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STIET News

 In the News: Recent STIET PhD Eytan Bakshy's paper "The Role of Social Networks in Information Diffusion" is getting a lot of attention -- see Tech Crunch and Slate.

 News Note: WSU STIET faculty member, Robert Reynolds, STIET fellow Leonard Kinniard-Heether, and REU student Tracy Liu won first place in the IEEE Super Mario Competition and best student paper prize at the 2010 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence in Barcelona, Spain.

 Press Release -- World Wide Research Reshaping the Sciences and Humanities, edited by William H. Dutton and Paul W. Jeffreys includes contributions by STIET faculty member, Steve Jackson, and STIET fellow, Cory Knobel.

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Full Name
Kurt DeMaagd
email address
demaagdk@umich.edu
Personal Home Page
http://webuser.bus.umich.edu/demaagdk/
First name
Kurt
Personal Information

Kurt DeMaagd was a STIET fellows from 2002-2007 and received his PhD in Business in 2007. He is now an Assistant Professor at Michigan State Universtiy. His primary research interest is on the use of information and communications technologies (ICT) in developing economies, particularly in the new models and methods necessary to study and understand the value of ICT in emerging markets. He is also interested in how users participate in and manage online communities. Before becoming a STIET fellows, he was the cofounder of Slashdot.org, a large online community; and was on the board of directors of the Perl Foundation, which owns Perl, a major open source programming language.

Publications

Ackerman, M., K. DeMaagd, A. Swenson, S. Cotterill. (2003). I-DIAG: From Community Discussion to Knowledge Distillation. AIII Spring Symposium on Agent Mediated Knowledge Management, Stanford University.
Ackerman, M., K. DeMaagd, A. Swenson, S. Cotterill et al. (2003). I-DIAG: From Community Discussion to Knowledge Distillation. Communities and Technologies, Amsterdam.
Moore, S. and K. DeMaagd (2004). Investigating the Value of Information and Computational Capabilities by Applying Genetic Programming to Supply Chain Management. Formal Models of Electronic Commerce. S. Kimbrough.
Moore, S. and K. DeMaagd (2004). Using a Genetic Program to Search for Supply Chain Reordering Policies. Genetic Programming Theory Practice 2004 Workshop, Ann Arbor, MI.
Wu, H., M. Gordon, , K. DeMaagd (2004). Document Co-Organization in an Online Knowledge Community. ACH/CHI.
Wu, H., M. Gordon, K. DeMaagd, N. Bos (2003). Link Analysis for Collaborative Knowledge Building. ACM/Hypertext, Nottingham, England.
Wu, H., M. Gordon, K. DeMaagd, W Fan. (2004). "Mining Web Navigations for Intelligence." Decision Support Systems Forthcoing.
Wu, H., M. Gordon, K. DeMaagd , W. Fan (2002). Principal Clusters Analysis: Analyzing Web Navigation Using a Multivariate Technique. International Conference on Information Systems, Barcelona, Spain, AIS.

Last name
DeMaagd
Department
Assistant Professor Michigan State University

History

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