In September 2005, Julie L. Morrison et al. published an article in the journal BMC Bioinformatics called “GeneRank: Using search engine technology for the analysis of microarray experiments.” This article can be found here: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/6/233
Every cell in an organism has the same genes, but different genes are “turned on” and “turned off” in different cells. […]

We are in the midst of the subprime mortgage crisis, and the housing bubble has burst. People are placing blame on many variables - from the predatory practices of mortgage lenders, unscrupulous analysts, to lack of regulation in the markets - but could the housing bubble have come from the idea of information cascades?
The […]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/02/business/02view.html?pagewanted=print
Throughout the course, we have now studied game theory and auctions which all deal with situations in which people are faced with decisions to make. The article above is about information cascade and herding behavior which also deal with situations that people face when they have to make an important decision based on useful but […]

Although e-Bay is “essentially a second price auction,” the mechanics of the system creates an environment that doesn’t follow the implications of a second price auction. The proxy bidding allows each bidder to bid up to his max bid, which, in most cases, should be his true value. The price that he pays would […]

There have been a few posts over the past couple months that have touched on blood doping and steroid use by professional athletes (see references to these posts below). It is true that in cycling, track and field, baseball, and other professional sports, each athlete is faced with a prisoner’s dilemma where it would […]

Digg is a social content website with community-based news articles. “It combines social bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical, democratic editorial control.” News stories and websites are submitted by users, and then promoted to the home page through a user-based ranking system. This system differs from the hierarchical editorial system that many […]

On his website’s blog, John Breslin included an article he helped author for IEEE magazine titled “The Future of Social Networking on the Internet.” The link to the above mentioned post is here .
In the article, Breslin points out that while the internet has worked well connecting people for many different purposes, flaws remain in […]

Ivy League schools now have a new area to compete in - that of online gaming, via GoCrossCampus, or GXC. Developed by four undergrads at Yale and one at Columbia, GXC is a strategy territory-conquest game, much like Risk. The difference is that the battlefield consists of college campuses across the USA. […]

http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20041020_siliconvalley.htm
The Silicon Valley is located south of San Francisco in beautiful nothern California. In addition to year-long sunny, 80 degrees weather, the Silicon Valley is also the home of the DotCom boom, Stanford University and three public high schools that rank top 50 in the nation.

The Silicon Valley is also known for its ridiculous […]

http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/do_not_track_legislation_could_change_ad_landscape.php
The article starts by mentioning online advertising including the possible Do Not Track bill and Facebook advertising/privacy issues. The article then gets into push vs. pull marketing. With the Do Not Call list and Spam filters in e-mail the only form of push marketing left is junk mail. This is why online […]