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Monthly Archive August, 2006

Decision Science News acquires domain name

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LEGERDEMAIN Last year, DSN was grateful when the eight-figure-endowment Decision Science News Foundation won the bidding war for Decision Science News Tower (pictured). This year, we are pleased to announce that The Foundation has extended additional funds to provide a private domain name: decisionsciencenews.com News readers who use newsreaders will be glad to know there […]

The Cool Numbers of Peter Fader

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FIND THE WONDER IN A NUMBER The story goes that British mathematician G. H. Hardy was visiting the great Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan in the hospital. According to Hardy: I had ridden in taxi cab number 1729 and remarked that the number seemed to me rather a dull one, and that I hoped it was […]

When you are bored of London you are bored of life

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LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS OFFERS DECISION SCIENCE POSITION There is a Lectureship or Senior Lectureship in Decision Sciences/Operational Research at LSE, but hurry because the closing date for receipt of applications is 18 August 2006. The Operational Research Group has been established at LSE for over 50 years and has an international reputation in Decision […]

How do conflicts increase?

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ESCALATION One time DSN host and all around smart person Dan Gilbert has a typically well-written and insightful piece in the New York Times op-ed section:He who cast the first stone probably didn’t. It’s a topic that doesn’t get much play in the Judgment and Decision Making literature, which is strange because retaliation is a […]