Books

• Modeling with Data Princeton University Press, Forthcoming in early 2008 PDF, web site
• Math You Can't Use: patents, copyright, and software Brookings Institution Press, November 2005. Chapter 1 PDF, Chapter 6 PDF, Buy!

Papers

• Finding optimal agent-based models, Center on Social and Economic Dynamics Working Paper #49. SSRN page
• A genome-wide association study implicates diacylglycerol kinase eta (DGKH) and several other genes in the etiology of bipolar disorder, by AE Baum, N Akula, M Cabanero, I Cardona, W Corona, B Klemens, TG Schulze, S Cichon, M Rietschel, MM Nathen, A Georgi, J Schumacher, M Schwarz, R Abou Jamra, S Hofels, P Propping, J Satagopan, NIMH Genetics Initiative Bipolar Disorder Consortium, SD Detera-Wadleigh, J Hardy, and FJ McMahon. Molecular Psychiatry, 2008 (13:2), pp 197-207. Link
• An Efficient Network Generation Method: Interpersonal Networks and the Distribution of Links, December 2005. PDF, SSRN page
• A model of trials and causal stories, May 2005. PDF
• Preferences with a social component, July 2003. PDF
• Dissertation: information aggregation, May 2003. PDF
• When do ordered priors induce ordered posteriors?, September 2002. PDF
• A simulation of information provision by the media, September 2002. PDF

Policy papers

• "U.S. expanding the law - domestic and foreign - to benefit corporations", San Fransisco Chronicle, 17 February 2008, p E5 Link
• "The Rise of the Information Processing patent", Boston University Journal of Science and Technology Law, 14:1, pp 1--37. local PDF PDF@BU SSRN page
• "U.S. Patent Imperialism Hurts American Interests", Washington Post online, 25 August 2006. Link
• "Net neutrality fosters competition between technologies", 17 August 2006. Op-ed distributed by Scripps-Howard News Service
• "The Supreme Court's Patent Trilogy: An Analysis", May 2006. Brooking op-ed
• "The Gravity of the U.S. Patent Swindle" Wall Street Journal, 25 March 2006, p A9.Link
• "New Legal Code", IEEE Spectrum, August 2005, pp 60-62. Link
• "Software Patents Don't Compute", IEEE Spectrum, July 2005, pp 56-59. Link
• "The computer-shaped hole in the patent reform act", July 2005. Brooking op-ed
• Shadowing Bush, November 2004. Brookings op-ed
• Social norms and voter turnout, January 2004. Brookings op-ed
• A guide to the World Bank, IMF, and WTO, November 2002. PDF

Programs

• Apophenia: a library of statistics functions, focusing on maximum likelihood estimation. Ongoing Link
• Writing appendices in LaTeX: a short macro package for writing theorems in a manner that facilitates moving proofs to an appendix. [Also available from the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN).]
• An agent-based model of migration and demography: code base available upon request.

Live events

• Interview by David Levine on Stanford Radio's Hearsay Culture, 10 August 2007. MP3
• Panelist: Tech Policy Week, 5 May 2007. link
• Poster: DNA Pooling for Whole-Genome Association Studies with Illumina Infinium Assays, by Amber E. Baum, Nirmala Akula, Ben Klemens, Imer Cardona, Winston Corona, Andrew Singleton, John Hardy, Sevilla Detera-Wadleigh, Francis J. McMahon October 2006 PPT, PDF
• The Kojo Nnamdi Show: "The Legal Battle over Software" (National Public Radio discussion) January 2006 info, MP3
• Producer and moderator for "Software and Law: Is Regulation Fostering or Inhibiting Innovation?" (Brookings panel) December 2005 transcript
• Taught graduate class on networks and information (Johns Hopkins Econ dept) Feb-May 2005 reading list and notes

Fun

• Cowsweeper: a variant of Minesweeper, which can be played online (if you are using a Java-enabled browser) or be downloaded and played on a PalmOS device. [Available from many other sources.]
• Why the kurtosis of a N(0,1) is three, February, 2003. PDF