## Past TOPS-Tech Research Seminars

## <a class="ck-anchor" id="IS">Technology</a>

Fall 2025**Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**Beibei Li
(Carnegie Mellon University)September 17th
12:30pmKMC 4-90Learning Social Determinants of Health from Location Big DataIndranil Bardhan
(University of Texas at Austin)October 15th
12:30pmKMC 4-120TBA

## **2022–2023 Academic Year**

**Fall 2022****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**Joshua Gans (Toronto)September 14th 11:00am–12:30pm ETKMC 2-80"A Solomonic Solution to Ownership Disputes: An
Application to Blockchain Front-Running"**Spring 2023****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**Catherine Tucker (MIT)February 1, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Data Deserts and Black Boxes: The Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Consumer ProfilingJohn Horton (MIT)February 15, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Advertising as Coordination: Experimental Evidence on Adding Advertising to a MarketLeman Akoglu (Carnegie Mellon University)March 1, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Unsupervised Machine Learning for Explainable Health Care Fraud DetectionSteve Tadelis (UC Berkeley)March 29, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Communication, Learning, and Bargaining Breakdown: An Empirical AnalysisAlessandro Acquist (Carnegie Mellon University)April 19, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Behavioral Advertising and Consumer Welfare: An Empirical InvestigationHermant Bhargava (UC Davis)April 26, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90If It's Enraging, it is Engaging: Infinite Scrolling in Information PlatformsJason Chan (University of Minnesota)May 3, 2023

12:30–1:45 PM

KMC 4-90Policing the Police: Examining the Role of News Reports on Radically-Biased Policing

## **2019 - 2020 Academic Year**

**Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title****Fall 2019**[Youngjin Yoo](http://weatherhead.case.edu/faculty/youngjin-yoo)
(Case Western)September 26, 2019
12:30 - 1:45pmKMC 4-80*"Artificial Intelligence as Information Infrastructure and the Future of a Firm"*[Phanish Puranam](http://www.insead.edu/faculty-research/faculty/phanish-puranam)
(INSEAD)October 3, 2019
12:30 - 1:45pmKMC 4-80*"Influence Structures &amp; Group Decision Quality"*[Rob Seamans](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/robert-seamans)
(NYU Stern)November 15, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 4-80*"The Occupational Impact of Artificial Intelligence: Labor, Skills, &amp; Polarization"***Spring 2020**[Nir Rosenfeld](http://crcs.seas.harvard.edu/people/nir-rosenfeld)
(Harvard)February 20, 2020
12:30 -1:45 pmKMC 4-80*"Learning Representations by Humans, for Humans"*[Alex Teytelboym](http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk/faculty/alex-teytelboym)
(Oxford)February 27, 2020
12:30 -1:45 pmTBA*To Be Announced*[Aaron Roth](http://www.amcs.upenn.edu/people/aaron-roth)
(UPenn)March 12, 2020
12:30 -1:45 pmTBA*To Be Announced*[Joshua Gans](http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/FacultyAndResearch/Faculty/FacultyBios/Gans)
(University of Toronto)April 2, 2020
12:30 - 1:45 pmTBA*To Be Announced*[Paul DiMaggio](http://as.nyu.edu/content/nyu-as/as/faculty/paul-dimaggio.html)
(NYU)April 23, 2020
12:30 - 1:45 pmTBA*To Be Announced*[Aija Leiponen](http://dyson.cornell.edu/faculty-research/faculty/ael24/)
(Cornell)April 30, 2020
12:30 - 1:45 pmTBA*To Be Announced*[Steve Tadelis](http://haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/tadelis-steven/)
(Berkeley-Haas)May 7, 2020
12:30 - 1:45 pmTBA*To Be Announced*[Feng Zhu](http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=14938)
(Harvard)May 14, 2020
12:30 - 1:45 pmTBA*To Be Announced*

## **2018 - 2019 Academic Year**

**Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title****Fall 2018**[P](http://datamining.rutgers.edu/)[eter Flach](http://people.cs.bris.ac.uk/~flach//)
(University of Bristol)October 25, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 3-90*Towards a Measurement Theory for Data Science*[Solon Barocas](http://solon.barocas.org/)
(Cornell Tech)November 1, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 2-70*The Intuitive Appeal of Explainable Machines*[Jonas Hjort](https://sites.google.com/site/jonashjort/)
(Columbia)November 15, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 3-90*The Arrival of Fast Internet and Employment in Africa*[P](https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/jl4130)[inar Yildirim](https://marketing.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/pyild/)
(Wharton)December 6, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 2-70*Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Senate Elections and Media Coverage***Spring 2019**[Benjamin Shestakofsky](https://www.benjaminshestakofsky.com/)
(U Penn)January 10, 2018
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 4-90*Working Algorithms: Software Automation and the Future of Work*[Kevin Werbach](https://lgst.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/werbach/)
(Wharton)January 31, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 2-70*To Be Announced*[Samer Faraj](https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/samer-faraj)
(McGill University)April 4, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 4-90*To Be Announced*[Jeannette M. Wing](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~wing/)
(Columbia)May 2nd, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 4-90*To Be Announced*[C](http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=775022)[hris Forman](https://dyson.cornell.edu/faculty-research/faculty/cmf257)
(Cornell)May 9, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 4-90*To Be Announced*[E](https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty/gordon-burtch)[mma Vaast](https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/emmanuelle-vaast)
(McGill)May 16, 2019
12:30 - 1:45 pmKMC 4-90*To Be Announced*

