Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University Information Systems Research Seminar Series: 2001-2002 The Information Systems Research Seminar is typically held on Thursday afternoons, from 4:15 to 5:45 in room 5-75 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'd like to participate in the seminar, get details about current or past talks, or join the announcement mailing list, contact Julia Mills. Current semester's schedule

Schedule for Fall 2001 Date Speaker Topic (brief) Time and Place Thursday, September 20th note change in day Eric Johnson Columbia University Search, Purchasing and Behavioral Economics on the Web abstract - paper   4:15 - 5:45 p.m. KMC 5-75 Tuesday, September 25th note change in day Chris Dellarocas MIT and New York University Economic Efficiency of Online Reputation Mechanisms abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. KMC 5-75 Thursday, September 27th No meeting: Yom Kippur Thursday, October 4th Roy Radner New York University Viscous Demand abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. KMC 5-75 Thursday, October 11th Lorrie Faith Cranor AT&T Labs Developing Online Privacy Standards abstract - background paper - related resources 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. KMC 5-75 Thursday, October 18th joint IS/Marketing Dina Mayzlin Yale University Promotional Chat on the Internet abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. KMC 5-75 Thursday, October 25th Ramayya Krishnan Carnegie-Mellon University Decision-Theoretic Design of Shopbots abstract - background paper 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. KMC 5-75 Thursday, November 1st Michael Davern New York University Information Environments and Human Behavior Over Time - abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. KMC 5-75 Thursday, November 8th Andrew B. Whinston University of Texas, Austin Shill Bidding in English Auctions abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. KMC 5-75 Wednesday, November 14th note day of week Balaji Padmanabhan University of Pennsylvania Personalization from Incomplete Data abstract - paper 4:00 - 5:30 p.m. KMC 5-75 Thursday, November 22nd No meeting: Thanksgiving Thursday, November 29th joint IS/Statistics Foster Provost New York University Tree-Induction vs. Logistic Regression: A Learning Curve Analysis abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. KMC 5-75 Thursday, December 6th Avi Bernstein New York University Intelligent Assistance for the KD Process abstract - paper 4:15 - 5:45 p.m. KMC 5-75