Michael Giberson We’ve raved about Pandora here a number of times (KP search for “Pandora”). The New York Times recently reported on the surprising fact of Pandora: unlike a lot of other internet music startups, it survived. In fact, lately the company has prospered and is talking about going public. It turns out that the …
Michael Giberson On March 18, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission acted on the Tres Amigas project’s two regulatory requests submitted last October. Tres Amigas has proposed to link the large scale power interconnections covering the eastern and western halves of the United States with the ERCOT interconnection in Texas. The New Mexico-based project would facilitate …
Tres Amigas Gets Half a Loaf from Ferc, Tips on Gaining Other Half Read More »
Michael Giberson At his Oddhead Blog, Yahoo! researcher David Pennock reports several links of interest for folks working at the intersection of the fields of economics and computer science and then asks what this subfield should be called. He finds several terms in use for projects or at conferences: Algorithmic Economics, Market Algorithms, Electronic Commerce, …
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Lynne Kiesling If you are currently working as a state regulator or a member of regulatory staff, then I cannot encourage you strongly enough to apply to attend this May’s Institute for Regulatory Law & Economics: The IRLE is sponsored by the University of Colorado’s Silicon Flatirons Center to sharpen the tools required for principled …
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Lynne Kiesling Hey students! If you are a KP reader and you are looking for an experience this summer with good brain candy that’s a lot of fun, then check out the week-long summer seminars offered by the Institute for Humane Studies. There are a range of topics and focus areas, but most seminars involve …
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Lynne Kiesling If you are in Washington, DC and interested in electricity policy, then I hope I will see you at this upcoming event at the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday afternoon. Why is the process of restructuring and institutional change so different in electricity than in other infrastructure industries? What is the current status …
Lynne Kiesling Hi folks! I am getting ready to crawl out from under my winter quarter rock; I have been teaching three classes this quarter, and it’s been frenetically busy. I’m also working on some stuff that I’m not quite ready to talk about in public, so I’ve been indulging in some self censoring. Plus, …
Michael Giberson David Pennock hears another another tick of the clock in the countdown to web sentience. [In 2003] we trained a computer to answer questions from the then-hit game show by querying Google. We combined words from the questions with words from each answer in mildly clever ways, picking the question-answer pair with the …
Fish Leg Counts: What the Web Knows and Doesn’t Know Read More »
Michael Giberson “PACE” stands for “Property Assessed Clean Energy.” It is a financing tool through which cities sell bonds and then loan the proceeds to property owners to improve building energy efficiency. The loans are repaid via a dedicated taxing mechanism. A Milken Institute event on PACE financing described it in more detail: In the …
Michael Giberson In advance of the screening next week at SXSW, the Austin Chronicle presents a story about Haynesville and its director Gregory Kallenberg. Here’s a bit of it: The Rev. Reegis Richard was wandering through a field, hungrily eyeing a dilapidated former school and dreaming of the possibilities, when a Haynesville producer climbed over a …
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