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2026 3

  1. New lectures, podcasts, summer school videos
  2. May 26-29 at Columbia: Summer School on the Theory and Practice of Blockchain Consensus
  3. SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award

2025 4

  1. Israel AGT day in Weizmann — 29/1/2026
  2. 2025 Gödel Prize: Call for Nominations (Due April 11)
  3. Israel AGT Day 2025 on March 2nd at Hebrew U.
  4. Call for Nominations: 2024 SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award

2024 2

  1. IMS Program “Algorithmics of Fair Division and Social Choice”
  2. Summer School on Economic Theory and Computer Science, Jerusalem 23/6/24-27/6/24

2022 2

  1. 2023 SIGecom Test of Time Award — Call for Nominations
  2. CFP: SCW Special Issue on “Fair Public Decision Making”

2021 6

  1. 2022 ACM SIGecom Test of Time Award
  2. SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award
  3. WINE’21 Call for Papers
  4. NetEcon 2021
  5. The Stony Brook International Conference on Game Theory, July 5-8, 2021
  6. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: EC 2021 WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

2020 10

  1. ADFOCS 2020 (Market Design and Computational Fair Division)
  2. Suggestions for computer scientists submitting papers to JET
  3. Virtual EC 2020
  4. Guide to Virtual EC 2020
  5. The First Symposium on the Foundations of Responsible Computing Is Virtual [June 1st-2nd]
  6. Special Issue of JAAMAS on Fair Division
  7. SIGecom Announcement: EC 2020 will be virtual
  8. Call for Papers: The 2nd Workshop on Behavioral Economics and Computation
  9. Calendar of Virtual CS+Econ Seminars
  10. EC20 workshops and tutorials: call for proposals

2019 26

  1. New Book: Introduction to Multi-Armed Bandits by Alex Slivkins
  2. YoungEC Workshop in Tel-Aviv, 31/12/19-2/1/20
  3. Test of time award: call for nominations
  4. A Market for TCS Papers??
  5. Postdoc and full-time researcher positions in EconCS in MSR-NYC
  6. MSR internship opportunities in Economics/Economics and Computation
  7. EC’20 Call for Papers
  8. Videos from PapaFest
  9. Blind Folks and the Evolving Elephant – by Vijay Vazirani
  10. Highlights Beyond EC – Call for Nominations
  11. Matching Markets @ Simons: Driven by Theory, Driving the Economy
  12. SIGecom Dissertation Award — Call for Nominations
  13. GT postdoc positions in the Technion
  14. EC 2020 in Budapest
  15. 2020 Call for profiles of SIGecom job market candidates
  16. PapaFest schedule announced
  17. PapaFest (September 6-8 @ Columbia)
  18. Max Plank Summer School: Games, Brains, and Distributed Computing
  19. Workshop on Simplicity and Robustness in Complex Markets, Stony Brook University, July 11-12, 2019
  20. Learning in the Presence of Strategic Behavior (EC 2019 Workshop)
  21. 3rd Workshop on Mechanism Design for Social Good at EC ’19
  22. Call for Papers: Workshop on Behavioral Economics and Computation at EC 2019
  23. ACM SIGecom Elections
  24. Guest post: “Like a Swarm of Locusts…” (Vijay Vazirani)
  25. Upcoming Nomination Deadlines: Gödel, Knuth, and SIGACT Distinguished Service Award
  26. SIGecom Dissertation Award call

2018 19

  1. SIGecom Test of Time Award
  2. EC 2019 Call for Papers
  3. “Highlights Beyond EC” Session at EC 2019
  4. SIGecom Exchanges: call for profiles of 2019 job market candidates.
  5. Costis Daskalakis wins Nevanlinna Prize
  6. Social Choice and Zero-Sum Games
  7. FOCS’18 Call for Workshops and Tutorials
  8. Will quantum communication make us more cooperative?
  9. WINE 2017, a follow up
  10. Advice on Flying to Ithaca for EC’18
  11. EC’18 Early Registration Ends in Two Days
  12. NetEcon 2018 Call for Papers
  13. AGT mentoring workshop (AMW) at EC
  14. Combating harassment in TOC
  15. Call for Submissions: WADE Workshop at EC 2018
  16. Call for Submissions: MD4SG Workshop at EC 2018
  17. 2018 AGT Fest at EC: Call for Nominations
  18. Barbados Lectures on Complexity Theory, Game Theory, and Economics
  19. Call for Nominations: SIGecom Test of Time Award

