Center for Digital Economy Research

The Workshop on Information Systems and Economics (WISE) will be held in Phoenix, AZ on December 14-15, 2009.
The 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems took place at NYU Stern on October 22-25, 2009.
The Conference on Information Systems and Technology (CIST) took place in San Diego, CA on October 10-11, 2009.
The Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN) was held at NYU Stern on September 25th-26th, 2009.
The Managing Data Risk Workshop was held at NYU on April 24, 2009.

IBM gifts CeDER $200,000.

Sinan Aral wins Best Overall Paper Award at the 2008 International Conference on Information Systems.

The 20th Annual Workshop on Information Systems and Economics took place on December 13-14, 2008, in Paris, France.

The NYU Global Delivery of Professional Goods Conference took place May 30 and 31, 2008, at the NYU Stern Henry Kaufman Management Center in conjunction with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.

The first NY Computer Science and Economics day (NYCE day) was held on October 3, 2008, at the NY Academy of Sciences.

The fourth annual symposium on Statistical Challenges in eCommerce Research (SCECR) took place at NYU Stern on May 18 and 19, 2008. The theme of this year's symposium is Social Networks and User-Generated Content.

On May 9, 2008, the Center for Digital Economy Research held a Workshop on Teaching Information Technology in business curricula. Approximately 45 academics from the nation's top IS programs were in attendance.

INFORMS 2008: Arun Sundararajan and his former student Gal Oestreicher-Singer won best paper award for their paper titled "The Visible Hand of Recommendation Networks."

Vasant Dhar and student Elaine Chang find that blogs can predict album sales in their recent paper “Does Chatter Matter? The Impact of User-Generated Content on Music Sales”.
CeDER working paper "Deriving the Pricing Power of Product Features by Mining Consumer Reviews" by Nikolay Archak, Anindya Ghose, and Panos Ipeirotis is an SSRN "all time hit" in the category of entrepreneurship and marketing.
Sinan Aral wins the 2007 ACM SIGMIS award at the annual conference on Information Systems in Montreal (ICIS 2007). Anindya Ghose also was a runner up for the ISR 2007 best paper award.
An opinion piece co-authored by Professor Arun Sundararajan was published on September 5, 2007, in the Economic Times, India's leading business newspaper. The authors argue that government intervention, in the form of company subsidies, is needed to create the third generation of mobile phone standards and technology (3G) for India. Also required is the quick implementation of network infrastructure, adoption of 3G capable devices, and content and applications to be delivered to these devices.
Vasant Dhar and Arun Sundararajan publish their article Information Technologies in Business: A Blueprint for Education and Research in the June 2007 issue of Information Systems Research.
CeDER Director Vasant Dhar featured in Bloomberg Magazine discussing artificial intelligence and trading. Watch the interview.
Professor Natalia Levina recieves IBM's Shared University Research Award to conduct research on vendor's strategy, management, and performance in global outsourcing.
Professors Ghose and Ipeirotis awarded the Microsoft Virtual Earth Award.
Professors Ghose and Ipeirotis awarded prestigious NSF CAREER grants.
Professor Aral wins 2006 ICIS Best Overall Paper Award for "Information, Technology and Information Worker Productivity: Task Level Evidence" and best paper in the IT Business Value track for "Which Came First, IT or Productivity? The Virtuous Cycle of Investment and Use in Enterprise Systems"
NYU-IBM Workshop on Global Sourcing took place on January 26th, 2007 at the NYU Stern Henry Kaufman Management Center. The workshop was organized by the Center for Digital Economy Research in collaboration with the IBM T.J. Watson Research. It involved about 45 invited participants including leading IS scholars conducting cutting edge research in the area of Global Offshoring and Outsourcing as well as faculty members and graduate students from NYU and affiliate universities and researchers from IBM.
IS doctoral student Nikolay Archak wins the 2006 TopCoder Collegiate Challenge Component Design competition.
Tulin Erdem joins CeDER as Director of Research.
CeDER, together with the IBM Data Governance Council and BITS Financial Services Roundtable, hosted the Data Governance and Risk Calculation Forum at NYU Stern on Friday, October 31, 2006.
The Greater New York Area DB/IR Day took place at NYU Stern on Friday, October 6th, 2006. This a semi-annual conference was aimed to bring together interested parties in the New York Metropolitan area for one day of interaction and discussion.
June 26, 2006 - Assistant Professor of Information Systems Panagiotis (Panos) Ipeirotis received the "Best Paper" Award at the SIGMOD 2006 Conference for his research paper "To Search or to Crawl? Towards a Query Optimizer for Text-Centric Tasks," coauthored with Eugene Agichtein (Microsoft Research), Pranay Jain (Columbia University) and Luis Gravano (Columbia University). SIGMOD is one of two premier database conferences; SIGMOD 2006 received 446 research paper submissions, out of which 58 (or 13%) were accepted for publication.
Microsoft awarded NYU Stern Professors Anindya Ghose and Panagiotis Ipeirotis a Live Labs Search Award for their research proposal entitled, “Combining Econometric and Text Mining Approaches for Measuring the Effect of Online Information Exchange.” Professors Ghose and Ipeirotis received one of the 12 specially funded awards, following a highly competitive selection process in which Microsoft chose their work from more than 180 submissions. Microsoft Live Labs is a partnership between MSN and Microsoft Research that centers on applied research for Internet products and services. This award consists of a significant unrestricted cash gift for one year and access to a proprietary dataset of a few million search queries detailing various aspects of consumer search on the Internet.
Professor Anindya Ghose awarded the 2005 ACM SIGMIS Doctoral Dissertation Award for his work entitled "The Strategic Impact of Electronic Secondary Markets on Firm Performance, Market Structure and Social Welfare."
January 19, 2005 - NYU Stern Professor Natalia Levina recieves Alfred P. Sloan Industry Fellowship.