Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University Information Systems Research Seminar Series: 2004-2005 The Information Systems Research Seminar will meet about once every two weeks, on Thursday afternoons from 4:15 to 5:45, in room 5-80 at the Kaufman Managment Education Center. The seminar is co-sponsored by the Information Systems group of the Department of Information, Operations and Management Sciences, and CeDER: the Center for Digital Economy Research. The seminar features a mix of researchers and faculty members from NYU and other leading universities/research institutions. The talk is followed by a CeDER-sponsored reception between 6:00 and 7:00, where the discussion continues. If you're interested in presenting a talk in either our Fall 2004 or Spring 2005 sessions, contact Natalia Levina or Arun Sundararajan. If you'd like to attend the seminar, get details about current or past talks, or join the announcement mailing list, contact Julia Mills. Past seminars:     Spring 2004     Fall 2003    Spring 2003     Fall 2002     Spring 2002     Fall 2001 Other group seminars:     OM     Statistics/OR

Preliminary schedule of speakers (as of early September -- this will change) for Fall 2004 Date Speaker Topic (brief) Time/Place Thursday, September 9th Michael Smith Carnegie-Mellon University Interest-Based Self-Organizing Peer-to-Peer Networks abstract - paper - related paper   4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Tuesday, September 21st Jerry Friedman Stanford University Importance Sampling: An Alternative View of Ensemble Learning abstract department-wide seminar   4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-85 Tuesday, September 28th Ann Majchrzak University of Southern California Knowledge-Sharing Effectiveness in Distributed Teams abstract - paper   4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, October 7th Michael Kearns University of Pennsylvania Network Models and Algorithms for Game Theory and Economics   abstract - paper1 - paper2   4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, October 14th Mark Newman University of Michigan and the Santa Fe Institute Networks and Communities: Patterns of Connections in Complex Systems abstract - paper - economist article   4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, November 4th Pedro Domingos University of Washington Adversarial Classification abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, November 11th David Reiley University of Arizona Reserve Prices and Sniping: Evidence from Two Field Experiments on eBay abstract - paper 1 - paper 2. 4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, November 18th Gerardine DeSanctis Duke University The Language Games of Online Forums abstract - paper.   4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Thursday, December 9th Tunay Tunca Stanford University Network Software Security and User Incentives abstract   4:15 - 5:45pm KMC 5-80 Speakers scheduled for Spring 2005: Chris Dellarocas, Zan Huang, Haim Mendelson, Sunil Mithas, Wanda Orlikowski, Brian Pentland, Paul Resnick, Ulrike Schultze, Avi Seidmann.