Notes and Slides from Talks

Talks from 2001-2000

I've been giving so many talks in in the last two years that I've fallen behind in documenting them. I'll try to fix this soon at least by providing a list.

Here's a recent interview for an economics class in RealVideo.

Talks from 1999

Estimating the Demand for Bandwidth, MIT Workshop on Internet Service Quality Economics, Dec 2-3, 1999. [PDF slides] [PDF paper] [HTML paper]
Five Forces in the Network Economy, UW-CSE Distinguished Lecturer Series 1999-2000, Oct 7, 1999. [More information]
Economics and search, SIGIR, August 16, 1999. [PPT] [PDF]
Estimating the demand for bandwidth, August 5, 1999. [PDF]
INDEX: a status report, May 1999 [PDF]
New Forms of Scholarly Communication, La Jolla, February 1999 [PowerPoint]

Talks from 1998

Networks and Standards, CardTech, San Jose, December 1998 [PDF of slides]
Interconnection and QoS, London, December 3, 1998 [PDF of slides]
Economics of Computer Security. [PDF of slides]
Brookings conference on IT and Finance, October 22, 1998. [PDF of slides] [PDF of paper]
"Berkeley's INDEX project", Wireless Data Forum, October 12, 1998, Las Vegas. [PDF]. Also see the Wireless Data Forum events page for a streaming RealVideo of the talk.
"Interconnection", Vortex98, Laguna Niguel, May 22. [PowerPoint] [PostScript] [PDF]

Talks from 1997

New Tools for Knowledge Management American Express DSS Meeting, Phoenix, Nov 5, 1997.
Pricing Information, CamCon 97, Camden, Maine, October 25, 1997
Internet Economics, UC Berkeley, Sept 1997
Local Exchange Congestion due to Internet Service Providers, UC Berkeley, March 7, 1997
Internet economics, MIT, January 22

Talks from 1996

General talks

Overview of School of Information Management and Systems (SIMS)
Video of "Economics of Searching" keynote at 1997 "Internet Catalogers Workshop" (RealPlayer required)

Talks from 1995 and earlier

Hal R. Varian <hal@sims.berkeley.edu>