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STIET Calendar Winter 2004

Jan 15 Seminar: Terence Kelly 4-5:30 pm, large conf room, ATL Bldg
Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
"Mechanism Design for Resource Allocation in Computing Centers"

Jan 22 Seminar: Brian Kahin 4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Visiting Prof. at the School of Info., the Ford School of Public Policy, and the Dept of Comm. Studies
"The International Politics of Software and Business Method Patents"

Jan 29 Seminar: Robert Axelrod 4-5:30 pm, 411 West Hall
Professor, Political Science and Public Policy, UM Ford School of Public Policy
offered jointly with the Center for the Study of Complex Systems
"Risk in Networked Information Systems"

Feb 5: no seminar

Feb 12 Seminar: Mark Ackerman 4-5:30 pm, large conf room, ATL Bldg
Associate Professor, Elec Engr & Comp Sci and Information
"The Pervasive Challenge of Privacy"

Feb 19 Seminar: Edmund Durfee 4-5:30 pm, large conf room, ATL Bldg
Professor, Electrical Engr & Computer Sci and the School of Information
"Cooperative Real-Time Control Plans for Resource-Limited Agents"

Feb 26: spring break

March 4: David Pennock 4-5:30 pm, large conf room, ATL Bldg
Senior Research Scientist, Yahoo! Research Labs
"A Dynamic Pari-Mutuel Market for Hedging, Wagering, and Information Aggregation"

March 11 Seminar: M.S. Krishnan 4-5:30 pm, large conf room, ATL Bldg
Associate Professor, Business Information Technology, UM Business School
"Price Determinants in Custom Software: A Hedonic Analysis of Offshore
Software Projects"

March 18 Seminar: Brian Noble 4-5:30 pm, large conf room, ATL Bldg
Assistant Professor, Electrical Engr & Computer Sci
"Samsara: Honor Among Thieves in Peer-to-Peer Storage"

March 25 Seminar: Cosma Shalizi 4-5:30 pm, large conf room, ATL Bldg
Visiting Fellow
offered jointly with the Center for the Study of Complex Systems
"Shared Information and Coordinated Activity in Distributed Systems"

April 1 Seminar: Dan Levin 4-5:30 pm, large conf room, ATL Bldg
Professor of Economics, Ohio State University
"When Optimal Choices Feel Wrong: A Laboratory Study of Bayesian Updating, Complexity, and Affect"

April 8 Seminar: Joan Feigenbaum 4-5:30 pm, 1200 EECS
Professor, Computer Science Department, Yale University
"Sensitive Information in the Wired World"

April 15 Seminar: Kai-Uwe Kühn--CANCELLED
Associate Professor of Economics
"The Incentives for Interoperability Degradation in The Market for Workgroup Servers"

April 22 Seminar: Emre Ozdenoren 4-5:30 pm, large conf room, ATL Bldg
Assistant Professor of Economics
"Optimal Auctions with Ambiguity"

June 1: Research Workshop 8 am-2 pm, 411 West Hall
continental breakfast 8 am, lunch 12:30 pm. Faculty and students presenting STIET research activity. Contact Karen Woollams for more information.

The STIET Program is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Research Seminar Series is funded primarily by the UM Office of the Vice President for Research.