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Economics and Computation 2020: virtual, early and often (from June 15 to July 22)

The EC conference will be virtual this year, and the organizers have given that some thought.  Here…

Behavioral Economics, Computation, and Game Theory, all in Budapest in July, or online...

Here's the (appropriately cautious) announcement: Behavioral EC '20 2nd Workshop on Behavio…

Paul Milgrom's Marshall Lectures are now available on video

Auctions are ancient, but the linked auctions Paul talks about in his lectures are stunningly moder…

"The Ethical Algorithm" by Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth (book talk at Google)

Here's a talk about " The Ethical Algorithm--The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Desig…

The Shapley value and explainable machine learning

Machine learning via deep neural nets is famously a black box approach to prediction, but efforts a…

Academic (computer science) conferences as marketplaces

Eppstein and Vazirani propose a centralized marketplace for computer science conferences: A Market …

Harvey Prize to Christos Papadimitriou

The Technion's 2018 Harvey Prize prize, to Christos Papadimitriou , has been only recently anno…

Milgrom Marshall Lectures at University of Cambridge

Paul Milgrom will be giving the 2019-2020 Marshall Lectures at Cambridge today and tomorrow.  Here&…

Matching markets @ Simons Institute are multi-disciplinary

Two recent blog posts at the algorithmic game theory blog Turing's Invisible Hand remark on the…

Automatic algorithmic affirmative action, by Ashesh Rambachan and Jonathan Roth

There's been some justified concern that algorithms that make predictions and choices based on …

Algorithms and intelligence at Penn

From Penn Today: The human driver As the ability to harness the power of artificial intelligence gr…

Celebrating Christos Papadimitriou at 70 at Columbia: September 6-8, 2019.

Christos Papadimitriou, the computer scientist who intersects with market design trhough his big co…

Congratulations to Yannai Gonczarowski

Yannai Gonczarowski , who will be  a post-doc at Microsoft Research New-England starting this summe…

Economics and CS at the Association for Computing Machinery

The special interest group within the association for computing machinery that runs activities rela…

Ethical algoritms: a recent talk and a forthcoming book

Increasingly, algorithms are decision makers. Here's a recent talk, and a book forthcoming in O…

Cornell celebrates Eva Tardos

In the Cornell Sun: A Tribute to the Women in Lab Coats, Behind the Microscopes and Computer Screen…

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