Re: [Swarmfest2007] Banquet speaker

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Randy wrote:
> One suggestion for a speaker might be someone, to be determined, to speak
> about the  "crowdsourcing" phenomenon 
Econophysics people might have interesting simulations here..   
Crowdsourcing, being a market, will have familiar issues as any other 
with regard to price formation and liquidity. 

Roger wrote:
> the Innocentive concept is
> about real swarms made of people, not simulated ones, but I expect the
> Swarm audience would be interested.
While we're at it, invite some people that teach cybernetics and control 
theory, since it's just been rediscovered.  :-)

Another audience to draw upon to think about related issues is the 
online gaming community.   Here we have lots of people that could be 
easily co-exist with computerized proxy agents acting on behalf of 
scientists.   Sociologists can now peturb a social system and see how it 
reacts...