Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences (IMBS)

CONFERENCE ON "THE WISDOM OF CROWDS"
APRIL 18 & 19, 2013
Social Science Plaza A, room 2112

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Speakers


William Batchelder - Professor of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
"Cultural Consensus Theory"

David Budescu - Professor of Psychology, Fordham
"Identifying Expertise and Using it to Extract the Wisdom of the Crowds"

Stefan Herzog -  Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Human Development Center for Adaptive Rationality
"The Wisdom of Crowds Within a Single Mind"

Michael Lee - Professor of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
"Applying cognitive models to combine the wisdom of the crowd"

Casey Lichtendahl - Assistant Professor, Business Admin., University of Virginia
"The Wisdom of Competitive Crowds"

David Pennock - Principal Researcher and Asst. Managing Director, Microsoft
"Crowd Sourcing Predictions"

Jack Soll - Assoc. Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke
"The Wisdom of Small Crowds"

Mark Steyvers - Professor of Cognitive Sciences, UCI
"The Wisdom of Crowds in the Aggregation of Rankings"

Thomas Wallsten - Professor of Psychology, University of Maryland
"How Wise is the Crowd: Aggregating, Improving and Evaluating Probabilistic Forecasts of Future Events"

Robert Winkler - Professor, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University