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Accelerating economic research at UBC with high performance computing using RONIN and AWS

AWS Public Sector Blog

Speeding time to high performance computing research with RONIN and AWS In 2017, Leyton-Brown and Newman returned to the FCC auction design to assess its strength and weaknesses, in part because of new publicly available data about how TV broadcast and wireless carrier bidders responded to the novel auction design.

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Learning what not to do from the New England Patriots football team

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

There are tons of "leadership books" and seminars and articles about leadership lessons from sports team coaches. Before I came up with the Transformational Projects Action Planning approach (" Why can't the "Bilbao Effect" be reproduced? It was an important lesson to me about not learning the wrong lesson from success.

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