Microsoft Research Launches Facebook Game to Research Game Theory on an Unprecedented Scale
(source: http://microsoft-news.com/microsoft-research-launches-facebook-game-called-project-waterloo/) Microsoft Research has recently unveiled a game that has been developed for Facebook, a popular social networking website trafficked by more than 800 million active users. The game is called “MSR Project Waterloo,” which, as implied by it’s title, is a war game in which two players allocate 100 troops among 5 different territories, […]
Retailers Aim to Clear Stock of Tablets
Since the release of Apple’s iPad more than 2 years ago, a handful of other PC and smartphone developers have jumped into the market to produce similar products priced at $499. Even at the same matching price point, producers such as Samsung, Motorola, and RIM have struggled to find buyers for their devices. Hewlett Packard, […]
Spotibook
There are numerous musical services online which allow users to listen to their favorite artists free of charge via the insertion of “occasional”, they heavily stretch this word, advertisements into their music stream or for a small monthly fee remove these advertisements altogether. Some of these services are: Last.fm, Rdio, Spotify, and Grooveshark. Although all […]
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 […]
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