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 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
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason
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jmm@umich.edu
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University of Michigan
School of Information
4322 North Quad
105 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2112

First name
Jeffrey
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Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason is the Dean of 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 the founding director of the Program for Research on the Information Economy at U-M and is the co-founder of the Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions (STIET) 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, American Express, 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.

Last name
MacKie-Mason
Department
School of Information, and Department of Economics, and Ford School of Public Policy

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