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Tag Archives: academics
Unlike every other academic field, computer science uses conferences rather than journals as the main publication venue.
Lance Fortnow: While this made sense for a young discipline, our field has matured and the conference model has fractured the discipline and skewered it toward short-term, deadline-driven research. Computer science should refocus the conference system on its primary purpose … Continue reading
Posted in Research, Science
Tagged academia, academics, computer science, conferences, journals, Lance Fortnow, professors, researchers, Science
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Scholarly journals are not so open.
Academic Papers + Open Access + Scholarly Journals = a crazzzzzy mix
Posted in Internet Marketing - Internet Commerce
Tagged academia, academic articles, academic papers, academic researchers, academics, Knowledge, open access, open knowledge, professors, Research, research articles, research papers, research scientists, researchers, scholarly journals, Science
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Robin Hanson: My best idea was prediction markets.
Robin Hanson‘s auto-biography (i.e., how Our Master Of All Universes views HimSelf): – Robin Hanson: Do you find it hard to summarize yourself in a few words? Me too. But I love the above quote. I have a passion, a … Continue reading
Posted in Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, Exchanges & Markets, History, People
Tagged academia, academics, auto-biographies, betting markets, biographies, bios, Collective Decision Making, Collective Forecasting, collective intelligence that predicts, economic science, Economics, economists, event derivative markets, event derivatives, forecasting, forecasts, George Mason Univeristy, idea future markets, idea futures, idea futures markets, Our Master Of All Universes, Policy Analysis Market, predicting, prediction markets, Predictions, professors, research scientists, researchers, Robin Hanson, scholars, tenure, universities
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Do economics professors who have business relationships with prediction market companies indoctrinate their students about the supposed benefits of prediction markets?
Read this New York Times article about academic–industry ties. How much consulting and speaking fees (plus, free meals, tickets, trips or the like) do our economics professors receive from the prediction market industry? Does it taint what they write and … Continue reading
Pssttt… Did I tell you that I like InTrade CEO John Delaney’s comment to the CFTC about “event markets” (prediction markets)? I can’t remember whether I did tell you that already. (I do suffer memory lapses, sometimes. I know it’s a common affliction, because I see that Robin Hanson and Justin Wolfers, just before they signed Bob’s puritan and sterile petition, completely forgot that they were on the board of the Prediction Market Industry Association, which is supposed to lobby for the legalization of InTrade’s real-money prediction markets in the United States of America. A lapse in memory, probably.)
John Delaney (CEO of InTrade) – (InTrade PDF file – CFTC PDF file): Nearly all leading academics, not known for their attraction to unanimity, have publicly supported event markets. A great majority of these academics have been supplied with Intrade … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Humor
Tagged academics, CEO, George Mason University, Humor, InTrade, John Delaney, Justin Wolfers, Pennsylvania, PMIA, Prediction Market Industry Association, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, United States Of America, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
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Is it good to have a prediction market melting pot of academics and businesses?
The Journal of Prediction Markets: The Journal of Prediction Markets Editor: Leighton Vaughan Williams Associate Editors: John Delaney – CEO InTrade Bruno Deschamps – University of Bath Olivier Gergaud – Université de Reims Champagne-Ardennes Robin Hanson – George Mason University … Continue reading
Posted in Analysis (Industry), Ethics, Resources - References
Tagged academics, Arizona, Bruno Deschamps, Business, Canterbury University, CEO, Charles Noussair, David Paton, Editor, Emile Servan-Schreiber, Emory University, Eric Zitzewitz, Erik Snowberg, George Mason University, Jed Christiansen, John Delaney, Justin Wolfers, Kansas, Leighton Vaughan-Williams, London Business School, Marco Ottaviani, Martin Spann, Michael Smith, Niall O'Connor, Nottingham University Business School, Olivier Gergaud, Paul Rhode, Pennsylvania, PMIA, Prediction Market Industry Association, prediction markets, Robin Hanson, Stanford Graduate School, The Journal of Prediction Markets, University of Arizona, University of Bath, University of Kansas School of Business, University of Passau
Koleman Strumpf, University of Pennsylvania
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