Algorithmics, Social choice, Market Design, and Other Topics

There's a p iece in the Guardian on the fourth Industrial revolution and a life where robots do all the work.

A couple of years ago, we came up with a new randomised voting rule called ESR (Egalitarian Simultaneous Reservation). The rule was presented in a paper at AAAI 2014 .  Prof. Anna Bogomolnaia called it the " most ordinally-egalitarian of random voting rules" and "the right way to generalise the Serial rule to the general random voting domain. " Recently,  a  web applet  has been developed by  Antonia Schmalstieg from Technischen Universität München  to illustrate and play around with  the rule. Check it out !

Recent research  by Bonnefon, Shariff, and Rahwan discusses the social dilemma of self-driving cars. Cars can be programmed to prefer sacrificing the car and its driver if the other option is to cause harm to a higher number of people on the road. This will be good for society overall as it minimises the number of casualties. However the paradox is that people may not be willing to buy such cars that do not give higher priority to the safety of the drivers!  

A team of leading AI researchers has released the first report in the series 100 Year Study on Artificial Intelligence . The series of reports is aimed at evaluating the progress of AI technologies in society. The first report's themes include: * Transportation * Home/Service Robots * Healthcare * Education * Entertainment * Low-resource communities * Public Safety and Security * Employment and Workplace

The Economist has an ongoing series on the  field's seminal papers . The latest article is on Nash equilibrium that "boasts a central role in modern microeconomics"

The Economist has started an interesting series on the field's seminal papers . The first article features  George Akerlof ’s 1970 paper, “The Market for Lemons” which is a foundation stone of information economics.