2017 12

  1. Postdoc positions in the Israeli Center for Economics and Computation
  2. Call for Nominations: SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award
  3. Postdoc Accouncement: Microsoft Research NYC
  4. Wine 2017 Update
  5. WINE 2017 Announcement
  6. ITCS 2018 Announcement
  7. SIGecom Exchanges: call for profiles of 2018 job market candidates.
  8. Lessons from the FCC Spectrum Incentive Auction
  9. Call for Nominations: SIGecom Doctoral Dissertation Award
  10. MD4SG (Mechanism Design for Social Good) Workshop at EC’17
  11. EC conference deadline approaching
  12. YoungEC Workshop in Tel-Aviv

2016 10

  1. Twenty Lectures on Algorithmic Game Theory
  2. Congrats to Noam!
  3. Papadimitriou on ITCS 2017
  4. CFP: HCOMP 2016
  5. CFP: 12th Annual Ad Auctions Workshop
  6. CFP: Workshop on Economic Aspects of Cloud Computing
  7. CFP: Second Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory and Data Science
  8. Handbook of Computational Social Choice
  9. SIGecom Exchanges: call for profiles of 2017 job market candidates.
  10. NetEcon 2016 – Call for Papers

2015 18

  1. WWW Economics and Markets Track – Call for Papers
  2. The GEB special issue from STOC, FOCS, and SODA 2011!
  3. Call for nominations: Prize in Game Theory and Computer Science
  4. The 2016 CS-Econ Job Market Candidates
  5. NBER Workshop on Market Design (CFP)
  6. Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory and Data Science (Monday at EC and FCRC)
  7. John Forbes Nash, Jr.: 1928-2015
  8. Battle of the Students
  9. WINE 2015 Call For Papers
  10. SIGecom Exchanges: call for profiles of 2016 job market candidates.
  11. Mechanisms for the Masses
  12. CFP: Fifth Workshop on Social Computing and User-Generated Content
  13. CFP: Workshop on Social and Information Networks (In conjunction with EC’15)
  14. Choice Prediction Competition for Decisions under Risk and Ambiguity
  15. CFP: Workshop on Algorithmic Game Theory and Data Science (In conjunction with EC’15)
  16. Prize Announcements
  17. The Reverse AGT Workshop on Competition in Selection Markets
  18. AGT@IJCAI Workshop

2014 27

  1. Reverse AGT Workshop on Optimal Taxation (Harvard U, Monday, Nov 24, 1-4pm)
  2. Simons Semester on Economics and Computation
  3. NYCE Day Announcement
  4. ACM EC 2015 Call for Papers
  5. Tips for CS-Econ Students on the Business School and Operations Research Job Markets
  6. Announcing NYCE-2014
  7. A thank you to MSR/SVC
  8. WINE 2014 poster session
  9. Prior-Free Analysis of Digital-good Auctions and Beyond.
  10. SAGT 2014, 9/30-10/2, Patras, Greece
  11. The EC Academic Job Market
  12. Berthold Vöcking: 1967-2014
  13. EC early registration and tutorials
  14. Taking out the garbage, quasi-strict equilibrium, and PPAD
  15. Sperner’s Lemma hits the popular press
  16. COMSOC 2014 registration open
  17. AdAuctions Workshop deadline extended to April 27
  18. SAGT 2014
  19. Announcing EC 2014 Workshops
  20. EC 2014 accepted papers
  21. The Theory of Equilibrium Computation Has Come of Age
  22. Noam and I
  23. Final post and AGT course update
  24. Ariel Procaccia, blogger emeritus
  25. The Choices Are: Slick and Exponential, or Brute Force and Polynomial
  26. CFP: HCAGT workshop
  27. Duke’s new MS in Economics and Computation