## **2016 - 2017 Academic Year**

**Spring 2017:****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Marshall Van Alstyne](https://www.bu.edu/energy/people/faculty/bio-van-alstyne/)
(Boston University)March 29, 2017
12:30-1:45pmKMC 3-120"The Role of APIs in Firm Performance"

And results from "Pipelines, Platforms and the New Rules of Strategy"[Wolf Ketter](http://www.ewi.uni-koeln.de/en/wir-ueber-uns/direktoren/prof-dr-wolf-ketter/)
(Erasmus University)April 19, 2017
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-120"FleetPower: Creating Virtual Power Plants in Sustainable Smart Electricity Markets"**Fall 2016:****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Hanna Halaburda](https://works.bepress.com/halaburda/)
(NYU)*To be rescheduled*[Frank Pasquale](https://www.law.umaryland.edu/faculty/profiles/faculty.html?facultynum=984)
(University of Maryland)*To be rescheduled for Fall 2017*[Andrew Mao](http://www.andrewmao.net/)
(Microsoft Research NYC)September 29, 2016
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-80*Studying Teamwork and Cooperation in the Virtual Lab*[Ashish Agarwal](https://sites.google.com/site/ashish1site/)
(University of Texas)October 20, 2016
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-70*Word-of-Mouth in Social Media Advertising on Facebook*[Alex Peysakhovich](http://alexpeys.github.io/)
(Facebook)November 3, 2016
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-70*Some things they told me never to do in grad school (but actually work in the real world)*[Bo Cowgill](http://www.columbia.edu/~bc2656/)
(Columbia University)November 10, 2016
12:30-1:45pmKMC 3-70*Productivity and Automation of Subjective Judgements: Evidence from Resume Screening*[Vibhanshu Abhishek](http://www.vibhanshu.com/)
(Carnegie Mellon University)November 17, 2016
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-70*Food for Thought: The Impact of m-Health Enabled Interventions on Eating Behavior*

## **2015 - 2016 Academic Year**

**Spring 2016:** **Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Hanna Halaburda](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/hanna-halaburda)
(NYU Stern)April 14, 2016
12:30-1:45pmKMC 3-50[Can We Predict the Winner in a Market with Network Effects? Competition in Cryptocurrency Market](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/HannaHalaburda.pdf)[Ben Shneiderman](http://www.cs.umd.edu/~ben/)
(University of Maryland)April 21, 2016
12:30-1:45pmKMC 3-50[The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/BenShneiderman.pdf)
*\*Joint talk with NYU Center for Data Science*[Shiri Azenkot](http://shiriazenkot.com/)
(Cornell Tech)April 26, 2016
12:15-1:30pmKMC 3-110[Designing Accessible Nonvisual Interaction for Mobile Devices](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Shiri%20Azenkot.pdf)[Bo Cowgill](http://www.columbia.edu/~bc2656/)
(Columbia University)May 12, 2016
12:30-1:45pmTBDTBD**Fall 2015:****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Ching Ren](https://carlsonschool.umn.edu/faculty/yuqing-ren)
(University of Minnesota)September 11, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-130[Understanding Word-of-Mouth and Customer Engagement on Facebook Business Pages](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/ChingRen_0.pdf)[Kevin Boudreau](http://www.kevinboudreau.com/)
(Harvard Business School &amp; London Business School)September 17, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-130[Companies vs. ‘Crowds’ on the AppStore: Competition, Innovation and Experimentation in Markets with Low Innovation Costs and Creative Work](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/KevinBoudreau.pdf)[Matt Backus](https://sites.google.com/a/umich.edu/mrb/)
(Columbia)September 24, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-130[Cheap Talk, Round Numbers, and the Economics of Negotiation](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/MattBackus.pdf)[Ben Shneiderman](https://www.cs.umd.edu/users/ben/)
(University of Maryland)**POSTPONED to Spring 2016**
April 14, 2016[The New ABCs of Research: Achieving Breakthrough Collaborations](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/BenShneiderman_0.pdf)[Steve Tadelis](http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/stadelis/)
(UC Berkeley)October 22, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-130[The Limits of Reputation in Platform Markets: An Empirical Analysis and Field Experiment](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Steve%20Tadelis.pdf)[Christian Catalini](http://www.catalini.com/)
(MIT)October 29, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-130[MIT Digital Currencies Experiment](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/ChristianCatalini.pdf)[Youngjin Yoo](http://www.fox.temple.edu/mcm_people/youngjin-yoo/)
(Temple University)November 5, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-130[Design and Evolution of Complex Socio-technical Systems: An Organizational Genetics Approach](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/YoungjinYoo.pdf)[Michael Bernstein](http://hci.stanford.edu/msb/)
(Stanford University)November 12, 2015
12:30pm-1:45pmKMC 3-130[Crowdsourcing a Meeting of Minds](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/MichaelBernstein.pdf)[Liz Gerber](http://egerber.mech.northwestern.edu/)
(Northwestern University)November 19, 2015
12:30-1:45pmKMC 3-130[Organizations and Technology to Empower Collective Innovation](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/LizGerber.pdf)[Pedro Ferreira](http://pedro-ferreira.org/)
(Carnegie Mellon University)December 3, 2015
12:30-1:45pmKMC 3-130[Target the ego or target the group: Evidence from a randomized experiment in pro-active churn management](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/PedroFerreira.pdf)

