In my spare time I take photos, travel the world, hike, bike, and ski, post on Facebook, and play with my greyhound.
Research interests
“Welcome to the age of the crowd. Just as distributed computing projects like UC Berkeley’s SETI@home have tapped the unused processing power of millions of individual computers, so distributed labor networks are using the Internet to exploit the spare processing power of millions of human brains.”Howe, Jeff (June 2006). The Rise of Crowdsourcing. Wired Magazine, Issue 14.06
I do research at the intersection of information systems, strategy, and economics. My work falls into two broad categories related to network and participatory economies (crowdsourcing), and prediction markets.
You can find a complete list of papers here.
What’s new
- August 24, 2010: I will present the paper Crowdfunding the next hit: Microfunding online experience goods at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in Austin TX in November 2010.
- Dec. 14, 2009: I presented a paper on project management for innovative software projects at IRWITPM 2009 in conjunction with ICIS’09 in Phoenix, AZ. Slides here (PDF).
- Oct. 14, 2009: We gave a talk on crowdsourcing at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Diego, CA. Slides here (PDF).
Education
| PhD student in Information Systems (minor in Economics) The University of Utah |
Expected May 2012 |
| MS in Management Information Systems California State University, Sacramento |
May 2008 |
| BA in Economics Virginia Tech |
May 2004 |
Let's think about crowdfunding for a minute. 
