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Podcast discussing the STIET research program with Jeff MacKie-Mason and Tom Finholt
STIET video showing lifesize, uncompressed fiber-optic video conference from UM Atkins room to WSU via OptIPortalUniversity of Michigan
School of Information
3246B SI North
1075 Beal Ave
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2112
Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the School of Information. He is also the Arthur W. Burks Collegiate Professor of Information and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, a professor in the Department of Economics and a professor in the School of Public Policy. He was also the founding director of the Program for Research on the Information Economy at U-M and is the founder of the Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions (STIET) doctoral fellowship program. He served as Director of STIET from 2001-2008.
MacKie-Mason is well known for his pioneering work on the economics of the Internet. He also works on the economics of other information technologies and of competition in high-technology markets. His recent work focuses on the economics of information content and usage, including projects on user-contributed content, spam reduction, peer-to-peer resource sharing, and incentives to increase information security. He was the research director for the first large-scale field experiment on electronic commerce for electronic access to scholarly journals (PEAK). His more than 80 publications appear in scholarly journals in the areas of economics, computer science, library science, operations research, and other fields, reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of his research.
He has consulted to AT&T, Sun Microsystems, Hewlett-Packard, America OnLine, EDS, Bell Atlantic, Intergraph, GTE, Compuware, SBC, and other information technology companies.
Dean MacKie-Mason currently sits on the Advisory Committee for the CISE (Computer Science) Directorate at the National Science Foundation, and on the Advisory Committee for the SBE (Social, Behavioral, and Economics) Directorate at NSF. He has also advised the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, and other government agencies.
His teaching includes courses on incentive-centered design for information systems, information policy, the economics of information, information in choice and learning, and antitrust.