## **2014 - 2015 Academic Year**

**Spring 2015****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Presentation Title**[Michael Luca](http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=602417)
(HBS)
May 7, 2015
4:00pm - 5:30pm
KMC 3-130[Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud](http://people.hbs.edu/mluca/Papers%20on%20RIS/FakeItTillYouMakeIt.pdf)**Fall 2014****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Presentation Title**[Andreea Gorbatai](http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/gorbatai/)
(UC Berkeley)
November 13
4:00 - 5:30pm
KMC 3-110[Enchanting Fields: Collective Events and Emotions as Value-Amplifiers During Field Emergence and Institutionalization](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/AGorbatai_Announcement.pdf)[Param Vir Singh](http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~psidhu/)
(CMU)November 20
4:00 - 5:30pm
KMC 3-110[Is Core-Periphery Network Good for Knowledge Sharing? A Structural Model of Endogenous Network Formation on a Crowdsourced Customer Support Forum](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/PVSingh_Announcement.pdf)

## **2013 - 2014 Academic Year**

**Spring 2014****Speaker****Date/Room****Presentation Title**[Ritu Agarwal](http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal/)
University of MarylandTues, April 1st
12:30-1:45pm
KMC 4-60
\*Lunch at 12:15pm[Physician Heal Thyself? Competency Traps, Expertise, and Changes in Decision Making After Information Shocks](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_046870.pdf)[Daniel Neill](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~neill/)
Carnegie Mellon UniversityThurs, April 3rd
4:00-5:30pm
KMC 4-80[Scaling Up Event and Pattern Detection to Big Data](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_046871.pdf)[Mykola Pechenizkiy](http://www.win.tue.nl/~mpechen/)
Eindhoven University of TechnologyTues, May 6th
12:30-1:45pm
KMC 3-110
\*Lunch at 12:15pm[Context discovery and context integration in predictive Web analytics](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_047452.pdf)**Fall 2013**
*Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Thursday afternoons from 4:00-5:30 pm.***Speaker****Date/Room****Presentation Title**[Paul Leonardi](http://comm.soc.northwestern.edu/leonardi/)
Northwestern University9/19/13
KMC 4-60[Ambient Awareness: Using Social Media to Improve Accuracy of Organizational Metaknowledge](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_043909.pdf)[Peter Sheridan Dodds](http://www.uvm.edu/~cems/?Page=employee/profile.php&SM=employee/_employeemenu.html&EmID=1011)
University of Vermont11/7/13
KMC 4-110[Measuring Happiness, Health, and Social Stories](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_044849.pdf)[Shawndra Hill](https://opimweb.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/33/)
University of Pennsylvania12/5/13
KMC 3-110[Talkographics: Using What Viewers Say Online to Calculate Audience Affinity Networks for Social TV-based Recommendations](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_045314.pdf)

Spring 2013**Speaker****Date****Time/**
**Location****Title** [Balaji Padhmanaban](http://www.usf.edu/business/contacts/padmanabhan-balaji.aspx)
University of Southern FloridaThursday, April 18th4:00-5:30pm
Tisch 201[The “Top N” News Recommender: Count Amplification and Manipulation Resistance](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_041317.pdf) [Ritu Agrawal](http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/directory/ritu-agarwal)
University of MarylandCancelledN/AN/A [Chris Forman](http://scheller.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/forman/index.html)
Georgia TechThursday, May 9th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 3-50[Digital Erosion of Firm Boundaries: Production Chain Organization and IT Use in US Manufacturing](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_041415.pdf)

Fall 2012**Speaker****Date****Time/**
**Location****Title** [Dean Eckles](http://www.deaneckles.com/bio/)
FacebookThursday, September 27th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 3-60[Estimating Peer Effects With and Without Experiments](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_038024.pdf) [Cyrus Samii](http://politics.as.nyu.edu/object/cyrussamii.html)
New York UniversityThursday, November 10th12:30-2:00pm
KMC 4-90[Estimating Casual Effects in Social Network Experiments: A Constructive Critique of Recent Studies](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_038259.pdf) [Marius Florin Niculescu](http://scheller.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/niculescu/index.html)
Georgia TechThursday, November 15th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 4-60[Engineering Optimal Network Effects via Social Media Features and Seeding in Markets for Digital Goods and Services](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_038410.pdf) [Anitesh Barua](http://misbridge.mccombs.utexas.edu/profiles/faculty/barua_anitesh.asp)
University of TexasThursday, November 29th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 3-70[Reexamining the Market Value of Technology Investments in Organizations](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_038544.pdf) [Il Horn Hann](http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/doit/faculty/hann.aspx)
University of MarylandThursday, December 6th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 4-90[Social Bias in Online Product Ratings -- A Quasi-Experimental Study](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_038649.pdf) [Avi Goldfarb](http://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/~agoldfarb/)
University of TorontoThursday, December 13th12:30-2:00pm
KMC 4-90[The Trillion Dollar Conundrum: Complementarities and Health Information Technology](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_038650.pdf)

Spring 2011**Speaker****Date****Time/**
**Location****Title** [Catherine Tucker](http://cetucker.scripts.mit.edu/)
MITThursday, February 3rd4:00-5:30pm
KMC 5-90[Can Healthcare IT Save Babies?](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1080262) [Phil Maymin](http://www.poly.edu/user/pmaymin)
NYU PolyThursday, February 10th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 5-90[Markets are Efficient if and only if P=NP](http://ssrn.com/abstract=1525913) [Mor Naaman](http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~mor/)
RutgersThursday,
March 24th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 5-90[Emotion, Tie Persistence and Network Structure on Twitter](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-IS%20SP2011%20Mor%20Naaman.pdf) [Gal Oestreicher-Singer](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~goestrei/)
Tel Aviv UniversityThursday,
April 7th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 5-90[The Quest for Content: How User Generated Links Can Facilitate Online Exploration](http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1538283) [Elad Yom-Tov](http://www.yom-tov.info/)
Yahoo! ResearchThursday,
April 14th4:00-5:30pm
KMC 5-85[Predicting Customer Churn in Mobile Networks Through Analysis of Social Groups](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-IS%20Sp2011%20Elad%20Yom-Tov.pdf)

