A workshop called “Towards Better and more Affordable Healthcare: Incentives, Game Theory, and Artificial Intelligence” (HCAGT) will be held on May 5, 2014, in conjunction with AAMAS’14 in Paris. The submission deadline is Feb 16. More details are available on the workshop’s website.
Archive for January, 2014
CFP: HCAGT workshop
Posted in Uncategorized on January 7, 2014| 1 Comment »
Duke’s new MS in Economics and Computation
Posted in Uncategorized on January 3, 2014| 1 Comment »
Guest post by Vincent Conitzer
Duke just started a Master’s of Science in Economics and Computation. Because the program was announced only very recently, the deadline this year is February 15, 2014. The requirements are here.
The program is intended to be very small, at least initially, and piggybacks on some of the existing infrastructure of Duke’s smoothly running Master’s program in Economics.
Still, I believe that this is an exciting development for our area that reflects well on its significance and maturity (of course meanwhile there remains so much to be done!). At the same time, this new MS program is much broader than our area narrowly construed. Students could do very well in it without ever taking a course with me or any of our other faculty that publish in EC/TEAC (Kamesh, Sasa, Rachel, Ozan, Santiago, …). For example, they might choose to focus more on macroeconomics, finance, econometrics, etc. — and there are people at Duke interested in computational aspects of those.
I hope to see this type of program replicated at other universities, and I think there is plenty of room for that. I personally think the broad approach is a good idea, but I am curious to hear what others think about it. It does require us to engage a little with people working on “computational economics” in other senses. (See also earlier discussions here and here.) At the same time, having such MS programs certainly doesn’t require that we all become experts on all those topics ourselves. Most universities should have other people interested in those aspects, and obviously it would be bad for any Master’s program to rely too much on one or two individual faculty. What do people think?
Turing's Invisible Hand 