{"id":4654,"date":"2014-06-02T11:44:06","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T15:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=4654"},"modified":"2014-06-02T13:42:15","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T17:42:15","slug":"preston-mcafee-joins-microsoft-chief-economist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=4654","title":{"rendered":"Preston McAfee joins Microsoft as Chief Economist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STARTING TODAY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/5807.Preston.jpg-250x0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4655\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/5807.Preston.jpg-250x0.jpg\" alt=\"5807.Preston.jpg-250x0\" width=\"250\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Preston McAfee, former decade-long editor of the <em>American Economic Review<\/em>, former Caltech professor, and all around micro-economist extraordinaire, starts today as Chief Economist of Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p>[TechNet] <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.technet.com\/b\/microsoft_blog\/archive\/2014\/06\/02\/microsoft-hires-preston-mcafee-as-chief-economist.aspx\">Microsoft hires Preston McAfee as chief economist<\/p>\n<p><\/a>We at Decision Science News are excited to be publishing with Preston again, picking up on the research we did with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sidsuri.com\">Sid Suri<\/a> and him back in the Yahoo Research days:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Goldstein, Daniel G., R. Preston McAfee, &amp; Siddharth Suri. (in press) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangoldstein.com\/papers\/goldstein_mcafee_suri_smart_crowds_ec2014.pdf\">The Wisdom of Smaller, Smarter Crowds<\/a>. Proceedings of the 15th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC&#8217;14)<\/li>\n<li>Goldstein, Daniel G., R. Preston McAfee, &amp; Siddharth Suri. (2013). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangoldstein.com\/papers\/goldstein_mcafee_suri_annoying_ads.pdf\">The cost of annoying ads<\/a>. <b>Proceedings of the 23rd International World Wide Web Conference (WWW 2013)<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Goldstein, Daniel G., R. Preston McAfee, &amp; Siddharth Suri. (2012). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangoldstein.com\/papers\/goldstein_mcafee_suri_Improving_Time_Based_Advertising_ec2012.pdf\">Improving the effectiveness of time-based display advertising<\/a>. <b>Proceedings of the 13th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC&#8217;12) [Winner: Best Paper Award]<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Goldstein, Daniel G., R. Preston McAfee, &amp; Siddharth Suri. (2011). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dangoldstein.com\/papers\/Goldstein_McAfee_Suri_Ad_Exposure_EC11.pdf\">The effects of exposure time on memory of display advertisements<\/a>. <b>Proceedings of the 12th ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce (EC&#8217;11)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>After Yahoo, Sid and I went to Micrsoft and Preston went to Google. 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