**Fall 2010****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/**
**LOCATION****TITLE** [Shane Greenstein](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/greenstein/)
Kellogg,
NorthwesternThursday,
September 16th4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90[The Internet and Local Wages: Convergence or Divergence?](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/greenstein/images/htm/Research/WP/internet_and_growth-final_2009_02_05.pdf) [Sanjeev Goyal](http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/goyal/)
CambridgeThursday,
September 23rd4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 4-110[The law of the few: origins and implications](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Sanjeev%20Goyal.pdf) [David Jensen](http://kdl.cs.umass.edu/people/jensen/)
U Mass.Thursday,
October 14th4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90[Causal Discovery in Social Networks](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/David%20Jensen.pdf) [Gerald (Jerry) Kane](http://www.profkane.com/)
Boston CollegeThursday,
October 21st4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90[A Multi-Method Study of the Creation of Medical Information on Wikipedia](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Kane%20Abstract.pdf) [Jennifer Neville](http://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/neville/) PurdueThursday,
October 28th4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90[Hypothesis Testing Methods for Social Network Mining](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Neville.pdf) [Eric Overby](http://mgt.gatech.edu/directory/faculty/overby/index.html)
Georgia TechThursday,
November 11th4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90[Limited Attention, Market Speculation, and the Effect of Electronic Trading: Evidence from the Wholesale Automotive Market](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Eric%20Overby.pdf) [Gediminas Adomavicius](http://ids.csom.umn.edu/faculty/gedas/)
University of MinnesotaThursday,
December 2nd4:00-5:30 pm
KMC 5-90[On the Stability of Recommendation Algorithms](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/AdomaviciusZhang.pdf)

**Spring 2010****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/**
**LOCATION****TITLE** [Mark Handcock](http://www.stat.ucla.edu/~mark.handcock/)
UCLA**Friday**,
February 12th**11:30am-12:30pm**
KMC 5-90[Statistical Methods for Sampling Hidden Networked Populations](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/MarkHandcockSpring2010.pdf)
*This is a joint seminar with IOMS-Statistics.* [Tunay Tunca](https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultyprofiles/biomain.asp?id=75520559)
Stanford**Monday,** February 15th**12:30-2:00pm**
KMC 5-85[An Empirical Analysis of Price, Quality, and Incumbency in Online Service Procurement Auctions](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Tunay%20Tunca.pdf) (joint work with DJ Wu and Vivian Zhong)
*This is a joint seminar with IOMS-Operations Management.* [Elizabeth J. Davidson](http://davidson.shidler.hawaii.edu/)
University of Hawaii at ManoaThursday,
March 25th4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90[Tech Talk: Investigating the Emergence of New Actors through New Media in Technology Innovation Discourse](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/ElizabethDavidsonSp2010.pdf) [David Blei](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/)
PrincetonThursday,
April 8th4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90[Supervised and Relational Topic Models](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/David%20Blei.pdf) [Steven Johnson](http://community.mis.temple.edu/stevenljohnson/)
TempleThursday,
April 15th4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90[Network Exchange Patterns and Power Laws in Online Communities](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Steven%20Johnson.pdf) [Adam Seth Litwin](http://carey.jhu.edu/faculty_research/Faculty_Bios/Adam%20Seth%20Litwin)
Johns HopkinsThursday,
April 22nd4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90[Technological Change at Work: The Impact of Employee Involvement on the Effectiveness of Health Information Technology](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Adam%20Seth%20Litwin.pdf) [Raghu Garud](http://www.smeal.psu.edu/fcfe/people/copy_of_garud.html)
Penn State**CANCELED**
Thursday,
April 29th4:15-5:45pm
KMC 5-90\*\*This talk has been **canceled**. We hope to reschedule for next semester. \*\*

**Fall 2009****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/**
**LOCATION****TITLE** [S. Muthu Muthukrishnan](http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~muthu/)
Google and
Rutgers UniversityThursday,
September 174:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-85[Research Issues in Internet Ad Exchanges](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Muthu%20abstract.pdf) [Matt Jackson](http://www.stanford.edu/~jacksonm/)
Stanford UniversityThursday,
September 244:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-85[Identifying the Roles of Choice and Chance in Network Formation: Racial Biases in High School Friendships](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/MattJackson%20abstract.pdf) [Peter Fader](http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/faderp.html)
Wharton, UPennThursday,
October 84:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-85[Customer-Base Analysis in a Discrete-Time Noncontractual Setting](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Peter%20Fader.pdf) [Nikolay Archak](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~narchak/)
NYU SternThursday,
October 154:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-80[Money, glory and entry deterrence: analyzing strategic behavior of contestants in simultaneous crowdsourcing contests on TopCoder.com](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Nikolay%20RSS%20paper.pdf) [David Huffaker](http://www.davehuffaker.com/blog/)
University of MichiganThursday,
November 194:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-85[Dimensions of Leadership and Social Influence in Online Communities](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/DavidHuffakerabstract.pdf)

[Karim Lakhani](http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=ovr&facEmId=klakhani@hbs.edu)
HarvardThursday, December 34:15-5:45 pm
KMC 5-85[The Determinants of Individual Performance and Collective Value in Private-Collective Software Innovation](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/IS-Karim%20Lakhani.pdf)

