• Name: Rick Wash
• Email: rwash@umich.edu
• URL: http://www-personal.si.umich.edu/~rwash/
• CV: PDF, HTML

I am currently a doctoral student in the School of Information at the University of Michigan, studying information economics and incentive centered design under Professor Jeff MacKie-Mason.

Current Projects

• Home User Security, understanding and design
• Del.icio.us and incentives for collaborative filtering
• Incentives for Information Security Professionals and Users

Working Papers

• A Short Paper that studies what influences how users choose tags on del.icio.us.
• An extended abstract on DRM and content creation incentives.

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• RickWashSchedule -- My research plans for the near future

Conferences

Here is some conference / deadline information for places I am interested in.

• 19 May 2006 - SOUPS 2006 poster submission deadline
• 11 Jun 2006 - 15 Jun 2006 - ACM EC-06 conference (in Ann Arbor)
• 26 Jun 2006 - 28 Jun 2006 - WEIS 2006 conference (in Cambridge)
• 4 Jul 2006 - 7 Jul 2006 - Incentive-Based Computing Workshop, Lisboa, Portugal
• 12 Jul 2006 - 14 Jul 2006 - SOUPS 2006 conference (Pittsburgh, PA)
• 31 Jul 2006 - HotSec 06 Workshop, Vancouver, Canada
• 29 Sep 2006 - 1 Oct 2006 - TPRC 2006, Arlington, VA

Old Stuff

• Digital Rights Management and Incentives for Concent Creation
• RideNow^? - Ride Sharing for the SI Community
  • ConventionsInterfaces are some examples of interfaces that support convention formation

• Field Prelim on the economics of information security
  • EconSec - Economics of Information Security. The working version of my understanding of this field.
  • EconSecBibliography - My prelim reading list. A set of interesting and important papers
  • RickWashFieldPrelim - Information about my field prelim exam at SI

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Feel free to leave me a comment!

%COMMENT%-- (RW) - 18 Aug 2005
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