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Seminars

We hold a weekly Economics and Computer Science research seminar each semester.   For Spring 2003, we meet biweekly from 10:30-12PM at MD123.

Date Agenda
2/12/03 * Jeff Shneidman (abstract)
* Discuss papers for rest of term

2/26/03 * David Parkes talk on "Preference Elicitation in Proxied Multiattribute Auctions" (abstract)

3/19/03 * David Parkes talk on Strategyproof Infrastructures

* Papers to read before meeting:
1) Marjory S. Blumenthal and David D. Clark, Rethinking the design of the Internet: The end to end arguments vs. the brave new world. Version published in ACM Transactions on Internet Technology. http://ana.lcs.mit.edu/anaweb/PDF/Rethinking_2001.pdf
2) Robert Braden, David Clark, Scott Shenker, and John Wroclawski, Developing a Next-Generation Internet Architecture, Internal Whitepaper, July, 2000 http://ana.lcs.mit.edu/anaweb/PDF/NewArch_wp_v1.pdf
3) Planet-Lab http://www.planet-lab.org/pdn/pdn02-001.pdf
4) Tussle in Cyberspace: Defining Tomorrow's Internet http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigcomm/sigcomm2002/papers/tussle.pdf
4/23/03 Senior thesis presentations by Kyna Fong and David Krych (abstract)
5/7/03 Senior thesis presentation by Sean MacLeod (abstract)

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