Economics
A Blueprint for a Better Digital Society
Panel: Computing Innovation and Diversity of Thought
Today, many of the technical products and services we use are created by one largely homogeneous group of people: men. That doesn’t make today’s technology bad or unhelpful. However, it does mean our society is…
You Can Lead a Horse to Water: Spatial Learning and Path Dependence in Consumer Search
We introduce a model of search by imperfectly informed consumers with unit demand. Consumers learn spatially: sampling the payoff to one product causes them to update their payoffs about all products that are nearby in…
Leading Science and Technology: India Next?
We all understand the importance of economic growth and social development programs for India. Do we consider research and innovation equally important? No… The talk will start with presenting reasons why India should aspire to…
Semiparametric Contextual Bandits
City Data Exchange and Edge Analytics: A case for an Open Stack
The Indian government is attempting an ambitious aspirational move to “smarten” India’s cities. We do a deep dive analysis of a recent RFP for the same, which has been put out by the city of…
