I will describe our efforts to create a hub for predictions, data, games, and infographics about the 2012 US Presidential election and other news, sports, and entertainment topics. As part of the project were are building a "fantasy politics" game: a true combinatorial prediction market with over a quadrillion outcomes where you can buy and sell nearly anything about the election from "Obama will win both Florida and Ohio" to "There will be a path of blue from Canada to Mexico". Read more at http://bit.ly/combopmfreak
David Pennock is a Principal Researcher and Assistant Managing Director of Microsoft Research in New York City, where he leads a group focused on algorithmic economics. He has over sixty academic publications relating to computational issues in electronic commerce and the web, including papers in PNAS, Science, IEEE Computer, Theoretical Computer Science, Algorithmica, Electronic Commerce Research, Electronic Markets, AAAI, EC, WWW, KDD, UAI, SIGIR, ICML, NIPS, INFOCOM, SAINT, ACM SIGCSE, and VLDB. He has authored two patents and ten patent applications. In 2005, he was named to MIT Technology Review's list of 35 top technology innovators under age 35. Prior to his current position at Yahoo!, Dr. Pennock worked as a research scientist at NEC Laboratories America, a research intern at Microsoft Research, and in 2001 served as an adjunct professor at Pennsylvania State University. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan, an M.S. in Computer Science from Duke University, and a B.S. in Physics from Duke. Dr. Pennock's work has been featured in Discover Magazine, New Scientist, CNN, the New York Times, the Economist, Surowiecki’s "The Wisdom of Crowds", and several other publications.