Predictioneer: How to predict the future with game-theory. Department of Management public lecture. Speaker(s): Professor Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | talks. Professor Richard Steinberg | talks. Date and Time: 21 October 2009 at 6:30 pm.
Others – devotees of game theory, for instance – look for something a little more scientific. Like Bruce Bueno de Mesquita’s book, the Predictioneer’s Game. The author, a professor of politics at New York University has built a
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita has a new book coming out for a popular audience, The Predictioneer's Game , and Clive Thompson of the New York Times visits him to ask, Can game theory predict when Iran will get the Bomb? A tall man with a slab of gray hair, Then he pulled out his beat-up I.B.M. laptop — so old that the lettering on the A, S, D and E keys was worn off — and showed me a spreadsheet that summarized Iran's future. The spreadsheet included almost 90 players.

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