world around me, to bring brevity and accessibility to the world of science," said Lasky.

May 29, 2025

MIT Sloan Management Review

How to Structure a B2B Marketplace Venture

Professor Geoff Parker co-authored this piece about how companies preparing to launch platform-based marketplaces must think through the implications of organizational and governance choices.

Apr 10, 2025

Science News

New Computer Chips Do Math With Light

Professor Anthony Rizzo is quoted in an article about the development of new computer chips that use laser light to process information. The processors could soon solve specific real-world problems faster and with lower energy requirements than conventional computers. Rizzo noted that these devices have shown that light-based, or photonic, components "can do things that we care about, and that they can do them better than electronic chips that we already have."

Apr 09, 2025

El Mundo America

They create a pacemaker smaller than a grain of rice, disposable, and activated by light

Professor Wei Ouyang is mentioned as one of the researchers on a Northwestern University-developed prototype of the smallest pacemaker in the world, that can be inserted with a syringe and dissolves when it is no longer needed. Its size is very suitable for babies with heart defects.

Apr 04, 2025

Forbes

Active Pixel Sensors Came From NASA

The technology pioneered by Professor Eric Fossum, Director of the PhD Innovation program, is featured in a story about the active pixel sensor built into smartphone systems. The CMOS sensor was originally developed by Fossum at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in 1993.

Mar 29, 2025

The Washington Post

Winter sea ice in the Arctic just hit a record low

Professor Don Perovich is featured in the article about Arctic sea-ice levels falling to a record low, an ominous signal about the effects of climate change and its impact on other parts of the planet. “Sea ice is acting like the old canary in the coal mine," Perovich said. "It’s saying loud and clear that warming is occurring.”

Mar 28, 2025