Title: "The Internet Identity Mess and Opportunities for Improvement"
Abstract: Well into the mainstream Internet's third decade, news about large scale theft of private personal data, including authentication information such as passwords, still comes out with alarming frequency. Meanwhile, even when it isn't stolen, this information is generally perceived to be misused and monetized in ways that disadvantage and disempower the average person. Frustratingly, academicians have known since the...
Speaker: Robert Kleinberg (Cornell, Microsoft New England)
Title: Descending Price Coordinates Approx
Abstract:
When exploring acquisition targets, firms typically begin with the possibilities offering greatest option value and work their way down, as prescribed by optimal search theory. Yet the market designs economists have often prescribed, involving simultaneous or ascending prices, stymie this process. As a result they may be arbitrarily inefficient when one accounts for the costs bidders must invest to...
Title: Assessing the integration of EMRs into the inpatient workflow
Abstract: Electronic Medical Record systems (EMRs) have great potential to improve quality of care, efficiency, safety, clinicians' workflows and patients' experience. However, there is a huge gap between EMRs' potential and their actual use by clinicians due to the cognitive, social and technological challenges. Most of the research on EMR integration and its affect on clinicians and patient-centered care has focused on the primary care context. This study...
CRCS Postdoc Shiri Assis-Hassid will lead a CRCS Act on her work, "Assessing the integration of EMRs into the inpatient workflow."
Please join us for lunch and this informal discussion!
Title: Assessing the integration of EMRs into the inpatient workflow
Abstract: Electronic Medical Record systems (EMRs) have great potential to improve quality of care, efficiency, safety, clinicians' workflows and patients' experience. However, there is a huge gap between EMRs' potential and their actual use by clinicians due to the cognitive, social and technological...
Speaker: Michael Cafarella, University of Michigan
Title: Analyzing Possible Human Trafficking Activity Using Large-Scale Information Extraction
Abstract: Online text advertisements for sex work constitute a large trove of data about potential human trafficking activity. If the information embedded in these advertisements --- price, location, service details, and so on --- could be analyzed using traditional data tools, it might be possible to build tools and models to identify and attack trafficking activity....
Speaker: Megan Price, Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group
Title: How Machine Learning Helps Count Casualties in Syria
Abstract:
A fundamental question in any conflict is 'how many people have been killed?' This seemingly straight-forward question is surprisingly difficult to answer even during times of peace and stability. It becomes virtually impossible to answer during the fog of war. In the case of Syria, numerous individuals and organizations are committed to the dangerous work of documenting victims of the armed...
About this series: At the Reverse AGT Workshop local economists will present an area of economic study for an algorithmic game theory (AGT) audience. The presentations will include a brief introduction to the area and several current research topics. The schedule includes ample time for discussion to make connections to related...