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2003

New Research Initiatives at SIMS
Economics of Peer-to-Peer Systems

2002

Current Research at SIMS
Economics and Information Security
Human-Computer Interaction

2001

Webmining
Trolling for data on the World Wide Web.

2000

Regulating on the Technological Edge
How can telecommunications policy deal with the rapid advances in technology?
E-Commerce and the Changing Terms of Competition
Sponsored by BRIE, the Fisher Center and IGCC. Held at Berkeley April 28-29, 2000.

1999

Workshop on E-commerce Taxation
A one-day meeting on the economics of e-commerce taxation, organized in conjunction with the Burch Center for Tax Policy, and Deloitte and and Touche.
Images and visualization
A technical seminar on images, visualization, and information management.
The Legal and Policy Framework for Electronic Commerce
This meeting, co-sponsored with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology provided an opportunity to assess the progress that has been made in achieving the goals set forth in the Magaziner report.

1998

Lead, Follow, or Get Out of Way: Incentives to Innovate in Advanced Infrastructure
This workshop, also organized with Professor Michael Katz, investigated incentives by ILECs and CLECs to invest in broadband infrastructure.
Automatic Clustering and Classification
This workshop examined recent progress in clustering and categorization of textual information.
The Impact of Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code
This conference, co-sponsored with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, was organized by SIMS faculty member Pam Samuelson, to explore the implications of UCC 2B on licensing of intellectual property.
Organization of information
This workshop is concerned with techniques for organizing information, such as the information contained on a large Web site.

1997

Convergence or Collision? Telecommunications Regulation and the Internet
This workshop, co-organized with Professor Michael Katz of the Haas School of Business and former Chief Economist for the FCC, was primarily concerned with local access charges for Internet usage.

1996

Collaborative Filtering
Collaborative filtering is a technique for making recommendations by matching up people with similar opinions. This was one of the first workshops held on the topic; one outgrowth was a special section of the Communications of the ACM devoted to "recommender systems" in March, 1997.