[107365] in Cypherpunks
of interest?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Tue Jan 12 21:13:40 1999
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:00:51 -0500
To: dcsb@ai.mit.edu, Digital Bearer Settlement List <dbs@philodox.com>,
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Reply-To: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
Modigliani has a Nobel in (financial) economics, I believe...
Cheers,
Robert Hettinga
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 22:39:39 +0100 (MET)
From: Ray Hirschfeld <R.Hirschfeld@cwi.nl>
To: rah@shipwright.com
Subject: of interest?
Reply-to: ray@unipay.nl
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:32:12 -0500 (EST)
From: Andrew Lo <alo@ai.mit.edu>
To: all-ai@ai.mit.edu
Subject: IAP Financial Engineering Minicourse
F I N A N C I A L P A T E N T S: P R O M O T I N G P R O G R E S S
I N F I N A N C I A L E N G I N E E R I N G
IAP 1999 MINICOURSE
Tuesday through Friday, January 19 through 22
2:00 to 3:30, Room 66-110
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Join Professors Franco Modigliani, Andrew Lo, Jeff Meldman, financial
practitioner Francis Vitagliano, and patent attorney James Bollinger for an
exciting exploration of Wall Street's hottest new phenomenon--Financial
Patents! The four sessions in this series will feature:
Tuesday, Jan. 19: an overview of U.S. patent law, including
the patentability of software.
Wednesday, Jan. 20: an introduction to finance and financial
engineering.
Thursday, Jan. 21: a class on the specifics of financial patents.
Friday, Jan. 22: a discussion with Professor Modigliani and
Mr. Vitagliano about their experiences in
obtaining a patent on their own financial invention.
The content of this series will be aimed at undergraduates, graduate
students, faculty, and staff who are interested in the role financial
patents currently play in the financial system, and what role they will
play in the near future. No previous knowledge about patent law or finance
is required.
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