**IOMS-IS RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES:**
**SPRING 2009****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/**
**LOCATION****TITLE** [Youngjin Yoo](http://www.mis.temple.edu/people/yoo/)
Temple UniversityThursday Feburary 123:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90[Path Creation in Innovation Design: A Multi-Layered Perspective](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Layers%20of%20path%20creation.pdf) [Alessandro Acquisti](http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/) Carnegie MellonThursday February 193:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90[Inferring Sensitive Information from Public Data](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Acquisti.doc) [Carter Butts](http://erzuli.ss.uci.edu/~buttsc/)
UC IrvineThursday
March 53:30-5 pm
KMC 5-90[Coping with Disruption: Emergent Networks During Disasters](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/CTButtsabstract.doc) [Sarah Rice](http://www.business.uconn.edu/cms/p461/u663/mc/r)
University of ConnecticutThursday
March 263:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90[Simultaneous Online Auctions by Sellers of Different Reputations: Theory and Experimental Evidence](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/RiceAbstract.doc) [Lee Fleming](http://drfd.hbs.edu/fit/public/facultyInfo.do?facInfo=bio&facEmId=lfleming)
Harvard Business SchoolThursday
April 23:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90[Regional Disadvantage: How Non-compete Agreements Impact Careers, Entrepreneurship, and Innovative Dynamics](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Regional%20Disadvantage%20abstract.doc) [*Ray Reagans*](http://public.tepper.cmu.edu/facultydirectory/FacultyDirectoryProfile.aspx?id=110)
*Carnegie Mellon**Thursday*
*April 9**3:45-5:15 pm*
*Room TBA**This seminar has been canceled. This seminar has been rescheduled for May 7.* [Vijay Gurbaxani](http://web.gsm.uci.edu/~gurbaxan/default.htm) UC IrvineTuesday April 2112:45 KMC 8-170Performance Measurement and IT Outsourcing - RSVP required; please contact Shirley Lau at 212 998 0810 [Avi Bernstein](http://www.ifi.uzh.ch/ddis/bernstein.html)
University of ZurichThursday
April 233:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-90[Tell Me Where You’ve Lived, and I’ll Tell You What You Like: Adapting Interfaces to Cultural Preferences](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Reinecke_Bernstein.pdf) [*Michael Kearns*](http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/) *University of Pennsylvania**Thursday*
*April 30**3:45-5:15 pm*
*Room TBA**This seminar has been canceled. We hope to reschedule the speaker in the fall.* [Ray Reagans](http://public.tepper.cmu.edu/facultydirectory/FacultyDirectoryProfile.aspx?id=110)
Carnegie MellonThursday May 73:45-5:15 pm KMC 5-75[Bridging the Knowledge Gap: The impact of strong ties, network cohesion and network range](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Bridging%20the%20knowledge%20gap.doc)

**FALL 2008****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/**
**LOCATION****TITLE** [Jure Leskovec](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jure/)
Cornell/StanfordThursday
September 183:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80[Dynamics of Large Networks](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/JLabstract.doc) [Mark Mortensen](http://www.mit.edu/~markm/index.html)
MITTuesday
September 3012:45-2:15 pm
KMC 5-75[Walking a Mile In Their Shoes: First-Hand Experience and Reflexive and Direct Cross-Site](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/MMabstract.doc) [Knowledge as Determinants of Effective Global Collaborations](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/MMabstract.doc) Claudia Perlich
IBM ResearchThursday
October 233:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80[Winner’s Report: KDD CUP Breast Cancer Identification](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/Perlich_final-cup-kdd08.pdf) [Paul Leonardi](http://www.soc.northwestern.edu/leonardi/)
Northwestern UniversityThursday
October 303:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80[Talking about Technology: A Comparative Study of Framing, Appropriation and Network Change in Organizations](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/PLabstract%5B1%5D.doc)

[Michael Macy](http://www.soc.cornell.edu/faculty/macy.html)
Cornell UniversityThursday
November 133:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80[Social Contagions and Online Networks](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Macyabstract.doc) [Ravi Aron](http://mymarshall.usc.edu/portal/subapps/digitalmeasures/faculty.jsp?surveyId=48896)
University of Southern CaliforiaThursday
November 203:45-5:15 pm
KMC 5-80[The Market for Complexity Arbitrage: Process Structure and Market Outcomes in Offshore Sourcing Of Services – Evidence from Field Research](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/abstract.doc)

**SPRING 2008****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/** **LOCATION****TITLE** Gueorgi Kossinets CornellThursday, January 24th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network Deepa Mani UT AustinTuesday, February 5th12:30 pm, KMC 5-80Outsourcing Discount or Paradox?
An Analysis of Long-Term Abnormal
Stock Returns across Outsourcing Contracts Marc Smith MicrosoftTuesday, February 12th12:30 pm, KMC 5-80Visualizing the Signatures of Social Roles in
Online Discussion Groups Sonny Tambe WhartonThursday, February 14th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Job Hopping, Knowledge Spillovers, and the
Information Technology Revolution Yiling Chen
Yahoo!Thursday, February 21th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Strategic Behavior and Combinatorial Betting
in Prediction Markets Rica Gonen Yahoo!Thursday, March 6th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Truthful Adaptive Sponsored Search Mechanisms Emmanuelle Vaast LIUWednesday, April 9th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Trans-situated learning:
Supporting a network of practice with an
information infrastructure Kartik Hosanagar
WhartonThursday, April 17th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80Blockbuster Culture’s Next Rise or Fall:
The Impact of Recommender Systems on
Sales Diversity

