Showing posts with label computer assisted markets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label computer assisted markets. Show all posts
Monday, May 29, 2023

Further progress on course allocation, by Budish, Gao, Othman, Rubinstein and Zhang

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  Here are some new developments in the course allocation mechanism used initially in Wharton and now elsewhere.  It turns out that strategy...
Tuesday, April 6, 2021

Cloud Pricing: The Spot Market Strikes Back, by Dierks and Seuken in Management Science

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  Sven Seuken writes: " I just read your blog post about the new paper on economics of cloud computing , which is very interesting. Gi...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Some economics of providing cloud computing, by Microsoft economists Hummel and Schwarz

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  Here's a paper on an aspect of cloud computing by two Microsoft economists. (Microsoft's cloud service is called Microsoft Azure.)...
Monday, November 2, 2020

Ethics of machine learning--an interview with Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth

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  Amazon Scholars Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth discuss the ethics of machine learning--Two of the world’s leading experts on algorithmic bi...
Monday, December 23, 2019

Paul Milgrom's Marshall Lectures are now available on video

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Auctions are ancient, but the linked auctions Paul talks about in his lectures are stunningly modern, and depend on high powered, thought...
Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Milgrom Marshall Lectures at University of Cambridge

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Paul Milgrom will be giving the 2019-2020 Marshall Lectures at Cambridge today and tomorrow.  Here's a video abstract by Paul: 2...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Automatic algorithmic affirmative action, by Ashesh Rambachan and Jonathan Roth

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There's been some justified concern that algorithms that make predictions and choices based on previous choices made by humans might re...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Ethical algoritms: a recent talk and a forthcoming book

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Increasingly, algorithms are decision makers. Here's a recent talk, and a book forthcoming in October, about what we might mean by eth...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Cornell celebrates Eva Tardos

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In the Cornell Sun: A Tribute to the Women in Lab Coats, Behind the Microscopes and Computer Screens By Sophie Reynolds, Catherine Cai, ...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Digital Economy and Inclusive Growth--report from the Luohan Academy

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Here's an initial report from the Luohan Academy :   Digital Technology and Inclusive Growth --Executive Summary From the mission ...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Kidney exchange and computation

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Here's an article on how computation--broadly characterized as artificial intelligence--has changed kidney transplantation. It gives so...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Alibaba forms Luohan Academy to promote research in digital economy

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I just returned from a lightning visit to Hanzhou, the home of Alibaba, which is founding a research academy to study the digital economy. ...
Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Market design as a growing part of computer science

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I'm encouraged to see this from Northwestern CS: SPECIAL QUARTER: DATA SCIENCE & ONLINE MARKETS - APRIL 15 TO JUNE 15 "In r...
Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Incentives in Computer Science--Tim Roughgarden

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There was a time when only economists worried about incentives, but as this great looking computer science course by Tim Roughgarden shows,...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Algorithmic economics at Microsoft Research NYC

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A rose by any other name (and a postdoc position at Microsoft Research NYC):  Algorithmic Economics  at Microsoft Research Here's the...
Thursday, January 29, 2015

The App Economy: at SIEPR

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I'm looking forward to spending the day tomorrow at SIEPR, learning about how apps are changing the internet and the world. (That's...
Sunday, January 11, 2015

Eva Tardos honored as ICIAM lecturer

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Here's the story from Cornell, celebrating Eva Tardos , with a nice view of how market design looks from a computer science perspective...
Friday, October 18, 2013

The Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences at Penn

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I'm in Philadelphia today, to speak at the inauguration of Penn's new Warren Center for Network and Data Sciences . The directors a...
Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Market design in a future of trusted smart markets: paper by Eduardo Azevedo and Eric Budish

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The recent NBER conference on market design had a number of remarkable papers. One of them, by Eduardo Azevedo and Eric Budish , seems to m...
Friday, May 27, 2011

The market for taxis

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With a Start-Up Company, a Ride Is Just a Tap of an App Away " Uber , a start-up based in San Francisco, offers a cellphone applicatio...
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