Marshall Van AlstyneMarshall Van Alstyne
I'm a doctoral student in the Information Technology group at the MIT Sloan School of Management working
in the area of information economics. My dissertation work concerns pricing
information goods and positioning information products. This also spills over
into information networks and the effects on social stratification of
redistributing information. Following graduation, I'll join the
faculty of the School of Information at
the University of Michigan, which is developing a new program on the
information economy.
Before ignoring Dante's advice to graduate students (of abandoning all hope
-- and free time -- for entering here!), I worked in the artificial
intelligence groups at Martin Marietta and
at Lincoln Laboratory then also as a
technology management consultant for PA Consulting Group. Before that, I
studied computer science (and Doonesbury) at Yale.
Together with friends, I was also a founding partner of Cambridge Decision
Dynamics (CDD), a software and consulting firm that provides decision support
tools for higher education.
If you would like copies of these papers, you may download them directly or send me e-mail at the address below. All documents are either in PDF (portable document format) or Mathematica Notebook format. If you don't have a PDF or notebook reader, here's how you may download one for free from Adobe or from Wofram Research.
Note: Any of the documents provided on this page can be displayed with
one of these free packages. Each package, however is only a reader or an
output tool. The software vendor makes their money on the encoders and input
tools.
Adobe's PDF Reader may be downloaded from this site. Portable document
format allows you to exchange documents across platforms and across software
packages. Roughly 750K.
Mathematica Notebook
Reader may be downloaded from this site. Wolfram research produces software
to manipulate math symbols and perform numeric analysis. The results can
be displayed and animated with this tool. Roughly 450K.
Compression
Software for many machine types may be downloaded from this site.
Frequently,
files become extremely sluggish to transmit over low bandwidth lines. Software
found here helps to compress and expand files to facilitate transmission.
Program sizes will vary by machine but are roughly 350K.
RealAudio Sound Player may be
downloaded
from this site. With this software, you can listen to NPR in the background
while you work or retrieve other sound files. Roughly 450K.
MIT Sloan School 50 Memorial Drive, E53-308 Cambridge, MA 02139 Tel: 617-253-2970 Fax: 617-258-7579 Email: marshall@mit.edu