**FALL 2007****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/** **LOCATION****TITLE** [Ron Burt](http://gsbportal.chicagogsb.edu/portal/server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_0_314_215_0_43/http%3B/gsbportal.chicagogsb.edu/Facultycourse/Portlet/FacultyDetail.aspx?&min_year=20064&max_year=20083&person_id=30400) University of ChicagoThursday, September 20th4:15 pm, KMC 5-90Social Capital Process Clues fromNetwork Spillover
[Paper](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0708/092007Burt.pdf) [Lada Adamic](http://www-personal.umich.edu/~ladamic/)
University of MichiganThursday, October 18th4:15 pm, KMC 5-90Expertise Sharing Dynamics in Online Forums
[Paper](http://www2007.org/paper516.php) [Lorin Hitt](http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~lhitt/)
U. Penn, WhartonThursday, October 25th4:00 pm, KMC 5-90Offshoring, Skills, and Employment:
Evidence from Information Technology Workers, 1995-2006
[Paper](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0708/102507Hitt.pdf) Usama Fayyed
Yahoo!Thursday, November 1st4:15 pm, KMC 5-90Inventing the New Sciences of the Internet:
Towards Understanding the New Interactive Media [Claudia Perlich](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~cperlich/) IBMThursday, November 8th4:15 pm, KMC 5-90KDD-CUP goes NETFLIX: Modeling Movie Ratings using Poisson Regression
[Paper](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0708/110807Perlich.pdf) [Tridas Mukhopadhyay](http://public.tepper.cmu.edu/facultydirectory/FacultyDirectoryProfile.aspx?id=102) CMUThursday, November 15th4:15 pm, KMC 5-90How do Project Managers’ Skills Affect Project Success in IT Outsourcing?
[Paper](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0708/111507Mukhopadhyay.pdf) [David Parkes](http://http/www.eecs.harvard.edu/~parkes/) HarvardThursday, November 29th4:15 pm, KMC 5-90Explorations in Computational Mechanism Design

**SPRING 2007****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/ LOCATION****TITLE** Alok Gupta University of
MinnesotaThursday, January 25th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Predicting Bidders’ Willingness**
**to Pay in Online Multi-Unit**
**Ascending Auctions:**
**Analytical and Empirical Insights**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/gupta012507.pdf) David Blei Princeton UniversityThursday, February 1st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Modeling Science: Topic Models**
**of Scientific Journals**
**and Other Large Text Databases** [**Paper 1**](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/BleiLafferty2006a.pdf)**,** [**Paper 2**](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/BleiLafferty2006.pdf)**,** [**Paper 3**](http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/papers/BleiNgJordan2003.pdf)**,** [**Video**](http://sterntv.stern.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/IOMS/Feb07/020107-IS_Research_Seminar.rm) Eric Overby Emory UniversityThursday, February 8th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Electronic vs. Physical Market**
**Mechanisms: Evaluating Multiple**
**Theories in the Wholesale**
**Automotive Market** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/overby020807.pdf)**,** [**Video**](http://sterntv.stern.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/faculty/panos/6123/020807-panos-6123.rm) Rahul Telang Carnegie Mellon UniversityThursday, February 15th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Empirical Analysis of Mobile**
**Voice and SMS Service:**
**A Structural Model**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/telang021507.pdf) **,** [**Video**](http://sterntv.stern.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/faculty/panos/6124/021507x-panos-6124.rm) Andrew McAfee
Harvard Business SchoolThursday, March 1st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Is There Evidence that IT**
**Matters?:**
**Recent Changes in the**
**Competitive Dynamics of US Industries**
**and their Association**
**with IT Intensity**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/mcafee030107.pdf) **,** [**Video**](http://sterntv.stern.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/faculty/panos/6126/030107-panos-6126.rm) Brian Davison LehighThursday, March 8th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Contextual Link Analysis for**
**Web Search**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/davidson030807.pdf) **,** [**Video**](http://sterntv.stern.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/faculty/panos/6127/030807x-panos-6127.rm) Stu Feldman
IBMThursday, March 29th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Research Directions in Services** [**Video**](http://sterntv.stern.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/faculty/panos/6130/032907-panos-6130.rm) Kevin Crowston
Syracuse UniversityThursday, April 5th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**The bug fixing process in**
**proprietary**
**and Free/Libre Open**
**Source Software:**
**A coordination theory analysis**
[**Paper 1**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/crowston040507_1.pdf) **,** [**Paper 2**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/crowston040507_2.pdf) **,** [**Video**](http://sterntv.stern.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/faculty/panos/6131/040507-panos-6131.rm) Christos Papadimitriou
UC BerkeleyThursday, April 12th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**The Complexity of Computing a**
**Nash Equilibrium**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/papadimitriou041207.pdf) **,** [**Slides**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/nyustern.ppt) **,** [**Video**](http://sterntv.stern.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/faculty/panos/6132/041207-panos-6132.rm) Erik Brynjolfsson
MIT**Monday,** **April 16th****12:30 pm,** **KMC 4-120****Goodbye Pareto Principle,**
**Hello Long Tail**
[**Paper**](http://ssrn.com/abstract=953587) Erik Brynjolfsson
MIT**Wednesday,** **April 18th****4:15 pm,** **KMC 5-85****IT, Productivity, and**
**Organizational Capital** Lars Bo Jeppesen
Copenhagen School of BusinessThursday, April 26th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Lead Users as Facilitators of**
**Knowledge Sharing in a**
**Community Setting** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/jeppesen042607.pdf)

