Digital technology is the representation of information in bits. This technology has reduced
the cost of storage, computation, and transmission of data. Research on digital economics …

Data are invaluable. How can we assess the value of data objectively, systematically and
quantitatively? Pricing data, or information goods in general, has been studied and practiced …

This article summarizes and draws connections among diverse streams of theoretical and
empirical research on the economics of privacy. We focus on the economic value and …

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems will increasingly be used to cause harm as they grow more
capable. In fact, AI systems are already starting to be used to automate fraudulent activities …

We develop an economic perspective on algorithmic fairness. Algorithmic bias and fairness
issues are appearing in an increasing variety of economic research literatures. Our …

In the past year, a new spamming scheme has emerged: sexual extortion messages
requiring payments in the cryptocurrency Bitcoin, also known as sextortion. This scheme …

The Internet has become a minefield of crime, fakes, and terror perpetuated by anonymous
users on a global scale. The security burden of protecting organizations is becoming …

There is a continuous increase in the sophistication that modern malware exercise in order
to bypass the deployed security mechanisms. A typical approach to evade the identification …

Begin with a tale of two specters. The first invaded the computer systems of the Dalai Lama
in Dharamsala, India, sometime in 2008.1 As the leader of Tibet's government in exile, the …

NewsCATS is an automated text categorization (ATC) prototype using a hand-made
thesaurus to forecast intraday stock price trends from information contained in press …