Algorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics

The BBC has a fascinating series  from 8 to 19 March 2010. The series covers the big thinkers on the digital world and the potential and the nature of the internet. The speaker list is as follows: Week one: Sam Pitroda, Martha Lane Fox, Evgeny Morozov, Steve Ballmer, Ge Wang and Joe Rospars Week two: Eric Schmidt, Philip Emeagwali, Jimmy Wales, Daniel Ek and Victor Koo

ACM EC 2010 accepted papers: M. Babaioff, R. Kleinberg and A. Slivkins, Truthful Mechanisms with Implicit Payment Computation G. Parker and M. Van Alstyne, Platforms for Controlling Downstream Innovation D. Fleder, K. Hosanagar and A.Buja, Recommender Systems and their Effects on Consumers: The Fragmentation Debate J. Feldman, V. Mirrokni, S. Muthukrishnan and M. M Pai, Auctions with Intermediaries S. Seuken, D. Charles, M. Chickering and S. Puri, Market Design and Analysis for a P2P Backup System J. Horton and L. Chilton, The Labor Economics of Paid Crowdsourcing L. Jian and R. Sami, Aggregation and Manipulation in Prediction Markets: Effects of Trading Mechanism and Information Distribution S. Das and M. Magdon-Ismail, Collective Wisdom: Information Growth in Wikis and Blogs T. Chakraborty, S. Judd, M. Kearns and J. Tan, A Behavioral Study of Bargaining in Social Networks M. Babaioff, L. Blumrosen and A. Roth, Auctions with Online Supply K. Iyer, R. Johari and C. Moallemi,...