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STIET Calendar Fall 2005
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Sept 8 Seminar: Scott E. Page
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Professor of Complex Systems, Political Science and Economics and Associate Director, Center for the Study of Complex Systems, UM
"Thoughts on Path Dependence"

Sept 15 Seminar: Paul Resnick and Caroline R. Richardson, MD
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Resnick: Professor of
Information; Richardson: Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, and Research Scientist, VA HSR&D
"Centralized and Decentralized Responses to the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina"

Sept 22 Seminar: John Riedl
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Professor of Computer Science, University of Minnesota
"Recommenders for Commerce, Content, and Community"

Sept 29 Seminar: Michael Gordon
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Associate Dean for Information Technology; Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Business Administration; Professor of Business Information Technology, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, UM
"Exploring the Base of the Pyramid: An Empirical Study of Cases from the Field"

Oct 6 Seminar: Romesh Saigal
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, UM
"The Effect of Reputation on Internet Transactions"

Oct 13 Seminar: David Messerschmitt
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Roger A. Strauch Professor Emeritus of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley
"Components: From Hardware and Software to Systems"

Oct 17 Research Workshop 9 am-5 pm, 411 West Hall
continental breakfast 8:30 am, lunch 12:30 pm.
Faculty and students presenting STIET research activity.
Contact Karen Woollams for more information or if you would like to participate.

Oct 20 Seminar: Hila Etzion
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Assistant Professor of Business Information Technology, UM
"Analyzing the Simultaneous Use of Auctions and Posted Prices for Selling Consumer
Goods Online"

Nov 3 Seminar: Rahul Sami
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Assistant Professor of Information, UM
"Computation in a Distributed Information Market"

Nov 10 Seminar: Yan Chen
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Associate Professor of Information, UM
"Social Information and Contribution to Online Communities: A Field Experiment at MovieLens"

Nov 17 Seminar: Brian Kahin
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Visiting Professor of Information, Public Policy and Communication, UM
"Standards, Patents, and the Politics of Reform"

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Dec 1 Seminar: Christopher Yoo
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Professor of Law, Vanderbilt University Law School
"Network Regulation:  The Many Faces of Access"

Dec 8 Seminar: John L. King
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Dean, School of Information, UM
"The Terminal "T" in STIET: Toward a Philosophy of Transaction"

Dec 15 Seminar: Wolfgang Koenig
4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Electronic Finance Laboratory, University of Frankfurt, Germany
"The E-Finance Lab at Frankfurt’s Goethe University as a Public-Private Research Partnership – and one of the recent research results: Risks and Benefits of Business Process Outsourcing"

The STIET Program is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Research Seminar Series is funded by a Rackham Interdisciplinary Workshop grant and the UM Office of the VP for Research.