2013 42

  1. How to not get rich from bitcoin
  2. CFP digest
  3. Thanksgiving special: Top five American peculiarities
  4. SigEcom Awards
  5. AGT course, weeks 5-7
  6. Author ordering
  7. AGT course (Weeks 3 and 4)
  8. Olympic badminton is not incentive compatible — revisited
  9. AGT lecture videos and notes
  10. Is it fun to be a professor?
  11. WINE’13 updates
  12. 2013 New York Computer Science and Economics (NYCE) Day
  13. WWW 2014: Internet economics Track
  14. On social welfare and distributive justice
  15. Alien journals
  16. Postdoc position at Tel Aviv University
  17. Scientific success as a fluke
  18. Game Theory in AI’s 10 to watch
  19. SAGT 2013 accepted papers
  20. WINE and dine in Harvard
  21. Game theory is useful, except when it is not
  22. Cake cutting: Not just cool titles
  23. Don’t miss SIGecom Exchanges 12.1
  24. NSF (actually) reviewing via social choice
  25. The science of the Pittsburgh real estate market
  26. Massive open online schools
  27. EC’13 registration is open
  28. Who really founded game theory?
  29. What’s the best paper at the interface of game theory and computer science published over the last decade?
  30. Should technical errors disqualify conference papers?
  31. ACM/AAAI Allen Newell Award
  32. The annual EC word cloud
  33. Visions of the Theory of Computing Conference
  34. Summer School on Matching Problems, Markets, and Mechanisms
  35. The rise and fall of my Erdos number
  36. Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day — April 26
  37. The economic Turing test
  38. Doing a PhD: Almost the best job in the world
  39. Nominations for Nevanlinna Prize
  40. Author-Pay Journals, Swimming Pools, and Brides
  41. First ACM India Doctoral Dissertation Award
  42. Tips on job market interviews

2012 58

  1. Announcement: Postdoc Positions in Israel
  2. Announcement digest
  3. Collaborative filtering and my younger self
  4. Memories of Summer: The Movie
  5. IMS (Singapore) program on algorithmic game theory and computational social choice
  6. Sandy and STOC
  7. Russell Crowe was wrong
  8. STOC Submissions: message from the PC Chair
  9. Annual Crowdsourced Jobs Post
  10. Workshop on The Economics of Web Search and Social Networks
  11. Al Roth and Lloyd Shapley
  12. Wildly cited algorithmic economics papers
  13. FOCS’12 workshop on Bayesian mechanism design
  14. Report from COMSOC 2012
  15. NYCE 2012
  16. CMU Summer School Recap, Part 5 (Ashlagi and Conitzer)
  17. Things a AGTEer Should Do At Least Once
  18. SIGecom Exchanges: Hot or Not?
  19. Pointers: WINE-12 + Medicare auctions + CCS
  20. CMU Summer School Recap, Part 4 (Vohra and Moulin)
  21. CMU Summer School Recap, Part 3 (Hartline and Daskalakis)
  22. CMU Summer School Recap, Part 2 (Blum and Daskalakis)
  23. CMU Summer School Recap, Part 1 (Yariv and Tardos)
  24. Rise of the journferences
  25. Fair division and the whining philosophers problem
  26. Olympic Badminton is Not Incentive Compatible
  27. The absolute rule of law at American universities
  28. Impartial division of scientific credit
  29. FOCS Accepted Papers and ITCS Call For Papers
  30. Game theory and the bomb
  31. Is game theory useful?
  32. Job market outcomes
  33. AGT summer school in Samos island, 14-21 July
  34. 2012 Gödel Prize awarded to 6 researchers in Algorithmic Game Theory
  35. Upcoming Conferences
  36. ACM EC Schedule Posted
  37. Yahoo’s loss is Microsoft’s gain
  38. CS/Econ in Operations Research
  39. I grade grad AI
  40. Electronic Commerce Workshop in Haifa, May 30, 2012
  41. EC 2012 Accepted papers
  42. Automatic Proof for Reimann’s Hypothesis?
  43. An insider’s guide to author responses
  44. Collective Intelligence 2012
  45. EC 2012 workshops
  46. Postdocs post
  47. Why I am not boycotting Elsevier
  48. Summer school on algorithmic economics
  49. John Nash’s Letter to the NSA
  50. STOC 2012 accepted papers
  51. EC’12 Innovations
  52. EC = MC^3
  53. Report from SODA 2012: Part 2
  54. Report from SODA 2012: Part 1
  55. Report from ITCS 2012
  56. World Congress of the Game Theory Society
  57. And the winner is…
  58. What’s in a name? A crowd!

