MIT Center for Collective Intelligence - Play-money prediction exchange - REDUX

Chris F. Masse October 25th, 2006

My Question: Does anybody know which software/design the MIT CCI is using here?

The Answer: Shared Insights runs the MIT CCI’s play-money prediction exchange with the software provided by Consensus Point.

More Information: Consensus Point (alias Foresight Technologies) has been providing prediction market software since 1996 (four years before NewsFutures’s launch date). The Foresight Exchange code is open sourced, but is not typically used in enterprise settings. Consensus Point’s Foresight Server software is completely different from that and is licensed to firms that want to run their own internal play-money prediction exchange. In addition, Consensus Point hosts internal prediction markets from 20 to 100,000 participants via the Foresight On Demand server (which also hosts the Washington Stock Exchange).