I’m more than happy to share with you that the Course via Blog has matured into a solid start-up. DataMine.it MineKnowledge that is and our offering regards -you guessed that right- data mining services. We put great effort on adding value to AI algorithms by spicing them up with our very human expertise, while trying …
I gave an introductory lecture on prediction markets earlier today, in the context of a undergraduate course in Logistics at NTUA’s School of Mechanical Engineering. The feedback and responses on running some hands-on experiments (you can guess the software) were really great, I expect that this will be repeated in a few days when I’m …
He who writes a lot, has little to say.from a discussion with Professor George Cosmetatos, member of my PhD thesis committee, on the extent of my dissertation
A couple of days ago, George Kasselakis, Dimitris Athanasiadis and I had the privilege to lead a discussion at the Stream08 unconferene. Together with Jennifer Schenker of BusinessWeek, we attempted -quite successfully!- to trigger the conversation about innovation in Europe, trying to figure out some best practices for enabling entrepreneurship excellence. The presentation is embedded …
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an interview of mine appeared yesterday in V-Men magazine, distributed with the sunday edition of daily newspaper To Vima and claiming a circulation of .475M (full text is here, in greek).
The show has moved to the tech start-up scene.Attending SIME Helsinki, the semantics of location just made this clear to me…
I attach the presentation file, full paper and abstract of the work I presented earlier today at APMS 2008, here in beautiful Espoo, Finland. Your comments are welcome. Market Drive Innovation Management, from the inside in View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: tziralis predictionmarkets) abstract: Modern enterprises and organizations seem like market-agnostic, semi-permeable bubbles, in …
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Have you ever realized how many times you use Google search every single day? No? Get prepared to be amazed if you navigate to Google web history and click on ‘trends’. In my account, for example, Google has already tracked 23,025 searches, an average of about 45 queries per day. Sounds like a lot, right? …
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We just added another option –facebook connect that is- to let practically anyone get into and take a look at our pride and joy, askmarkets. So, by now you can navigate to askmarkets.com, press the facebook button, enter your facebook credentials and -boom- you’re in, go trade, spread the word and let us know what …
I was honored enough to be quoted among the former ATHOC President Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki and the former Mayor of Athens and current Minister of Foreign Affairs Dora Bakoyannis, in a today’s article of the much respected Chicago Tribune, regarding the post-Games Athens (update: the article actually appeared at the newspaper’s front page). To give you some …
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