2011 59

  1. Becoming a Group Blog
  2. Frontiers in Market Design: Matching Markets
  3. New book on Security, Game Theory and Algorithms
  4. New book: Computational Aspects of Cooperative Game Theory
  5. Social Choice and Welfare Meeting in Delhi
  6. NetEcon 2012
  7. Hanging out with Muthu: Algorithmic Mechanism Design
  8. The good things about journals
  9. The problem with journals
  10. 2012 Decentralization Conference
  11. ITCS 2012 Accepted Papers
  12. First Cambridge Area Economics and Computation Day
  13. Microsoft to invest $1.5m in Technion e-commerce research
  14. Best Ph.D. Thesis in Computational Game Theory
  15. INFORMS 2011 cluster on auctions and markets
  16. WINE 2011 Accepted Papers
  17. SODA 2012 Accepted papers
  18. TEAC is open for business
  19. Copenhagen Workshop on New Trends in Mechanism Design
  20. Peter Cramton on Medicare Auctions
  21. New York Computer Science and Economics day — 16.9.2011
  22. Why do we grade?
  23. FOCS 2011 Accepted Papers
  24. SAGT 2011 accepted papers
  25. Postdoc in Economics of Privacy at UPenn
  26. AGT in USC and Multi-agent post-docs
  27. Back from FCRC
  28. ACM Transactions on Economics and Computation
  29. June 2011 issue of SIGecom Exchanges
  30. Report from iAGT workshop
  31. Reshef Meir Reports from AAMAS’11
  32. AAMAS’11 Proceedings
  33. SAGT 2011 and WINE 2011
  34. Ad-Auction Workshop in Tel-Aviv, June 19th
  35. Tutorial on Crowdsourcing
  36. Conference on Auctions, Market Mechanisms and Their Applications
  37. Theory of Computation as a Lens on the Sciences
  38. iAGT workshop, May 22-26 in Jerusalem
  39. March 2011 SigEcom Exchanges
  40. Report on AGT semester I: Talks with Agendas
  41. Google Grant on Electronic Markets and Auctions
  42. EC 2011 Accepted Papers
  43. EC 2011 Workshops
  44. Center of Rationality postdoc positions
  45. So what is AI?
  46. Xtranormal advertisement for multi-unit auction paper
  47. Yahoo’s Key Scientific Challenges
  48. Peter Cramton’s Market Design Blog
  49. Strategies for using Bibliometrics
  50. MSc in Computation and Game Theory in Liverpool
  51. STOC 2011 Accepted Papers
  52. AMS Feature Column on Price of Anarchy
  53. Vincent Conitzer Wins Computers and Thought Award
  54. Speed-Price Equilibrium
  55. Is Game Theory (Artificially) Intelligent?
  56. IPAM workshop on AGT Schedule
  57. AGT and AI
  58. Report from ICS 2011
  59. AGT/E 2010 year in review

