Algorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics

                           MATCH-UP 2012:    the Second International Workshop on Matching Under Preferences                           19-20 July 2012                          Budapest, Hungary          http://econ.core.hu/english/ res/MATCH-UP_2012.html   co-located with SING8: The 8th Spain-Italy-Netherlands Meeting               on Game Theory ( http://sing8.iehas.hu )          Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the seminal paper by Gale and Shapley,...

An online course being taught by Yoav Shoham and Matthew Jackson: (Hat tip to Nadeem Ahmed)

Milind Tambe who heads the Teamcore research group at USC has edited a book on Security and Game Theory  which is soon due in the market. The book overviews recent research developments in the use of algorithmic game theory for security and surveillance.  Here is a recent talk overviewing the topic.

James Gleick talks about his new book "The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood".

Interesting article by the NYT on Google's ideas and invention lab: Google X.

The Simons Foundation is a  NY-based  foundation with the mission to advance basic sciences and mathematics. Their website has an interesting series of featured articles . The articles include one on matching theory and a recent one on Khot's unique games conjecture .

The ESF has published a  report  titled ' Modelling Intelligent Interaction (LogICCC): Logic in the Humanities, Social and Computational Sciences - A Retrospective ' as the LogICCC program comes to a completion. The report gives an overview of the accomplishments of the constituent projects in the program  and presents research highlights. PROJECT ACRONYM PROJECT TITLE CFSC Computational Foundations of Social Choice DiFoS Dialogical Foundations of Semantics GASICS Games for Analysis and Synthesis of Interactive Computational Systems LcpR The Logic of Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning in Uncertain Environments LINT Logic for Interaction LoMoReVi Logical Models of Reasoning with Vague Information SSEAC SOCIAL SOFTWARE for elections, the allocation of tenders and coalition/alliance formation VAAG Vagueness, Approximation and Granularity