Midas Oracle .ORG » conferences http://www.midasoracle.org Prediction Markets, etc. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 22:24:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Thomas Malone’s collective intelligence is an abyssal hodgepodge… “à la Prévert”. — [LINK] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/05/13/thomas-malones-collective-intelligence-is-an-abyssal-hodgepodge-a-la-prevert-link/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/05/13/thomas-malones-collective-intelligence-is-an-abyssal-hodgepodge-a-la-prevert-link/#comments Fri, 13 May 2011 21:27:30 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=24734 Continue reading →]]> 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 (e.g., “digital sweatshops”)
computational models of group search and optimization
emergence of intelligence
new technologies for making groups smarter

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/05/13/thomas-malones-collective-intelligence-is-an-abyssal-hodgepodge-a-la-prevert-link/feed/ 0 Prediction Markets at AMMA 2011 — [LINK] http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/25/prediction-markets-at-amma-2011-link/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/25/prediction-markets-at-amma-2011-link/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:11:35 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=23939 AMMA 2011 – Conference on market design.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2011/03/25/prediction-markets-at-amma-2011-link/feed/ 0 The Third International Conference on Prediction Markets http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/12/02/the-third-international-conference-on-prediction-markets/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/12/02/the-third-international-conference-on-prediction-markets/#comments Thu, 02 Dec 2010 16:05:52 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=22072 The Third International Conference on Prediction Markets

Nottingham, United Kingdom

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2010/12/02/the-third-international-conference-on-prediction-markets/feed/ 0 Boycott the $400 vendor conference on prediction markets. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/16/boycott-the-400-vendor-conference-on-prediction-markets/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/16/boycott-the-400-vendor-conference-on-prediction-markets/#comments Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:30:07 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=18203 Continue reading →]]> 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 prediction markets (and enterprise prediction markets, in particular). They don’t have a single use case to demonstrate their usefulness. There is no way you will get any R.O.I. out of those vendor conferences held in a phone booth.

Plus, the SF organizer of these conferences is a guy that has the detestable habit of hiding his identity under many pseudonyms (a female secretary, a “legal assistant”, a foundation director, etc.). This guy is a mythomaniac. Stay away.

Read Paul Hewitt’s blog, instead. It is free —and it tells the truth.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/10/16/boycott-the-400-vendor-conference-on-prediction-markets/feed/ 0 Location for a conference on prediction markets? http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/28/location-for-a-conference-on-prediction-markets/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/28/location-for-a-conference-on-prediction-markets/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:52:04 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=16713 Continue reading →]]> 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 suggestions for us in the same line of thoughts?

Thanks. Appreciated. Will make up to you.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/28/location-for-a-conference-on-prediction-markets/feed/ 0 What do the CIA, the NASA, the World Bank and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory have in common? http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/28/collective-forecasting-inkling-markets/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/28/collective-forecasting-inkling-markets/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:29:58 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=16710 They are all going to participate in Inkling Markets’ DC conference about collective forecasting and prediction markets.

Is the location a restaurant?… !??…

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/28/collective-forecasting-inkling-markets/feed/ 0 Unlike every other academic field, computer science uses conferences rather than journals as the main publication venue. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/04/the-journal-system-as-the-vehicle-for-advancing-researcher-s-reputations/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/04/the-journal-system-as-the-vehicle-for-advancing-researcher-s-reputations/#comments Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:24:06 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=15900 Continue reading →]]> 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 of bringing researchers together. We should use archive sites as the main method of quick paper dissemination and the journal system as the vehicle for advancing researchers’ reputations.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/08/04/the-journal-system-as-the-vehicle-for-advancing-researcher-s-reputations/feed/ 0 Lance Fortnow rants against the too many conferences on computer science. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/24/lance-fortnow-rants-against-the-too-many-conferences-on-computer-science/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/24/lance-fortnow-rants-against-the-too-many-conferences-on-computer-science/#comments Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:38:12 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=15633 Continue reading →]]> 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 can present our research that we can rarely attend conferences and workshops to work and socialize with our colleagues.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/24/lance-fortnow-rants-against-the-too-many-conferences-on-computer-science/feed/ 0 The prediction market conferences are way overpriced. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/10/prediction-market-conferences/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/10/prediction-market-conferences/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:08:32 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=15226 Continue reading →]]> - $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 delivers —while the prediction market conferences don’t.

]]> http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/07/10/prediction-market-conferences/feed/ 4 Inkling Administrator Conference is live on Twitter. http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/05/07/inkling-administrator-conference-is-live-on-twitter/ http://www.midasoracle.org/2009/05/07/inkling-administrator-conference-is-live-on-twitter/#comments Thu, 07 May 2009 17:20:03 +0000 Chris F. Masse http://www.midasoracle.org/?p=13766 head

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. :-D

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