Magazine: Spring 2011 | Volume 17, No. 3
It’s been one year since we redesigned and renamed the magazine. Since then we’ve introduced you to new faces,published useful tutorials, and covered a range of topics from interactivity to parallel programming. In this issue we turn to the future of banking, currency and e-commerce—as technology evolves so will our relationship with money. Thanks to our Editors for putting together another great issue.
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SECTION: Features
Why I don't rob banks for a living
Can game theory 'prove' that online robbery is irrational?
By Nicole Immorlica
What can gold farmers teach us about criminal networks?
By observing how covert financial networks operate in online games like World of Warcraft, we can learn about how they might function offline.
By Brian Keegan, Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad, Dmitri Williams, Jaideep Srivastava, Noshir Contractor
Catching bad guys with graph mining
Suspicious network patterns may be the key to detecting criminals and fraudsters on e-commerce sites.
By Polo Chau
The 'Internet of Things' and commerce
Everything, everywhere, tagged and tracked. How can this data be harnessed to deliver better products and services?
By Mark Harrison
The problem of money as a measuring stick
A more accurate measuring instrument may be found in stable money baskets built by computers and mathematics.
By Nikolai V. Hovanov, James W. Kolari, Mikhail V. Sokolov
An interview with Greg Schwartz
The CIO of USAA, a full-service, branchless financial services operation, sees much more to banking than e-transactions.
By James Stanier
