Robin Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. He is known as an expert on idea futures markets and was involved in the creation of the Foresight Exchange and DARPA's FutureMAP project. Hanson has expressed great disappointment in the cancellation of the FutureMAP project, and he attributes this to the controversy surrounding the related Total Information Awareness program. A professor giving a lecture The meaning of the word professor (Latin: one who claims publicly to be an expert) varies. ... Face-to-face trading interactions among on the New York Stock Exchange trading floor Economics, as a social science, studies the production, distribution, and consumption of commodities. ... George Mason University, GMU, or Mason is a Public University in the United States. ... Also known as information markets, idea futures, and virtual stock markets. ... The Foresight Exchange is an online futures market game in which players attempt to gain a high score by accurately predicting the future. ... The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technology for use by the military. ... The Policy Analysis Market (PAM) was a proposed futures exchange developed by the United States Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and based on an idea first proposed by Net Exchange[1], a San Diego research firm specializing in the development of online markets. ... The Information Awareness Office is a branch of the United States Department of Defenses Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. ...

Hanson has received publicity in many mainstream publications such as the New York Times. A 2003 article in Fortune examined Hanson's work, revealing, among other things, that he is a believer in cryonics, his ideas have found some acceptance among extropians on the Internet, and he was motivated to seek his doctorate so that his theories would gain more widestream appeal. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ... Fortune magazine is Americas longest-running business magazine. ... Cryonics (often mistakenly called cryogenics) is the practice of cryopreserving humans or animals that can no longer be sustained by contemporary medicine until resuscitation may be possible in the future. ... Extropianism, also reffered to as extropy, is a transhumanist philosophy characterized by a set of principles regarding extropy, defined by Dr. Max More in The Principles of Extropy. ...

Hanson received a B.S. in physics from the University of California, Irvine in 1981, an M.S. in physics and an M.A. in Conceptual Foundations of Science from the University of Chicago in 1984, and a Ph.D. in social science from Caltech in 1997. Physics (from the Greek, (phúsis), nature and (phusiké), knowledge of nature) is the science concerned with the discovery and understanding of the fundamental laws which govern matter, energy, space and time. ... The University of California, Irvine is a public research university primarily situated in suburban Irvine, California; a significant portion of the campus falls into the neighboring community of Newport Beach. ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. ... 1984 (MCMLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The social sciences are groups of academic disciplines that study the human aspects of the world. ... California Institute of Technology The California Institute of Technology (commonly known as Caltech) is a private, coeducational university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

References

• GMU Page
• Kahn, Jeremy. (September 15, 2003). "The Man Who Would Have Us Bet On Terrorism — Not to Mention Discard Democracy and Cryogenically Freeze Our Heads — May Have a Point (About The Betting, We Mean)". Fortune, p179.

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External links

• The Man Who Would Have Us Bet on Terrorism (Fortune Magazine, September 2003)
• NoDoom - Dr Hanson's critique of the Doomsday argument