2010 97

  1. On Getting Slashdotted
  2. Panel on AGT in ICS
  3. Progress in Algorithms Beats Moore’s Law
  4. Lacan Reasons about Knowledge
  5. Grand Challenges in Economics
  6. New papers on Auctions
  7. Computation of Correlated Equilibira (cont.)
  8. New Forms of Scholarship
  9. Goodbye Printed Proceedings
  10. Revealed Preferences and Complexity
  11. Will Mechanical Turk Grow Up?
  12. AGT on TCS Stack-Exchange
  13. Computation of Correlated Equilibrium for Concise games
  14. Interstellar Trade
  15. Århus Center for Foundations of Electronic Markets
  16. Game Theory Conferences in Israel
  17. Computer Scientists and Braess’s Paradox
  18. Medicare Auction Update
  19. ICS 2011 accepted papers
  20. Petition on Medicare auction
  21. WINE 2010 accepted papers
  22. SODA 2011 Accepted Papers
  23. Mark Wilson reports from COMSOC
  24. NetEcon 2010
  25. AGT/E publication venues
  26. New York Computer Science and Economics Day
  27. Swaprava Nath reports on Saarbrücken AGT course
  28. Pricing Parking Spots in SF
  29. Algorithmic Game Theory in Jerusalem
  30. NSF ICES grant program
  31. CACM article on Mechanism Design and CS
  32. Yu Jiajin reports on Shanghai AGT Summer School
  33. Reputation for Human Computation
  34. AGT Workshop in Tehran
  35. Online Dating
  36. IPAM workshop on AGT
  37. Regret in Markets
  38. ICS 2011 deadline approaching
  39. WINE 2010
  40. NSF call for proposals on CS/ECON
  41. Report to NSF on CS/ECON
  42. FOCS 2010 accepted papers
  43. “TCS overflow”
  44. SAGT 2010 accepted papers
  45. CACM article on AGT
  46. Xerox Research Position in Grenoble
  47. COMSOC accepted papers
  48. TCS Conferences — again
  49. EC10 and current trends in algorithmic game theory
  50. SIGecom exchanges 9.1
  51. ESA accepted papers
  52. Recent Developments in Mechanism Design (conference)
  53. Artificial Life, and beyond
  54. Reshef Meir reports on AAMAS
  55. Workshop on Advances in Algorithmic Game Theory
  56. Papers from AAMAS posted
  57. Eva Tardos To Give Erdos Lectures
  58. Internet Advertising: Theory and Practice
  59. The Future of Journalism
  60. Ad Auction Workshop Accepted Papers
  61. COMSOC and SAGT submission deadlines
  62. Notes on Computational Social Choice
  63. New CS/Econ blog: Constructive Economics
  64. Paper Recommendation Experiment
  65. Facebook PhD Fellowships Announced
  66. New paper on “Multi-Unit Auctions: Beyond Roberts”
  67. ICALP 2010 Accepted Papers
  68. Google research awards
  69. In Quest of Truth and Justice
  70. Lecturships in Liverpool
  71. Postdoc positions at Jerusalem
  72. Advanced Max Planck Course on AGT
  73. Arrow Theorem and Ultrafilters
  74. Congratulations to Tim Roughgarden
  75. AGT/E Grad Schools
  76. Bayesian Computer Scientists
  77. CS ∩ Econ = Algorithmic Economics?
  78. Co-located with EC…
  79. Non-archival conferences?
  80. EC accepted papers
  81. SAGT 2010
  82. COMSOC 2010 and ICS 2011
  83. Behavioral and Quantitative GT workshop
  84. Trillion $ problems
  85. Algorithmic Game Theory in 1957
  86. New paper: Budget Feasible Mechanisms
  87. Buzzing
  88. STOC accepted papers
  89. NBER Market Design conference
  90. Wikipedia course assignments
  91. Workshop in New-Zealand, 18-19/2/2010
  92. Report from SODA
  93. AGT summer school in Shanghai
  94. The Valiant brothers report from ICS
  95. Vazirani: Seeking Combinatorial Algorithms for Convex Programs
  96. Facebook Graduate Student Fellowship
  97. My $1/day Adwords Account

