Preston McAfee joins Microsoft as Chief Economist
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STARTING TODAY
Preston McAfee, former decade-long editor of the American Economic Review, former Caltech professor, and all around micro-economist extraordinaire, starts today as Chief Economist of Microsoft.
[TechNet] Microsoft hires Preston McAfee as chief economist
We at Decision Science News are excited to be publishing with Preston again, picking up on the research we did with Sid Suri and him back in the Yahoo Research days:
- Goldstein, Daniel G., R. Preston McAfee, & Siddharth Suri. (in press) The Wisdom of Smaller, Smarter Crowds. Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’14)
- Goldstein, Daniel G., R. Preston McAfee, & Siddharth Suri. (2013). The cost of annoying ads. Proceedings of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013).
- Goldstein, Daniel G., R. Preston McAfee, & Siddharth Suri. (2012). Improving the effectiveness of time-based display advertising. Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’12) [Winner: Best Paper Award]
- Goldstein, Daniel G., R. Preston McAfee, & Siddharth Suri. (2011). The effects of exposure time on memory of display advertisements. Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC’11)
After Yahoo, Sid and I went to Micrsoft and Preston went to Google. We’re all very happy to be reunited!