**FALL 2006****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/ LOCATION****TITLE** [Paul Carlile](http://smgnet.bu.edu/mgmt_new/profiles/CarlilePaul.html) Boston UniversityThursday, September 21st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**The Challenge of Novelty in Distributed**
**Innovation Systems:**
**Stretching from OSS to Toyota** [John Moody](http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/~moody/) ICSI BerkeleyThursday, September 28th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Direct Reinforcement Learning:**
**Application to Games and Finance**
[**Paper 1**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/092806_1.pdf)**,** [**Paper 2**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/092806_2.pdf) [Christos Faloutsos](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~christos/) Carnegie Mellon UniversityThursday, October 5th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Data Mining Using Fractals and Power Laws** [**Paper 1**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/100506_1.pdf)**,** [**Paper 2**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/100506_2.pdf)**,** [**Paper 3**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/100506_3.pdf) [Glenn Ellison](http://econ-www.mit.edu/faculty/index.htm?prof_id=gellison)
MITThursday, October 12th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Taxes, Geography, and Online-Offline Competition**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/101206.pdf) [Ritu Agarwal](http://www.smith.umd.edu/faculty/ragarwal/index.html)
University of MarylandThursday, October 26th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Online Infomediaries and Price Discrimination:**
**Evidence from the Autoretailing Sector** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/102606.pdf) [David Pennock](http://dpennock.com/)
Yahoo! IncThursday, November 2nd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Information and Complexity in Securities Markets** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/110206.pdf) [Sumit Sarkar](http://www.utdallas.edu/~sumit/)
UT DallasThursday, November 9th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Resource Allocation Policies for Personalization**
**in Content Delivery Sites** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/110906.pdf) [Ramayya Krishnan](http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/rk2x.html) Carnegie Mellon UniversityThursday, November 16th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**On Software Diversification, Correlated Failures**
**and Risk Management**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/111606.pdf) [Michael Baye](http://php.indiana.edu/~mbaye/)
Indiana UniversityThursday, November 30th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Brand and Price Advertising in Online Markets**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS0607/113006.pdf)

**FALL 2005****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/ LOCATION****TITLE**[Ivan Png](http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~ipng/) of National U. of SingaporeThursday, September 8th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Consumer Privacy and Marketing**
**Avoidance** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/090805.pdf)[Sanjeev Dewan](http://web.gsm.uci.edu/~sdewan/) of UC IrvineThursday, September 15th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Investigating the Risk-Return**
**Relationship** **of Information**
**Technology Investment:** **Firm-Level Empirical Analysis** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/091505.pdf)[Alex Tuzhilin](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~atuzhili/) of New York UniversityThursday, September 22nd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Building and Querying Large**
**Modelbases** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/092205.pdf)[Junghoo Cho](http://oak.cs.ucla.edu/~cho/)
of UCLAThursday, September 29th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Search Engines Considered**
**Harmful: In Search of an**
**Unbiased Web Ranking** [**Paper 1**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/09290501.pdf) [**Paper 2**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/09290502.pdf) [**Paper 3**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/09290503.pdf)Keith Hampton of Annenberg School
for Communication, U. PennThursday, October 6th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**The Everyday Use of New**
**Technologies:** **Transforming**
**Social Networks,**
**Locally and Globally?**[John Morgan](http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/rjmorgan/Curriculum%20Vitae.htm)
of UC BerkeleyFriday, October 14th11:00 am, KMC 5-80**Estimating Firm-Level**
**Demand at a Price Comparison**
**Site:** **Accounting for Shoppers**
**and the Number of Competitors** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/101405.pdf)Aleksandra Mojsilovic,
Bonnie Ray,
&amp; Samer Takriti
of IBM ResearchThursday, November 3rd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Managing Risk Exposure in**
**a Services Business**Mayuram Krishnan
of University of MichiganThursday, November 10th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**The Effect of Information**
**Technology Investments**
**on Customer Satisfaction:**
**Theory and Evidence**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/111005.pdf)[Evgeniou Theodoros](http://www.insead.com/facultyresearch/tm/evgeniou/)
of INSEADThursday, November 17th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Adaptive Choice-based**
**Conjoint Analysis for**
**Online Market** **Research Using Machine**
**Learning and Optimization**
[**Paper 1**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/111705-01.pdf) [**Paper 2**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/111705-02.pdf)[Amy Greenwald](http://www.cs.brown.edu/people/amygreen/#)
of Brown UniversityThursday, December 1st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Bid Determination in**
**Simultaneous Auctions**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/120105.pdf)

