ESports: The Battle for the Emerging Market
A new type of competitive multiplayer videogame has emerged in recent years: the MOBA. A MOBA is a game where there are two teams of five, competing against each other. Each side has a base, and armies spawn at this base and push outwards in lanes towards the other team’s base. One team wins if […]
The Continuing Evolution of Facebook
http://www.cnn.com/2011/09/26/tech/social-media/facebook-users-will-revolt-cashmore/index.html?hpt=hp_c2 In less than a decade’s time, the Facebook user base has surpassed 800 million accounts. Since its launch in 2004, Facebook has become the beacon of the social networking arena, allowing individuals from all over the world to connect, socialize and remain in touch. Facebook users tend to be passionate about their experience and […]
World War II: Triadic Closure in its Strongest Sense – How did this “game” play out?
We all know that World War II was one of the most devastating and terrible time periods in world history. Some of us have had grandparents and great-grandparents battle to their deaths; some of our relatives have lived to tell the tale. Either way, the historical details have been discussed over and over again all […]
Marriage: The Ultimate Bargaining Game
Throughout any marriage there is continuing shifts in bargaining between spouses. The simple saying “I do” is just the beginning of the bargaining that arises within a marriage. By not viewing marriage as a binding agreement but instead a negotiation that can be broken depending on the value to each spouse, one can model the […]
When Things Get Nashty
Today, people around the world are experiencing crisis after crisis. “Bank crisis,” “budget crisis,” and “government shutdown crisis” are all over TV and affecting the lives of many in different countries. After the economy hit bottom early 2009, many of us started to cheer for the recovery; in fact since mid-2010, the American economy seemed […]
Toppling a Giant
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/bezos-portrays-pocket-sized-fire-as-service-not-tablet-in-ipad-challenge.html For most of the 1990’s, Apple was the second-place holder in the world of personal computing. Since then, Apple has risen to the top by re-positioning itself as an innovative, sleek, and modern company with products such as the iMac, iPod, and more recently the iPad. In addition, Apple was led on a large-scale marketing campaign […]
Game Theory and the UN Climate Talks
Game theory is an important tool used in a variety of fields. It is used to address situations in which outcomes of a person’s options depend both on their decisions and the decisions of the other people with whom they are interacting. Some of the fields that game theory is used in include economics, political […]
Facebook: The real prisoner’s dilemma
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/21/facebook-in-prison-south-carolina_n_838250.html There are very few places left that are outside of the grasp of facebook’s social network. One would think that a maximum security prison would be one of those remaining places where you can’t update a status or poke a friend, but in the age of cellphones that is no longer the case. This […]
Microsoft’s Project Waterloo: How the Facebook Community May Contribute to Game Theory
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/researchgames/ A phenomenon has occurred in recent years in which internet networking sites, such as Facebook, have made it possible for individuals to reconnect with individuals from the past, keep in touch with current friends and acquaintances, and meet people that they may not otherwise meet. Not only are they able to “meet” and talk, […]
Exposing the Con
It should go without saying that almost everyone wants money without having to work for any of it. Think of how amazing it would be if you were suddenly endowed with a multi-million dollar fortune, it would take away all the stress of school (If you even decide to stay there), job hunting, finding a […]
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