2009 107

  1. AGT decade in review
  2. Workshop on Decentralized Mechanism Design
  3. New paper: average-case manipulation of elections
  4. Michal Feldman Reports from WINE 09
  5. Report from Israel CGT seminar
  6. STACS accepted papers
  7. Experiments on Mechanical Turk
  8. Economists and Complexity
  9. Grading a game theory course
  10. The Computational Complexity of Pure Nash
  11. Nemmers conference in honor of Paul Milgrom
  12. Circulating Announcements
  13. Israeli Computational Game Theory Seminar
  14. Facebook Hiring in AGT
  15. DARPA Netwrok Challenge
  16. ICS accepted papers
  17. LPUs: game theory or psychology?
  18. Guest Guest post from FOCS
  19. Not a Journal
  20. Theoretical Economics as Math
  21. SAGT 2009
  22. Outsourcing and CS education
  23. Supremum and mathematical education
  24. Evalautaion of CS papers for GEB
  25. RoboZZle and the Essence of Algorithms
  26. Back to School
  27. New Penn Program in Market and Social Systems Engineering
  28. New papers by Brendan Lucier
  29. Communication Complexity of Mixed-Nash Equilibria
  30. SIEPR & Microsoft Conference On Internet Economics
  31. A rant on academic output
  32. Google Ad Exchange
  33. New paper on “Goal Oriented Communication”
  34. Fisher Model of Markets
  35. WINE 2009 Accepted Papers
  36. Report from Algo 2009
  37. STOC 2010 CFP
  38. CS and Economics — different attitudes
  39. SODA 2010 accepted papers
  40. “Open Access” Journals are Advertising
  41. New Paper: A computational view of Market Efficiency
  42. Collaborative Software Architecture?
  43. Communication Complexity of Reaching Equilibrium
  44. Assorted links
  45. HTML considered educational
  46. Math Blogosphere
  47. Assorted Tweets from Lance
  48. An Observation, Truthful Approximation, and the ArXiv
  49. New paper: Approximation Mechanisms Without Money
  50. In praise of conferences and trends
  51. More polymath projects
  52. Lunar landing and war
  53. Ariel Procaccia reports from IJCAI
  54. Auction Algorithm for Bipartite Matching
  55. New paper on cake-cutting
  56. Shahar Dobzinski reports from EC
  57. SAGT 2009 accepted papers
  58. Report from ICALP
  59. Report from Euro 2009
  60. FOCS 2009 accepted papers
  61. New Game-Theory blog
  62. Preference elicitation or manipulation?
  63. Will work for attention
  64. Ad auctions workshop schedule
  65. Stream of Auctions
  66. Jeff Ely’s Micro-Economics Course
  67. Tsinghua Innovations in Computer Science
  68. The Advertising Industry
  69. Workshop: Search, Mechanism Design and the Internet
  70. Revenue vs. Efficiency in Auctions
  71. Approximate Nash
  72. Prisoner’s Dillemma Reality show
  73. Google wave unveiled
  74. Secret of Googlenomics
  75. Papers from Market Design Meeting
  76. Postdoc positions in Algorithmic Game Theory
  77. Assorted Links
  78. Readerless publications
  79. Correlated equilibria — some CS perspectives
  80. Auction Prescriptions
  81. New paper: randomized auctions with budgets
  82. Open Access Conference Proceedings
  83. Moshe Babaioff Reports from BAGT 6
  84. Google Reserach on Twitter
  85. New paper: Bidding on Configurations in Ad auctions
  86. A new randomized mechanism for multi-unit auctions
  87. On Vardi’s question on conferences
  88. Two new conferences in May
  89. eBay and antiquities looting
  90. Taking theory too literally
  91. New paper: Pricing Randomized Allocations
  92. EC 2009 accepted papers
  93. SAGT deadline approaching
  94. Academic Blog Communities
  95. More PPAD-complete problems
  96. Experimental Algorithmic Game Theory?
  97. ICALP 2009 Accepted papers
  98. Hardness of Finding Equilibria in Arrow-Debreu Markets
  99. Bay area Algorithmic Game Theory Symposium
  100. From Arrow to Fourier
  101. EC 2009: get ready for reviewing your reviewers
  102. AGT and practice
  103. Interest-based advertising in Google
  104. The attention economy for scientific work
  105. The AGT Blogosphere
  106. What is “Algorithmic Game Theory”?
  107. Hello world!