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Thomas Malone’s collective intelligence is an abyssal hodgepodge… “à la Prévert”. — [LINK]
Topics of interest include but are not limited to: human computation social computing crowdsourcing wisdom of crowds (e.g., prediction markets) group memory and problem-solving deliberative democracy animal collective behavior mechanism design organizational design public policy design ethics of collective intelligence … Continue reading
Prediction Markets at AMMA 2011 — [LINK]
AMMA 2011 – Conference on market design.
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Tagged AMMA 2011, conferences, events, meetings, prediction markets, workshops
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The Third International Conference on Prediction Markets
The Third International Conference on Prediction Markets Nottingham, United Kingdom
Boycott the $400 vendor conference on prediction markets.
I renew my call for boycotting the $400 vendor conference on prediction markets. Don’t pay $400 to listen to prediction market software vendors. (They should pay you $400, rather, to listen to their marketese.) They highly exaggerate the usefulness of … Continue reading
Location for a conference on prediction markets?
Folks, Do you have suggestions about places in San Francisco? New York City? London? I like what Inkling Markets are doing with “Tap The Collective”. They do it the low-cost way (in a restaurant). It is smart. Do you have … Continue reading
What do the CIA, the NASA, the World Bank and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have in common?
They are all going to participate in Inkling Markets’ DC conference about collective forecasting and prediction markets. Is the location a restaurant?… !??…
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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
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Tagged academia, academics, computer science, conferences, journals, Lance Fortnow, professors, researchers, Science
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Lance Fortnow rants against the too many conferences on computer science.
Lance Fortnow (PDF file): Our conference systems forces researchers to focus too heavily on quick, technical and safe papers instead of considering broader and newer ideas. Meanwhile we have focused much of our time and money on conferences where we … Continue reading
The prediction market conferences are way overpriced.
- $300 for a TechCrunch conference —featuring the top Silicon Valley people. – $400 for a commercial conference on prediction markets —featuring one or two boring academics and a microscopic bunch of second-tier collective forecasting managers. Obviously, the TechCrunch conference … Continue reading
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Inkling Administrator Conference is live on Twitter.
Arik Johnson is twittering it. #inkling And the event is being video-tapped… —stay tuned to Midas Oracle. P.S.: The Inkling workshop is a regret-free conference.