Game theory
Computer science tackles 30-year-old economics problem
June 25, 2012
MIT researchers generalize Nobel winner’s work on single-item auctions to auctions involving multiple items.
Also labeled: Economics, mechanism design
Game theory, in the real world
May 1, 2012
MIT economist Parag Pathak engineers practical solutions to complicated education problems.
Streamlined rules for robots
June 8, 2011
New algorithms make it easier to write rules for distributed-computing systems, such as networks of sensors, servers or robots.
Also labeled: Control systems, Markov decision processes
Dueling algorithms
March 18, 2011
If software companies design their algorithms with the sole intention of outperforming each other, the customer can be the loser.
How wise are crowds?
November 16, 2010
By melding economics and engineering, researchers show that as social networks get larger, they usually get better at sorting fact from fiction.
Andreas Schulz on algorithmic game theory and transportation
October 7, 2010
Presented by Transportation@MIT
What computer science can teach economics
November 8, 2009
Constantinos Daskalakis applies the theory of computational complexity to game theory, with consequences in a range of disciplines.
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