Algorithmic incentives: New twist on 30 year-old work could lead to better ways of structuring contracts
Wednesday, April 25, 2012 - 05:00
in Mathematics & Economics
In 1993, MIT cryptography researchers Shafi Goldwasser and Silvio Micali shared in the first Gödel Prize for theoretical computer science for their work on interactive proofs a type of mathematical game in which a player attempts to extract reliable information from an unreliable interlocutor.