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Take Part in the Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference (IVA) 2011

The IVA 2011 annual conference will be hosted by Reykjavik University in Iceland, from September 15 – 17, 2011. IIIM lends its support as an official sponsor of IVA ’11, with the Institute’s CEO Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson and Associate Director Dr. Stacy Marsella residing as two of the conferences’ chairs.  Continue reading Take Part in the Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference (IVA) 2011

Download “What are the Limits on Commercial Bank Lending?” by Jacky Mallett

Now available for download – a technical report written by Jacky Mallett, affiliate researcher of IIIM. Title of the paper is “What are the Limits on Commercial Bank Lending?”. Preprint submitted to Elsevier, September 20th, 2010.

The report presents a controversial theory, with backing evidence, about the cause of the financial crash in 2008, and why it will probably happen again soon. It took a computer scientist, with an eye on algorithms, to crack what many economists failed to understand. See download link and abstract below.
Continue reading Download “What are the Limits on Commercial Bank Lending?” by Jacky Mallett