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  • Improved Beta Version of the Scholars' Web Sites Project Recently Launched

    By Emily Ware, November 13 2009

    IQSS proudly announces the launch of the beta version of the Scholars’ Web Sites Project.  This IQSS-sponsored project represents a paradigm shift in how the personal web sites of academic scholars are created and maintained.

  • Facilitating Efficient Land Assembly

    Submitted by Scott Duke Kominers on October 28, 2009 - 12:33pm

    E. Glen Weyl and Scott Duke Kominers have developed a rigorous model of the "holdout problem" which encompasses land takings and a host of other applications such as corporate acquisitions, mutual relations between firms, and patent pool formation.

  • Top 10 Reasons Gary King was Made a University Professor

    By Ann Starkey, November 10 2009

    Our top ten reasons why Gary King was made a University Professor, as delivered by Matt Cox at the IQSS party for Gary on Monday, November 9, 2009:

    10. His social experimentation knows no bounds. Not only does he have the most tweets per day of any Harvard senior faculty, he also re-follows all the Twitter spam bots--"just in case."

  • Three Degrees of Influence

    By Ann Starkey, November 4 2009

    In Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives, IQSS Faculty Associate Nicholas Christakis and coauthor James Fowler describe research into the ways in which our social networks influence us.