State department to hire science adviser

Learning to Hire Teams

Crowdsourcing and human computation are being employed in sophisticated projects that require the solution of a heterogeneous set of tasks. We explore the challenge of composing or hiring an effective team from an available pool of applicants for performing tasks required for such projects on an ongoing basis. How can one optimally spend budget to learn the expertise of workers as part of recru...

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White House. President's new adviser ready to put science in its place.

After a long vacancy, the nation's top science job may be filled by fall. President George W. Bush last week chose John H. Marburger III, a 60-year-old physicist, former university president, and current national lab chief, as his nominee for the post. Marburger vows to bring scientific rigor to the Administration's decisions but warns that he will be just one of many voices offering advice on ...

Why firms refuse to hire underbidders

A prominent theory of wage rigidity claims that a social norm against underbidding may prevent wages from falling to market clearing levels. This social norm may therefore cause downwardly rigid wages and involuntary unemployment. Recently performed questionnaire studies have thrown doubt on the conjecture that there is a social norm against underbidding. In this paper we experimentally show th...

University/Industry Relationships at San Jose State University to Produce Industry?s Ideal New Hire

In this paper, we describe the ideal traits of a new hire in the IC field and the various university/industry relationships that we use to educate our students. We describe briefly a sequence of courses used to give students practical design experience on campus. 1. Characteristics The general traits that faculty members believe are important for students to have are summarized in Table 1. Pane...