**SPRING 2006****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/ LOCATION****TITLE**[Kunsoo Han](http://ids.csom.umn.edu/faculty/phds/khan/resume.htm) University of MinnesotaThursday, February 2nd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Economic Contributions of IT Outsourcing:**
**An Industry-Level Analysis** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/020206.pdf)[Karim Lakhani](http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www/) MITWednesday, February 15th4:15 pm, KMC 3-120**Broadcast Search in Scientific and**
**Technical Problem Solving:**
**Finding Solutions from the Periphery** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/021506.pdf)[Pamela Hinds](http://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/people/core/hinds.shtml) Stanford UniversityThursday, February 16th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**High Viscosity Knowledge**
**Sharing in Global Work: The Role of Affective Bonds**[Mohammad Mahdian](http://research.microsoft.com/~mahdian/) MicrosoftTuesday, February 21st12:30 pm, KMC 8-170**Theoretical Challenges in the Design of**
**Advertisement Auctions** [**Paper 1**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/022106_1.pdf) [**Paper 2**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/022106_2.pdf) [**Paper 3**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/022106_3.pdf)Gerald Kane Emory UniversityThursday, February 23rd4:20 pm, KMC 3-120**Casting the Net: Towards a Theory of**
**Multimodal Knowledge Networks** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/022306.pdf)[Sinan Aral](http://web.mit.edu/sinana/www/) MITTuesday, February 28th12:30 pm, KMC 5-80**Information, Technology and Information**
**Worker Productivity:Task Level Evidence** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/022806.pdf)[Samer Faraj](http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/dit/faculty/faraj.html) University of Maryland  **CANCELED**[Victor Lavrenko](http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/~lavrenko/) University of MassachusettsTuesday, March 7th12:30 pm, KMC 5-80**A Generative View of Relevance**[Jonathan Kelner](http://theory.csail.mit.edu/~kelner/) MITThursday, March 9th4:20 pm, KMC 3-120**A Randomized Polynomial-Time**
**Simplex Algorithm for Linear**
**Programming** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/030906.PDF)[Prabhakar Raghavan](http://theory.stanford.edu/people/raghavan/) Yahoo! ResearchThursday, March 23rd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Query Incentive Networks** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/032306.pdf)[V. Sambamurthy](http://www.bus.msu.edu/staff/staff.cfm?name=smurthy) Michigan State UniversityThursday, March 30th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Complementarities between**
**Supply Chain Processes** **and**
**Information Technologies:**
**The Impacts on Performance**
**of Manufacturing Firms** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/033006.pdf)[Il-Horn Hann](http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~hann/) University of Southern CaliforniaThursday, April 6th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Risk Averse Bidding in**
**Name-Your-Own-Price Channels**[John King](http://www.si.umich.edu/people/faculty-detail.htm?sid=220) University of MichiganThursday, April 13th4:15 pm, KMC 3-60**Information Systems, Enterprise**
**Transformation, and the**
**Future of Higher Education**[Barrie Nault](http://www.haskayne.ucalgary.ca/faculty/facultywebpages/nault/) University of CalgaryThursday, April 20th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Complementarities between**
**Supply Chain Processes** **and**
**Information** **Industry Level**
**Supplier-Driven IT Spillovers** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/042006.pdf)[Ravi Bapna](http://www.sba.uconn.edu/users/rbapna/) University of ConnecticutThursday, April 27th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Do Market Characteristics**
**Impact the Relationship between** **Retailer Characteristics and Online Price?** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/042706.pdf)[Hsinchun Chen](http://ai.bpa.arizona.edu/hchen/) University of ArizonaThursday, May 4th2:00 pm, KMC 5-85**Intelligence and Security**
**Informatics for International**
**Security:** **Information Sharing and Data Mining**[Gautam Ray](http://www.utexas.edu/research/eureka/faculty/view.php?pid=3144) UT AustinThursday, May 11th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**The Interaction between**
**Knowledge Codification** **and** **Knowledge Sharing Network** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20052006/051106.pdf)

**SPRING 2005****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/ LOCATION****TITLE** [Paul Resnick](http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick/)
University of MichiganThursday, January 27th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Eliciting Informative Feedback:** **The Peer-Prediction Method** [PDF](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20042005/0127.pdf) [Abraham Seidmann](http://www.ssb.rochester.edu/fac/Seidmannav/)
University of RochesterThursday, February 3rd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Analyzing the Simultaneous Use of Auctions** **and Posted Prices for ON-Line Selling** [PDF](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20042005/0203.pdf) [Chris Dellarocas](http://ccs.mit.edu/dell/)
University of MarylandThursday, February 10th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Strategic Manipulation of Internet** **Opinion Forums:** **Implications for** **Consumers and Firms** [PDF](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20042005/0210.pdf) [Zan Huang](http://eller.arizona.edu/~zhuang)
University of ArizonaThursday, February 17th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Graph-based Analysis for** **E-commerce Recommendation** [PDF 1](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20042005/0217-01.pdf) [PDF 2](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20042005/0217-02.pdf) [Brian Pentland](http://www.msu.edu/~pentlan2/)
Michigan State UniversityThursday, February 24th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Designing Routines** [PDF](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20042005/0224.pdf) [Sunil Mithas](http://www-personal.umich.edu/~smithas/)
University of MichiganThursday, March 3rd4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Effect of Information Technology** **on Customer Satisfaction** [PDF](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20042005/0303.pdf) **\*CANCELED\*** [Haim Mendelson](http://gobi.stanford.edu/facultybios/bio.asp?ID=104)
Stanford University *\*department wide seminar*Tuesday, April 5th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Differentiation, R&amp;D Investment**
**and Vertical Integration** [Ulrike Schultze](http://faculty.cox.smu.edu/uschultze.html)
Southern Methodist UniversityThursday, April 14th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Incorporating Self-Serve Technology** **into Co-Production Designs** [PDF](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/IS20042005/0414.pdf) [Wanda Orlikowski](http://ccs.mit.edu/Wanda.html)
MIT *\*department wide seminar*Thursday, April 21st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**Scaffolding Work: Taking Technology** **Seriously in Studies of Organizations** [Karim Lakhani](http://web.mit.edu/lakhani/www/karimlakhanibio.html)
MITThursday, April 28st4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**The Primacy of the Periphery in Open** **Source Software Communities** [Vijay Gurbaxani](http://web.gsm.uci.edu/~gurbaxan/) UC IrvineThursday, May 5th4:15 pm, KMC 5-80**The Value of Information Systems Outsourcing** **Arrangements: An Event Study Analysis**

[Seminars before 2005](http://oz.stern.nyu.edu/seminar)