Posted in Tidbits on Dec 31st, 2009
The foiled underpants bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, raises anew the question of how to spot a terrorist. Clear hindsight obscures how hard a task this is. After the 2001 attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., the German authorities analyzed data for some 8 million potential terrorists living in Germany by a variety of [...]
Posted in News on Dec 24th, 2009
SIPTA Workshop on Uncertainty The Society for Imprecise Probabilities: Theories and Applications will hold a Workshop on Uncertainty at Columbia University on April 17th of 2010, following the Synthese Conference on epistemology and economics that will take place at Columbia University on April 15th and 16th. We expect the workshop to feature a mixture of [...]
Posted in News on Dec 6th, 2009
On April 15th and 16th of 2010, the Synthese Conference will take place at Columbia University. The 2010 edition of the Synthese Conference will focus on the theme of epistemology and economics. Recent years have seen an increasing amount of interaction between epistemology and economics: traditional topics in epistemology, such as the analysis of knowledge, [...]
Posted in News on Dec 5th, 2009
Konstanz, September 2-4, 2010 Organized by Franz Huber (Konstanz) and Branden Fitelson (UC Berkeley)
Posted in News on Dec 3rd, 2009
The first part of a special issue on the foundations of the decision sciences is now available in the Springer Site for the journal. It contains articles by Jonathan Baron; Luc Bovens and Wlodek Rabinowicz; Itzhak Gilboa, Offer Liberman and David Schmeidler; Isaac Levi, Patrick Maher, Nils-Eric Sahlin, Annika Wallin and Johannes Persson; Dov Samet,Teddy Seidenfeld, Mark J. Schervish [...]
A nice discussion over at Junk Charts about the “Climategate” scandal, which boils down to a self-inflicted wound from speaking too loosely about scaling time series data.
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