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Robin HansonPh.D., Author, Prof., Economics, George Mason U; Fellow, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford

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**Robin Dale Hanson** is an associate [professor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professor "Professor") of [economics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics "Economics") at [George Mason University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Mason_University "George Mason University") and a research associate at the [Future of Humanity Institute](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_Humanity_Institute "Future of Humanity Institute") of [Oxford University](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_University "Oxford University"). He is known as an expert on [idea futures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idea_future "Idea future") and markets, and he was involved in the creation of the [Foresight Exchange](http://www.ideosphere.com/) and [DARPA’s FutureMAP](http://infowar.net/tia/www.darpa.mil/iao/FutureMap.htm) project. He invented market scoring rules like LMSR (Logarithmic Market Scoring Rule) used by [prediction markets](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market "Prediction market") such as [Consensus Point](http://www.consensuspoint.com/) (where Hanson is Chief Scientist), and has conducted research on [signaling](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_(economics) "Signalling (economics)").

Hanson received a [B.S.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Science "Bachelor of Science") in [physics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics "Physics") from the [University of California, Irvine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Irvine "University of California, Irvine") in 1981, an [M.S.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Science "Master of Science") in physics and an [M.A.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_of_Arts "Master of Arts") in Conceptual Foundations of Science from the [University of Chicago](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Chicago "University of Chicago") in 1984, and a [Ph.D.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ph.D. "Ph.D.") in [social science](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science "Social science") from [Caltech](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caltech "Caltech") in 1997 for thesis titled _Four puzzles in information and politics: Product bans, informed voters, social insurance, and persistent disagreement_. Before getting his Ph.D he researched [artificial intelligence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence "Artificial intelligence"), [Bayesian statistics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_statistics "Bayesian statistics") and [hypertext]

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