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ACM SIGecom Business Meeting at EC’10

ACM SIGecom Business Meeting at EC’10. Thanks to our sponsors. What is SIGecom?. Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce http://sigecom.org/ Founded 1999 by Stuart Feldman; Elected officers, 2003 11th year of SIG and 11th EC Conference 300+ members

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ACM SIGecom Business Meeting at EC’10

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  1. ACM SIGecomBusiness Meeting at EC’10 Thanks to our sponsors

  2. What is SIGecom? Association for Computing MachinerySpecial Interest Group on Electronic Commercehttp://sigecom.org/ Founded 1999 by Stuart Feldman; Elected officers, 200311th year of SIG and 11th EC Conference 300+ members Main activities: EC Conference & Exchanges Newsletter …dedicated to the advancement of electronic commerce, principles and practice. As the leading computing-centric professional organization in the field, SIGecom seeks to promote the informed development of commerce automation technology, employing the best available engineering methods and economic understanding.

  3. What is ACM? • “Association for Computing Machinery” • Non-profit computer society • Supports computer science research (SIGs), practice, education, and policy • Well run, competent CEO, staff, solid finances even through recession • Understands incentives! • SIGs keep conference profit • SIGs share in Digital Library revenue for SIG publications

  4. Who are we? • David Pennock, ChairJoan Feigenbaum, Vice ChairAmy Greenwald, Treasurer • SIGecom Exchanges Editor, Vincent Conitzer • Dan Reeves, Information Director

  5. Who are we? • David Pennock, ChairJoan Feigenbaum, Vice ChairAmy Greenwald, Treasurer • (Second) term ends June 2011 • SIGecom Exchanges Editor, Vincent Conitzer • New editor named! (*) • Dan Reeves, Information Director • Dan has new role (*); Call for volunteers • From Dan’s TimePie: 31.4 +/- 5.07 min/wk (*) More later

  6. Thanks CombineNet Facebook NEW! Google MicrosoftYahoo!Harvard ACM • David Parkes, General ChairChris Dellarocas, Moshe TennenholtzPC Chairs • Record attendance! 1st > 200 • Rahul Sami, Workshop Chair • Jason Hartline, Tutorials Chair • Yiling Chen, Jenn Wortman VaughanLocal Arrangements • Sven Seuken, Haoqi ZhangStudent Co-Organizers • Ann Marie King, Webmaster • PC members, Invited speakers,Submit-ers, Contributors, Participants!

  7. Announcing EC 2011 • San Jose, CA, June 4-11, 2011 • Yoav Shoham, General ChairYan Chen, Tim RoughgardenProgram Co-Chairs

  8. Congrats2009 ACM Awards John Riedl, Past PC ChairACM Fellow Tim Roughgarden, next PC ChairThe Grace Murray Hopper AwardFor his research combining computer science and game theory to analyze network routing among self-interested parties Andrew Goldberg, Past PC, authorACM Fellow

  9. Electronic newsletterwww.sigecom.org/exchanges/ Published 2/year since 2000 Surveys, letters, conf reports, book reviews, original research Announcing new editor! Yiling Chen, Harvard Daniel Reeves, Puzzle Ed. Rejuvenation under Vince Conitzer 2007-2010; Publishing timely and topical surveys from area leaders; Editor’s puzzle.+ Website revamp by Dan Reeves Past Editors 07-10: Vince Contizer 06-07: William Walsh 04–06: Amy Greenwald 00–03: Peter Wurman

  10. ACM Conference on Electronic Commerce 1999- Premier forum for CS researchon commerce and economics Strengths • Rigorous technical standards, reputation • Participation by top CS researchers in Theory, AI; academia & industry • Advancing young leaders’ careers • Attendance increasing • Participation and financial support from Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!,... • Solid finances • Bridging disciplines: economics/incentives with computation/technology • Serving a growing discipline: Cornell, GTech, Harvard, Northwestern, Stanford, Umich, UPenn; Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!; AGT, AMMA, BAGT, GEB, EI, NYCE, SAGT, WINE, WWW

  11. Finances Discretionary fundsper member: $231.00

  12. CSEcon Ecosystem • Repeat co-located workshops at EC • Ad Auctions 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010 (90+ registered!) • TAC 200?, 2010 (50 registered) • NetEcon 2006, 2007, 2009 ; ~80 people • Prediction Markets 2007, 2008 • “In cooperation” conferences • RecSys, SAGT, Web Science, BQGT • Growth in field: “endorsed” events, gov, industry • AMMA,BAGT,COMSOC,NYCE,WINE, WWW • Journals, books: AGT, GEB, EI • NSF funding • Ebay, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo! • Short term goals • Best dissertation award • Journal of Economics and Computation, Vince Conitzer

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